Reflection Post

        Now and days technology is a big thing in the education world. Teachers have to learn how to use Smart Boards, PowerPoint, websites, and lesson plans. EME 2040 (Introduction to Technology For Educators) is an excellent class to help future teachers have more knowledge about the technology use as a teacher. I have to say this class has been the most interesting out of all my other ones this semester.
       First thing is the textbook for this class. It is filled we a lot of information but some things that are in there are not. In Chapter 7 it was about gaming and it changed my mind about gaming. I have always thought that gaming can effect the student and as a teacher I did not my students to do it in school. But, now this chapter made me understand that some gaming can be very helpful. Each chapter that is this textbook calls for you to do a Digital Badge. All of the digital Badges are posted here http://katiebug120694.blogspot.com/ , my favorite one out of these is Digital Badge #D.  Because of these Digital Badges, it helped me figure out Prezi and Emaze more so I can use it for my students.
        For EME the discussion part was not my biggest fan. I look at the comments now and realize some things that I could have done differently. Replying to a classmate about there discussion was sometimes scare because you do not know the person and you do not want to hurt his or hers feelings. So that part I did not like to much but I still tried to complete the assignment.
      There was one assignment that I really liked and that was making a rubric. I thought this was an awesome assignment because teachers have to learn how to do a rubric the best that the can and it is not easy. I will admit that they are hard to do and I'm hoping they get easier as the years go bye.
      One thing that I loved about this class was there was no test and it was the best. But one thing that I would do differently would be changing the Digital Badge. We had the same assignment for Digital Badge for every chapter. I was hoping instead of three things that I would like to further learning about, it would be like three things you didn't like about this chapter or three things you liked about this chapter.
       On the Syllables there was learning outcomes and assessment. I think this class did COM, CT, TIM, and GSR. The one that we motley used because of  digital badge is critical thinking. Also, the learning outcomes shows seven different outcomes and they were all great ones. We did everyone one in this class and I did not realize we did all that.
       This was a really good class to take and I learned a lot. It helped to have a awesome teacher that was extremely helpful and if I needed to she would let me redo an assignment. I would highly recommend a person to take Mrs. Coleman's class. Thank you for everything.

Here is a link to a PowerPoint that I made https://onedrive.live.com/redir?page=view&resid=793ACE630EA54408!238&authkey=!AB9TL3blw5CoAhU

Digital Badge #L.

Digital Badge #J

Digital Badge #K

Digital Badge #I

Digital Badge H

Digital Badge #G I could not figure out how to embed my Canva slideshow. But, here is the link https://www.canva.com/design/DAA8SJUg7g4/Vsj22EFOgwAiTFTUBtGxlw/view

Digital Badge #F

Created with Padlet

Digital Badge #E

Digital Bandge #D

Digital Band C

Chapter 3

                                    Chapter 2

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Digital Badge A: Chapter One

                                                          Three Distinct Concepts

               After reading Chapter one, I have came up with three different distinct concepts. I would like to do some more research on these concepts: Technological pedagogical content knowledge(TPACK), Interactive,inquiry learning, and digital childhood. When I was reading Chapter one, these three concepts just interested me the most. I would like to know more. 

               TPACK, which stands for Technological pedagogical content knowledge, is about how teachers bring together things in a classroom. There are three different knowledge for this, which are Content knowledge, Pedagogical knowledge, and Technological knowledge. I have a lot of questions about TPACK. Some of my questions are why are these there the most important ones? Is this just for elementary school? Is there more knowledge for Life Skills classes?. 

               Another, distinct concept is highly, interactive, inquiry which is based on learning. Everyone learns differently and they organize differently. When a teacher goes to add new materials to his or hers website how do you know that it is organized just right for parents/kids? or are the materials easy to read and understand? I would like to understand what teachers do for this kind of issue. Plus, does the teacher make a special page or section for kids parents that do not know English?, this makes me wonder and I would like to do some more. research .

                Finally, kids and there digital childhoods. I believe that this is what effects children today. Its says in the textbook that "by 2010, over half of US children under age 5 were using some type of electronic learning toy". My questions are: is this making children learn faster or is it hurting them?, should there me a limit for the learning toys?, How does this help children?. 

                All three of these concepts make me wonder and makes me want to look into it. TPACK, highly interactive inquiry, and digital childhoods, I think, are good concepts. I am hoping to do some more research and have my questions answer before I become a Elementary School Teacher. I want to make sure my students and parents are satisfied with the things that I do.

     Resources:

Textbook - Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.