Multi-media/Taxonomy

Reflection on Multi-media

The PowerPoint presentation it is always exciting for both teacher and student, it is raise a better point the view in both cases. I believe specially because of the visual and organization aspect.
For teachers, PowerPoint is a great instrument that allows teachers be creative, using different types of technique that will help all kind the learners. I also believe that promote a more organized lecture, and gives freedom to teachers to make a more personal connection if necessary.
For students, PowerPoint is visually exiting and promotes organization of thoughts and notes. It also promotes focus on the subject matter and promotes visual understanding. PowerPoint promotes knowledge in a dynamic an interactive way and can be use in many different situations to help with any kind of instruction.

Taxonomy

Taxonomy is a classification of levels of intellectual behavior. It develops high level of thought process to everyday reading process.
The process is developed by asking questions from the reading material. These questions are divided in several different categories like as: Knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
Knowledge: the recall of specific information.
Comprehension: an understanding of what was read.
Application: the converting of abstract content to a concrete situation.
Analysis: the comparison and contrast of the content to personal experiences.
Synthesis: the organization of thoughts, ideas and information from the content.
Evaluation: the judgment and evaluation of characters, actions, outcome, etc., for personal reflection and understanding.

Mapping Student Minds

In the article "Mapping Student Minds" by Ariel Owen, the author makes a statement that casual mapping tool helps students thinking without even knowing. The students will make a cause and effect relationship data that will promote knowledge in an invisible way. This tool facilitates a critical thinking development. What the casual mapping does is analyzing relationships between objects or data. Also promotes a group work, share information and discussion. It is a dynamic activity with a great learning process. It is a very easy to make correction and add data, which brings new insights to the process and a more precise result. To me is a great tool, almost like a brainstorm, but with the advantage that analyzes relationship between the objects. To a cognitive learner is definitely a great tool to make the learning process interesting and enjoyable. I would like to use this kind of educative tool into my classroom if a have the opportunity. I believe it is very instructive especially for boys, who like to see things in a more logical perspective as cause and effect.

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

- Albert Einstein

Thecnology has affected our lives

As state in the article Oh, the Change We've seen by Maureen Yoder, "Piaget believe in children as builders of their own intellectual models. As teachers, we are in position to help children build them... using technology," (M. Yoder, 17) this quote is so true. Children definitely are builders; they build their intelligence collecting experiences through out their lives. As teacher we should help them build it, but for a real understanding a personal experience is necessary. Integrating computer to the classroom is definitely a solution to expand the children experiences. I remember when I was in elementary and middle school. Teachers used to bring small magazine’s pictures to inspire us to write a paper, we normally have to share these pictures with our entire class. Today, teachers can find millions of pictures in the Internet, about any subject and display on the classroom projector. Everyone can have access to the image at the same time. We can even share our ideas about and promote a discussion, and make comparison. The time we save, and the growth of knowledge are amazing. We can become expert about anything that happens in the world. Technology creates geographic closeness, which make us world citizens. We are part of a must large community, and have the obligation to collect data about this world society that we live in. Children definitely are open to consume all this information, which improve their critical thinking. This week, I have to say that I learned a lot about Rubric. This is a very exciting theme, I was looking forward for that I always want to learn to create an assignment rubric. It will be very useful in my future. I plan to use rubric for most of my assignment in the classroom. We also were able to create a newsletter, which was so much fun work. I loved, I went home after school and I could not stop work in this project, until I had done.
I have to finalizing saying that it was a very fun week in the Educ. 422.


“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!”

- Annie Sullivan,
Teacher of Helen Keller

The knoledge of the second week.

This week I have to say that I learned a lot about bookmark. I knew some about it, but I never was interesting. I’m so used to add all my useful links to my favorites and every few months I clean everything I do not use for while, that was my organization system. The lecture was extensive, I enjoy WWW explanation, I had some knowledge about and I also use it in the regular basis. Another point of the lecture that I appeciated was all the benefits that technology can bring to the lesson plan and to the curriculum that was great, very insightful and well needed. About “Internet Etiquette” the explanation that the professor gave to us, I thought that was great. Such a powerful remind of all the things we should not be doing online, specially if we want to became teachers and we will be observed by many, and any non-professional attitude we put online can be drastically damage to us. The article and the quiz about etiquette were perfect and a wonderful complement to the lecture, I’m sure I will pay much more attention to it. About the last article called Teaching for Understanding, Also was a great complement to the lecture, the article was very well written and very easy to understanding. The article is an illustration how technology is a powerful intellectual tool that improve pedagogy and understanding. The article also states that the use of educational technology promotes collect and analyze data, and problem solving skills. Another use to educational technology is to access students prior knowledge, which is very useful to determinate the student intellectual level and expectations. In conclusion, technology is an essential tool for teacher and for the school system to create a better understanding.