In week 5, we learned about the importance of visual literacy. If someone were to take away our visual literacy, it would be very hard to recognize many of our favorite things such as restaurants and sports teams. Photographs are also a very important part of learning. It is necessary for students to study photographs, for they help emphasize past events. Last week in class we saw many known photographs and then saw how each of them was edited in order to change the way people would view the photograph. It is important for students to study photographs because it increases their observational skills and promotes critical thinking.
As a teacher, it is important to have students study history through photographs. However, the students must be taught that these photographs are edited by people who have certain opinions about the world. Teachers must let students know that what you is not always what you get. Also, as children are growing up their outside appearance becomes very important to them. They look in magazines and see the beautiful movie stars, and wish to look like them. These students do not realize that these pictures have been significantly edited and that these people do not actually look like that in real life. It is important for teachers to convey this point to their students. Self-esteem is very important for success and it is a teacher's job to help his or her students transform into confident adults.
Below is an article that further explains visual literacy and how it relates to students.
Visual Literacy and the Classroom
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Blog Entry 3: Web Resources, Multi-Media, and Hypermedia
In week 4 we learned about web resources, multi-media, and hypermedia. These three tools are very useful in the classroom. Web resources are instructional activities that can be accessed through the internet. They provide students with further instruction and are great because they cost the school no additional money. An example is Brain Pop, which provides web tutorials and instructional games. Multi-media is a program that contains a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, or video. Hypermedia is a program in which graphics, audio, video, plain text, and hyperlinks intertwine allowing a person to navigate through information in a non-linear fashion.
These tools will be very useful in the field of education. Web resources help teachers to provide information to students without having to continuously give oral instruction. Multi-media is very useful, for it caters to many different learning styles and promotes creative thinking amongst the students. Hypermedia has been shown to motivate students and help improve their writing skills. Since, I am going to be a teacher; I will certainly be using these educational tools in my classroom.
I had never truly understood hypermedia and multi-media. I am very excited that I now understand both and will be able to use them in my classroom when I become a teacher. Below is a video further explaining multi-media.
These tools will be very useful in the field of education. Web resources help teachers to provide information to students without having to continuously give oral instruction. Multi-media is very useful, for it caters to many different learning styles and promotes creative thinking amongst the students. Hypermedia has been shown to motivate students and help improve their writing skills. Since, I am going to be a teacher; I will certainly be using these educational tools in my classroom.
I had never truly understood hypermedia and multi-media. I am very excited that I now understand both and will be able to use them in my classroom when I become a teacher. Below is a video further explaining multi-media.
Blog Entry 2: Web 2.0
In week 3 we learned about web 2.0, which allows users to interact and exchange information with other users. Examples include blogs, wikis, social-networking sites, and video-sharing sites. Web 2.0 is the next phase of Web 1.0, which can be described as the time when the internet only allowed for the passive viewing of information. Web 2.0 helps many more people to become interactive by allowing people to post their own information. Posting information on the web used to be a very difficult task because it required one to know how to use complicated publishing tools. However, with the emergence of these easy-to-use websites anyone is able to share what they want with others.
Web 2.0 is very important in the field of education. I believe that interaction with one another is a great way for students to learn. Web 2.0 promotes group activities because it allows students to collaborate with one another even when not in the same place at the same time. I also like that my students will be able to communicate with each other easily, so that if any of the students are having difficulty with the course material, there will always be someone they can get in touch with to ask for help. Web 2.0 also offers websites that provide educational games. Students always enjoy learning more when they are having fun; therefore, this is definitely a tool I will be using when I become a teacher.
Below is a video explaining web 2.0 and how teachers can incorporate it into their classrooms.
Web 2.0 is very important in the field of education. I believe that interaction with one another is a great way for students to learn. Web 2.0 promotes group activities because it allows students to collaborate with one another even when not in the same place at the same time. I also like that my students will be able to communicate with each other easily, so that if any of the students are having difficulty with the course material, there will always be someone they can get in touch with to ask for help. Web 2.0 also offers websites that provide educational games. Students always enjoy learning more when they are having fun; therefore, this is definitely a tool I will be using when I become a teacher.
Below is a video explaining web 2.0 and how teachers can incorporate it into their classrooms.
Blog Entry 1: Educational Technology
In week 2 we learned about educational technology. There is no exact definition for educational technology because there are a variety of meanings for it. The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) stated "Educational Technology is the theory and practice of design, development, utilization, management, and the evolution of processes and resources for learning." Educational technology has changed significantly over the years. In the past it consisted of tape recorders and video cassette players. It provides students with job skills for the work place and is transforming traditional classrooms into blended environments, e.g. EME2040. There are many advantages to educational technology such as easy to access course materials. Educational technology is evolving every day and it is important to stay up to date with the new advances.
I am an education major and therefore educational technology will obviously be very important within my field of work. When I begin to teach, technology is going to be of even greater importance than it is today because there will be so many new developments. As a teacher, I am going to have to make sure that I stay up to date with every technological advance so I do not fall behind my students. Educational technology will be a major part of the classroom, for research suggests achievement is positively linked to technology use and increases student motivation.
I think it is really cool how much educational technology has changed. Below is a video that shows the evolution of educational technology over the past 100 years.
I am an education major and therefore educational technology will obviously be very important within my field of work. When I begin to teach, technology is going to be of even greater importance than it is today because there will be so many new developments. As a teacher, I am going to have to make sure that I stay up to date with every technological advance so I do not fall behind my students. Educational technology will be a major part of the classroom, for research suggests achievement is positively linked to technology use and increases student motivation.
I think it is really cool how much educational technology has changed. Below is a video that shows the evolution of educational technology over the past 100 years.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Copyright Law
Below is a video that explains copyright law and the fair use exemption. Copyright law gives rights to the creators of works so that nobody else can use it or reproduce it. The fair use exemption allows for copyrighted work to be used for educational purposes.
Within the field of education copyright law is less strict because of the fair use exemption. Teachers are allowed to use small segments of copyrighted material in order to help their students better understand certain topics. Copyright law is not nearly as big of a deal in the field of education as it is in other fields such as journalism and advertising. However, because the internet easily allows teachers access to so much information many tend to forget what is and is not legal. Therefore, teachers need to start being more careful. As a teacher, one is supposed to set an example for his or her students. No teacher would ever want a student to cheat, so each teacher should be aware of what is legal to use in the classroom.
Within the field of education copyright law is less strict because of the fair use exemption. Teachers are allowed to use small segments of copyrighted material in order to help their students better understand certain topics. Copyright law is not nearly as big of a deal in the field of education as it is in other fields such as journalism and advertising. However, because the internet easily allows teachers access to so much information many tend to forget what is and is not legal. Therefore, teachers need to start being more careful. As a teacher, one is supposed to set an example for his or her students. No teacher would ever want a student to cheat, so each teacher should be aware of what is legal to use in the classroom.
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