Blog Post #10

 What Can We Learn From Mrs. Cassidy?

I often look and ponder at today's learning technologies in the 21st Century in a new direction. How can I be an effective teacher using modern technology if it's constantly changing every moment?  Dr. Strange and students from EDM 310 interviewed with Mrs. Cassidy, a first grade who teacher introduces technology uses and tools as part of her classroom instruction. Students learn to read, write, and spell words on a Nintendo DS device. The responses from her students learning and filtering the instruction at home. I see the importance of using tools and building my personal learning network. Students learn to blog, improve writing, use audio and video to communicate with their parents, students, and other people who may visit their blog.  I liked the idea of sharing a teacher's web page can create and develop important tools and resources for students to enrich and explore at home.  Students learn how to make decisions using Twitter, Blogs, Skype, and "Class blog Mister".  I can learn from the students abilities on working on Wiki's how they develop writing skills and other online networks. What an idea to have a blog buddy to provide comments, editing ideas, and build a relationship. Students use a cluster map and they take comments and page reviews for granted.  This video shows many opportunities as a new teacher to use technology in all subject manners, centers, and independent practice, and especially collaborating ideas.

Mrs. Cassidy said it best "when using other students collaborative ideas on the internet it benefits the next person to transform the technology usage and interpret the best practice to teach someone help how to solve problems".  Mrs. Cassidy teaches the students the zones on surfing the computer to use the specific applications to learn and the other applications on the outside students will have to ask permission.  I like students can blog at least once a week.  Mrs. Cassidy shared how she adopted technology into the classroom understanding technology is evolving and it's here to stay.  Teachers should enable and accept the fact that technology is a learning tool for the students and to handicap them because the teacher doesn't want to change is not acceptable.  Students setup blogs as a portfolio.  This way the teacher and parent can time to time look at what the student is writing and creating periodically. Mrs. Cassidy teaches students to be safe on the internet and protect them from not using their own last name. It is a the job of the teacher to teach and protect her students using the internet.

Little Kids...Big Potential
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Interview: 13 Kathy Cassidy Part 2
Interview : Kathy Cassidy Part 3