Parker+Howard

Here's my page media type="custom" key="12702258" Sorry for the white noise. this the headset wasn't in the best condition. here's my statement if you'd rather just read it: It's important for teachers to know and understand technology standards because technology is causing education to change. There isn't any stopping it, and I'm not saying we should try to, so the education system needs to adapt. In adapting, teachers can take the opportunity to improve education. Technology allows for out-of-class collaboration and file-sharing, among many other things, that facilitate learning; conversely, some learning is necessary to facilitate technology-use. This is where educational technology standards come in. Among these is teaching students to conduct research, for instance. Knowing these standards is step one in applying them and modernizing education.

CAST Question Responses In completing the learning style essay I can’t really say that I learned anything new. That’s not to say the test isn’t useful. I learned from it the first time I took it for my Psychology 101 course, then again for Educational Psychology and again for Adolescent Psychology. Also, I feel like learning style can change or a better one could be found. The first time taking the test, someone who hasn’t tried some of the learning techniques it asks about would answer “seldom”, though they may later try them, find they work well, and later answer “often” to the same question. I did find it helpful, however, that this site offered learning strategies and found that it suggested I use flashcards to study, which I don’t normally do, but may try now. My overall impression of the CAST website was that it was very helpful and convenient. Online texts aren’t anything new to me. I browse reddit.com a lot and many of the links people have shared there are articles, so learning something from reading it on a screen doesn’t seem revolutionary. Many of these articles also had surveys like the learning styles one. Still, the CAST website is very well organized and that’s something it has over a good number of other online sources. I find the adjustments teachers are suggested to make for teaching in the digital age to be fascinating. Again, this is something I’ve encountered before in education and psychology courses, but it doesn’t hurt to have a source you can refer back to, like //Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age//. It is very helpful to know that students’ needs can be accommodated by software, such as text-to-speech for the blind or anyone who needs to hear the pronunciation of a word, or hyperlinks for anyone who would like to see the definition of a word or more information on it. I really think the activities the e-text provided were helpful in learning where my strengths lie and while, I admit, I was breezing through them at the time, I think I could really hone my skills with them in the future. As helpful as CAST was, I think I would like to learn more about it for other subjects, such as Math or Psychology, which also interest me. I’m certain that with a few minutes searching I could find they have such resources or that another similar site to CAST does.



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You find yourself at a job interview for your first teaching position in a public school (of your appropriate grade level). As you are talking to the principal, you ask how much technology is available in the school (i.e. labs, computers in classrooms, interactive whiteboards and the like) and how much emphasis is placed on teachers’ using technology in their teaching. The principal says, “Oh, yes, the teachers have whiteboards and computers in their rooms, but some teachers don’t like them and don’t use them very much. Why do you ask?” So you’re put on the spot, in a sense, to explain why you feel it is important to have up-to-date technology in the school and for teachers to use technology in teaching and in student learning.
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 * SO**, how are you going to reply to the principal’s query? What will you say about your beliefs in the importance of teaching with technology? Think about some of the knowledge you’ve acquired in this class this semester and some of the issues we’ve discussed, then compose here a reply to the principal’s question. Your answer should be thorough and in good paragraph form (remember this is a job interview) - at least a half-page to full-page length (2 or three well-developed paragraphs). Then, stop and compare your answer here to what you wrote at the beginning of the semester in terms of your beliefs in the importance of technology in education. Have those beliefs changed at all as a result of taking this class? Answer this question at the end of your response - you might want to bold the text or highlight it to set it apart from the rest of the text.

Having, and more importantly, implementing, current technology in the classroom is of utmost importance to helping students reach their fullest potential. Technology allows for lessons to be adapted to the diverse needs of students as well as provide an environment in which the use of technology itself is learned alongside a class's subject matter. This isn't to say that technology shouldn't also be taught by itself in it's own class, but that's another matter. For instance, if a student has difficultly to putting together words from their spelling, text-to-speech programs are available to assist the student. This could keep them caught up in their reading so they can learn along with the rest of the class while they learn this skill, as opposed to falling behind. Additionally, technology allows for out-of-class collaboration and file-sharing. Anything from a word document breakdown of the lesson to an audio or visual recording could be uploaded to a class site. This would give an alternative to using the textbook outside of class to figure out problems. On the subject of textbooks, technology also offers e-books, which have numerous interactive features that improve the reading experience. These include links to additional resources on subjects noted in the e-book and audio/video files. Clearly, there are restrictions to what can be printed on paper that e-books easily overcome. Finally, technology offers something new and different for students. I can say with certainty that I got bored from time to time when I was in school and all it takes for some students to overcome this lack of interest is this. Every project from kindergarten to eighth grade seemed to be a poster when I was in school, but with Glogster, for instance, you can retain the principles of a poster while overcoming the same restrictions a text poses as opposed to an e-book.