Grabe Post

#1 What is the Big Six and how should it be used?

Well the big six are: Task definition, Information Seeking, Locating and Accessing, Use of Information, Organize and Communicate, and Evaluation.

How they should be use is in order for one thing (it makes it much easier). Grabe talks about this six skill and their relationship with the internet. With task definition you really should decide what you need to know before you start your internet adventures. You really start this "adventure" with information seeking, students really need to be familiar with internet sources to be able to seek information using them. With locating and accessing Grabe mentions scaffolding and integrating skills into authentic tasks. He talks about how to use each skill with the internet and emphasizing you should teach your students how to use the internet and how to use it in a academically beneficial way.

As with an source the information on the Internet needs to be processes and then used according to the problem solving task or assignment. Critical thinking skills come into play here, what is important and what is not.

The last of the six is evaluation which I believe to be the most important really. As the rest are important as well evaluation is the task were you make sure all of your sources are correct and the information is as well.

The big six can be used in things such as research papers and assignments such as photo stories. These skills should be taught and used with teacher support so the students learn and engage in the activity with the proper academic outlook.

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Harris Post

#1 Harris (1998) lists eighteen activity structures for Internet projects as well as numerous examples. Are these learning projects prevalent in today's classrooms? Why or Why not?

I read 'An Illusory Dilemma...' and it groups the eighteen activity structures for Internet Projects into three categories, Interpersonal exchanges, Information Collection and Analysis and Problem Solving activities. These to me sound like skills that teachers want their students to learn. The Internet is a vast resource to teach these skills. These 18 activity structures for Internet Projects are absolutely prevalent to today's classrooms. The Internet is here to stay and we should take advantage of it capablity of being a great learning tool and catalyst. Of course like any learning it should be monitored because of some content found on the web, but if the instructor prepares for the lesson and shows the students how to use the Internet as a learning resource it can and will be productive.

PODCAST

So my podcast will be posted soon, I just got access to Gabcast today! Yeah!
I should have it up in the next day or two.

Photo Story 3 Project

CPB Post

#2 How can teachers use video to promote student achievement?

Teachers should select a relavent video and watch it before showing it to their class. The teacher needs to be prepare with a post video activity(s) so to allow the students to get the most out of the video. More students will benefit from watching and hearing the lesson. Visual learners will be able to work and understand the material better and then auditory learner will still be able to function in a learning capacity. Those students that fall in the middle will be better suited to learn also with the choices between visual and audio. As we discussed in class students when they hear and see tend to retain 50% of the material as where just to listen is 20% and to see is 30%. Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory is a supporter of the use of video in the classroom and video helps you "accommodate" Gardner's theory as the article states. The more I think the more I will write.

Reiser Post

Ok so I read the article and I think that TEAMS is a wonderful idea. It will take sometime to put together units with other teachers but I also think that it is worth it. One problem I did see is lining up all the curriculum in the different areas all year. I may no be able to go through all of my core curriculum in Social Studies if I am trying to relate my units to other disciplines. I think that TEAMS is great but should not be used all year, but integrated throughout the year.

As for the lessons that we were to review that used the teams method, some where effective others didn't have enough material to explain the topic integrations. The lesson on classification confused me a lot. But ones like the Micro biology or healthy lifestyles gave me enough information to understand the topic and how it would be integrated.

I believe that the TEAMS method would be very effective if the teachers take time to put together the unit properly.

Podcast

I have to type this first because I can't get an account with gabcast for some reason.

I decided to look at the Digital Profile on S.R. Sidarth a senior at Univerisity of Virginia.

I hope you all read his profile. If you didn't quick points are that he is a double major in Engineering and Government. The biggest thing is that he worked for James Webb's 2006 senate campaign. His job was to monitor Webb's opponent George Allen.

I think its great that information about political figures is on the web. You just have to be careful as to where this information is and if it is credible. Which the information in this profile is credible its on tape and posted on you tube.

I would have never known that Senator George Allen was an idiot if I hadn't seen that you tube video!

He is a jerk to S.R. Sidarth in public and now it has been replayed again and again. Also it was published on the web by Time magazine.

So much information that is out on the web sometimes it is hard to put it all into focus. With students you will, I believe, have to give them a pathway or focus their eyes on what on the internet is worth having a look at.

Teacher Preview

So I really liked teacher preview night mainly because I love WiSHBONE, I am way excited about watching it. I am such a nerd.

Since I am a history teaching major so I thought The War, Athens: The Dawn of Democracy, The Long Walk, and African American Live.

Some others are Masterpiece Theatre and its on Jane Austen Novels! Yeah!

Secrets of the Dead and Secrets of Archology looked really interesting I think I will try to watch a couple episodes of those two.

The ones I for sure will watch are, The War, Masterpiece Theatre, Frontline, and Wishbone.

Kauchak Post

Hello All!

According to Kauchak (1998) what are three functions of teacher questions? What role does technology play with accomplishing these functions?

I when I started to read this article I was thinking "well no duh! You should always present questions to students." I am sure a lot of people thought that, but then I read more about how increased teacher questioning and how it POSSIBLY could have a correlation to increased student learning and it just made sense. I never knew how much you need to question your students. I think the article said that on average a teacher presented 2 questions a minute or something like that. I started to think about how many question I present during some of my lessons. Not enough!

The different functions for questions that Kauchak presents are assessing, increasing motivation, and guiding new learning were somewhat familar to me but I really never thought about how to structure those questions within my lessons properly. The guiding questions are my specialty I am really awful at using to many of those!

The process in which the students think about questions never really occured to me so the section on 'the student's perspective' helped me form ideas about how to help students that have misconceptions, by understanding how they got to their answer better.

All the definitions that Kauchak went through helped also so that I can have a checklist of sorts to make sure that I use all the strategies I can to effectively teach.

After I read this article I started to work on my powerpoint assignment and realized that by using powerpoint I could not only present the ideas to the students I could help myself remember how to question. I am a note person and if I were to use powerpoint in a lesson I can organize questions that I would like to go over with the students according to the powerpoint.

I believe the combination of the two, my notes on questions and the powerpoint will make my lessons, where I use powerpoint more effective for student learning.

I may add or change things in this post the more I think on it.

Roblyer Question #2

#2 What is the difference between acquiring knowledge and the employment of knowledge as described by Tennyson (1990) in the article?

Well from what I read in the Roblyer article the answer to this question is quite simple. The way Tennyson defines Acquiring Knowledge is the actual verbal transmission of facts and knowledge. Employment of Knowledge is in fact the skills, strategies and processes in which you learn from the knowledge or practice while learning. So in fact employment of knowledge is what you do with the acquired knowledge.

Introduction

Hello my name is Katherine Humphreys but I like to go by Katie. I grew up in Millville, which is in Cache Valley just south of Logan. Millville is a very small farm town, so I grew up on a small farm. When I say small we had 3 cows and a bunch of chickens.

I live in Salt Lake now and have for a little over 4 years. I moved here to go to the U. I started out as a Music Performance Major and then made several changes, among those were Music Ed, History, Art History and then finally History Teaching with an ESL minor.

I am still very involved in the Music Department here. I actually work there now, in the front office. I play in the Marching Band, this is my 5th year and until this year I was playing in the concert band also. Oh I play the Piccolo and Flute.

I like sports, Basketball and Baseball mainly and if the Utes are playing football. (Too bad we lost last night.)
Basketball I, of course, watch the Jazz even when they aren't doing so well. Baseball is a different story I usually will watch who ever is playing, my mom is a Yankees fan and my roommate/best friend is a Red Sox fan so it can get a bit awkward sometimes.

I decided to teach because of my mom. She is a Special Education Behavioral Coordinator for the Cache County School District and was for 10+ years in the classroom before that. I think that teachers are amazing and I want to be one. I want to teach 7th and 8th grade (I know I'm crazy!). I taught a 7th grade Utah Studies class last year and I loved it! The kids were great, even when I felt discouraged I never wanted to stop I just wanted to fix it.

I think that the technology that we will be learning about and using in this class will be a tremendously important in my classroom. Now history is at your fingertips, with computers and the Internet. There are new ways to understand history. I can't wait to learn new and different ways I can present history in a classroom.

Why Technology

The way we now live is so dependant upon technology that it makes no sense to leave it out of our classrooms. How many students use calculator functions, the phone, CELL PHONES!, Typing papers, researching on the Internet. If you were assigned to research on 18th century music style would you do it and do it well if you couldn't use the Internet or a computer at all? Probably not as well as you could using that technology.