TT 4

I am following the (https://precalculus11.wordpress.com) Kim’s grade 11 Pre-calculus blog. I think they have very good teacher circle because from that school most of teacher are use the blog for the students learning. I taught Grade-11 Pre-calculus in my fall practicum. So from this blog that I refresh my knowledge. I know that most of the students have very good knowledge about mathematics but every day they have stuck in some examples in that case if they have idea about the blog so they can share their thoughts and send message for help. In that any other students have same problem in that case teacher will get idea about that we need revise this topic or need more practice examples.

Here I liked that most of the parents asking about what’s the topic going on and they are asking about when the students test. These all types of the information that we get from the blog. And teacher has some relaxation about these types of the questions.

Students also refer the blog for study preparation because whatever going on the class that things teacher put on blog. Students also refer some other teacher blog and also from that they get idea.

I have also think about blog for my placement like same thing as we follow in internet for educator class. Teacher give assignment and students pick two to three example and solve and posted on blog as well as they have commented the other two examples. That way they have made their materials and that is helpful to exam preparation. Also students have knowledge than they will helpful in other subject. Because they have also start to follow the other teacher blog.

TT 12_The Future

Form the horizon report, I have got good infographic that we can make our model, what we can do as an educator for students’ learning and students’ engagement.

I liked this report that they mentioned clearly what we can do within 1 month to 5 years. They describe important developments in technology likely to have a large impact over coming five years for considering any angle of the earth. They also describe 18 topics related k-12 education like six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important development. We pick any one or two category and bring in our teaching that is best way. I talked to my CT and his said, first few year very difficult to integrate technology in subject. But he also said that technology is most important for all students for involvement and more fun way for learning.

Consumer technologies: We can use tool for recreational and professional purposes and quite adaptable for use in school. The consumer technologies like robotics, 3D video but it takes lot of time to make this type of the activity but it is worth it.

Digital strategies: We have lot of instructional strategies and we had to method class and we have experienced about that if we used this strategies that make students engagement. The age of 21^st  century that we use different devices so now time to use different learning strategies in that use of devices and software to enrich teaching and learning, whether inside or outside of the classroom. As strategies that we can use flipped classroom, bring your own device, Makerspaces. This all strategies that we can use easily.

Enabling technologies: This type of the learning that we need lot of information about different subject like artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Neural network, fuzzy logic etc. In all these subject the students also engage in the some hand on approach. In these type technologies that they also need some coding knowledge. Sometimes we have question that all thing to learn is very hard but I know one of my professor whose age was 55 years and he was learning this all type of the subject and also they guided us. Means if we have passion then we can do it.

Learning Strategies:  We can add information from different devices. We have got knowledge from our guest speaker. Most of the presentation are on the zoom so we get knowledge form the online. Also we have get knowledge via devices like mobile.

Social Media Technology: As well established as social media is, it continues to evolve at a rapid pace, with new ideas, tools, and development coming online constancy.

Visualization technology: We can do some infographic to complex forms of visuals of data analysis.

Finally, I read one newspaper cutting that Artificial Intelligence and Classrooms which I have attached here: Will It Help or Hurt?

The question of artificial intelligence in education is not really one of "if" but of "when." It is projected by The World Economic Forum that by 2020, at least 5 million jobs worldwide will be automated. With computers taking over more jobs, it is imperative that we become advanced at building and interacting with software tools. To this end, President Obama has made a conscious effort to incorporate computer science courses for all U.S. students. If humans are no longer doing the jobs, perhaps they can invent the technology that does. This tech literacy is vital to the future economy but the implications are a bit overwhelming if you really stop to think. 

While most of the education AI software is still in the development stages, advancing technology could drastically alter the landscape of how students learn. Will it end up improving classrooms and teaching methods? Or lower the standard of what is taught to our K-12 students?

Now we have duty to learn six stages and inspired to the students that they also joined in this type of the computer based learning.

TT_11_Kahoot!

This is very good tool for students and teacher, for business person. Teacher can use in asking question as an activation part and make Kahoot! for last part of the class to summarize the lesson. In this game students play independently as well as play as a team .This is very easy to make quizzes or discussion in kahoot , also engaging to the students very fun way. In my last two placement, I used Kahoot! and I would say that is fantastic way to revise your lesson. We could use Kahoot! during lesson and we can ask questions instead of asking traditional way of questions.

Kahoot is a game based classroom response tool. We have some time limits when we attain the quiz and we can see the score after every question. It is free tool. It has inbuilt very nice music so when quiz start we can enjoy when we attain it.

We can make our own account in kahoot! to make games, quiz. In account we can make your subject level quizzes and save that quiz and so any time we could play it. In question, character limit should be 95 words. And time limit is 1 to 120 seconds. 

For students, they don’t need any account for playing game. But they entered just pin number from the smartboard in their mobile or computers and start paying one by one questions. Answer is not display until all players are attended question and if time up then no one can attain it. Teacher has control on the questions means Teacher can stop game in the middle of the game.  

In this video, They gives all information about how do we create Kahoot!

https://www.youtube.com/watchv=XYgQ4EXJs3M&list=PLVpm5New2Rwh1Y_xw9eYSqykeUcXDYQ0&index=9

We can say that this is the best way to introduce the new topic by using create good questions. Teacher could be use this for formative assessment because Kahoot show the result after each questions and finally Kahoot shows points. If you think that your students need the same questions again then you will provide that. This way the students engage more in class. The other main point is you can pause each question and discuss with students and they lead the discussion. Answer of the question is another tool for collaborative work.

Collaborative Work

Students make their own Kahoot! and discuss with their friends which is also one of the way of collaborative work. There are so many ways to use Kahoot in our activity.

TT_8_PODCAST

I like to listen our spiritual talk everyday and I have exam for that on 5^th March and that about 5 hours’ exam. For this exam, books are available online as a PDF file and also recorded that books in someone’s voice and so we can listen those books on our spiritual website. I have spend my most of the time in the kitchen, at that time I listen that recorded books everyday and so I do not spend special time for book reading. I can remember more when I listen something and so when I making some food, travelling in bus then I always listen those books and that save my time.

I had never think about this podcast can be used in our classroom. This is amazing way to learn the subject topics. I read the biography of the Mr.Ghandhi (father of Nation of India), Mr. Kalam (was the President of India) ,they were used their time wisely and their philosophy is ‘Do not waste your time’. Today, I am thinking that our students can also save their time and make effort to achieve whatever their goal. In mathematics, they can record their voice to memorise the formula or steps for solving problem, in science or any other subject they can also record own voice for important topics or some theory. Then listen your recorded topic when we are free like in washroom, travelling, cooking time. Students get also opportunities to recorded their discussion and put on the school websites as per school rules.

As a teacher, our goal is to get maximum knowledge and update our information and lot of podcast available for teachers that they give information related our education. In classroom we also recorded our voice and summarise the lesson in 4 to 5-minute recording. In this method students cannot need more attention as we need in video because here we are listening not watching. In classroom we can use podcast in some activity like first students listen the podcast and in between that we can ask some questions and they can do discussion, also they can write summary on that podcast. I had one subject in my last semester, in that we had chance to listen one radio conversation and we had to write summary on that and that was our assignment which was awesome and different. 

First Podcast,

I have been listening the podcast of the Mathtrain.TV Podcast. This podcast is short like 3 to 4 minutes’ length but they have given all information related to mathematics. Like they are talking about the volume of the sphere and cylinder. They mentioned formula of the volume and how we can have used cylinder for finding volume of the sphere. Voice was very clear and make good pace for students to understand. 

Second one,

This is Mr. Barton Maths podcast. He is secondary school math teacher at Thronleigh Salesian college, in sunny Bolton, Lancashire. In this podcast, he is taking interview of the math person, Dylan William, Dan Mayer, Tom Bennet, Jo Morgana and many more. I have been reading Dan Mayer’s blogs, he is good in math and also he was talking about the Desmos activity. Here, in this interview, he is talking about how to engage students in the math classroom and also taking about self and students assessment need to develop teaching skills. I know this interview are very lengthy like 1 to 2 hours but it is useful.

Really, this podcast is useful for teacher for making good knowledge as well as for students that they can learn in different way and memorize the stuff.      

Blog 8... Week 8

In this week, we had very interesting presentation about the Re-imaging learning in the connected classroom. Bryce Ridgen, principal of Minidosa came to provide some good knowledge about technology. He had good experience about how to teach high school students with integrated technology. He is working as an administrator and they use technology in school that is good point because we heard in some presentation that sometimes we need permission when we use some technology. As an administrator, he use technology that is good for school and staff because teacher also get knowledge from that.

In his presentation, he talked about the Re-define learning with SAMR model. We all know that some teacher has good technology knowledge and some has no experience before that so this technology is arise anxiety that comes along with if make new changes. That is very difficult if you learn something new and which you heard that first time.

In this case, SAMR model to comfort educators into adopting with new technology. This model teaches that how impact on learning and teaching.

Substitution: A lot of times, when schools circulate new technology integration, teachers start out substituting technology for traditional tasks. for example, students use word processing instead of handwriting an essay. Some students aren’t using new skill, they just use as a tool as a substitute for paper and pencil.

Augmentation: In augmentation, students use spell check, highlighting and editing in the word processor. I found that a little higher on the technology scale is augmentation, where the task yields a some more product than with other technology.

Modification: This link between enhancing the traditional classroom and transforming the classroom. Students’ are working in project work that they are used google docs. In google docs they can change and add the stuff by using technology.

Redefinition: In this case, the students are working on presentation or making visually presentation.

 In this task students' engagement is high.

Also he talked about technology is not about application but it is about learning. He said make fun in the classroom by using technology as well as about schoology and edmudo. He talked about the desmos and take out the calculator because this is great app in math. Make real world connection by using technology and it is easy to integrate because everyone has one device like mobile or Tablets.

He also presented that today learning is easy because you can gain knowledge form the twitter,blog and from online courses, from google, different resources.

He also pointed that you do not remove the technological devices from the classroom but you make your stuff in app form so students can use their devices. So, we have to give direction and make control on some technology in class in different way. He also talked about the students’ creativity by using the snap chat.

Finally I would say, I really like that presentation which was engaging and with new thoughts. 

Week 7.....

In last week, we had guest speaker John Finch. We discussed about some formal things like how the job market is tight and what they have expected from the teacher. He also talked that how difficult to print subject book and how much they are invested as per students in the school. They talked about how they are filter the subject material and they tried that students get maximum from that filter materials.

I surprised that how short and sweet detailing about the health and safety guidelines given by John Finch. He provided material for health and safety guidelines and that was about the physical health like eye strain, sleep habits.Second thing was emotional and social health like how much time to spend with technology. They mentioned about when the students viewing or sharing the pictures and videos and how they affected. Might be they consider the online bullying is also one type of the threats. Also, safety guidelines like managing identity that include personal information which they shred online. He discussed about managing privacy and dangerous behaviors, recognizing the behaviors which is distracted while using technology.      

That discussion was good and all students shared their thoughts. He talked about the digital foot print and that knowledge we got from some expert’s presentation and from the reading. So we keep this thing as handy because in this computer age, students need to know this things and that makes better future.

We also got some time to complete the tech task. This is cool idea to do independence work and make trust on the students. This idea we could use in classroom like we can provide some time to work on study. So, first we can provide some knowledge about the subject and then students can explore their ideas, thoughts, and knowledge about that subject area in work period.   

TT_7... INFOGRAPHICS....

Infographics represent the graphic information which is easy to understand because infographics is visual presentation. For quick communicate a message people can use infographics. That can be useful in classroom if we use that in different way. Infographics is visual and so that could be helpful to the students to understand more with their interest. We could consider that as a note taking or for review or for summary. Even students can make it in the end of every lesson as a short note. From that way, they can participate and explore their thoughts for related subjects. I would say infographics is useful for teacher as well as for students. Teacher can do review, make summary, short notes, project and can do assessment of the students. And every student can do that work with interest. Even students can consider in presentation and they can make it creative with their ideas. So, I would say it is very interesting and useful for every subjects. Even for mathematics and science too. 

I have attached some online infographics here. When I have seen online infographics then that was hard to select best one for me. I have selected first image because I like colorful image and that describe earth evolution about past, present, and future on one page with different images and short descriptions. I would say this is more visual and covered all things with images.

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I used second image in my last practicum in grade 12 biology and at that time I didn’t know that I was using infographics. I like this image too because that is visual and so students can learn without reading that material about three different ways of breathing. Also, they can do comparison between human and animal.

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I made infographics for algebra in mathematics. When I have completed infographics for algebra then I thought that it is useful for students if I give them in the end of the lesson or they can make this kind of infographics using images or examples and make it creative. I have used easelly tool to make inforgraphics. This is cool application and I would like to use in my classroom and even I can make for every lesson to provide them kind of short note. There are many tools to make inforgraphics in creative way.