I found this reading to be very useful. During my last year of college is when Barnes and Nobles started using Nook Textbooks, and I thought it was a great idea. The idea that I could buy a textbook for a fraction of the price and that it had the tools for me to highlight and make digital notes actually encouraged me to read the text, not only that, I was able to read the textbook while I was on the train, and didn't have to lug a huge textbook around or never use it and try to wing my way through some of the classes.
I find that discussion boards are also great for students because it allows them to be able to write what they want, and they have time to think about responses, compared to when they are sitting face to face with other students, and feel pressured to answer right away. The idea of using a blog in a college course I think is also beneficial to not only the students, but to the teachers as well. If open to others to read, it allows for peer to peer comments, and students can be more motivated to keep up with their work, and make edits. As from a teachers point of few, I think it's easier to read a students blog compared to have them submit work to me via e-mail or handwritten/typed rough drafts.
Blogs, I feel, are very easy to start up, even for teachers and students that don't themselves to be very tech savvy. Most people use Google, and blogger is already build it. It is also set up almost like an email. Since everyone now and days send emails instead of actual letters, it's easy to write and then submit.
Keystone Assignment Draft
1. Create a glogster for the main ideas in chapter 2 of "Freakonomics"
2. Grade Level: 12
3. The ISTE standards that are being met are:
1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct
knowledge, and develop innovative products and
processes using technology.
a. Apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas,
products, or processes
b. Create original works as a means of personal
or group expression
c. Use models and simulations to explore complex
systems and issues
d. Identify trends and forecast possibilities
3. Research and Information Fluency
Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate,
and use information.
a. Plan strategies to guide inquiry
b. Locate, organize, analyze, evaluate, synthesize,
and ethically use information from a variety of
sources and media
c. Evaluate and select information sources and digital
tools based on the appropriateness to specific tasks
d. Process data and report results
5. Digital Citizenship
Students understand human, cultural, and societal
issues related to technology and practice legal and
ethical behavior.
a. Advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible
use of information and technology
b. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology
that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity
c. Demonstrate personal responsibility for
lifelong learning
d. Exhibit leadership for digital citizenship
6. Technology Operations and Concepts
Students demonstrate a sound understanding
of technology concepts, systems, and operations.
a. Understand and use technology systems
b. Select and use applications effectively
and productively
c. Troubleshoot systems and applications
d. Transfer current knowledge
The Common Core Standards met are:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.1 Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine and convey complex ideas, concepts, and information clearly and accurately through the effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details, and well-structured event sequences.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.11-12.6 Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products in response to ongoing feedback, including new arguments or information.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.2a Observe hyphenation conventions.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.11-12.2b Spell correctly.
4. My intended results are to slowly bring technology into the classrooms by using the required reading and allowing the students to create their own glogster to illustrate the main ideas in chapter 2 that they've read.
5. I am lucky enough to work in a classroom which always has a laptop cart available as well as someone to help in case a computer stops working. The only training I think the teachers would need be to have hands on experience using glogster.
6. Laptop Cart is required
7. The evaluation plan for the students will be a rubric. For the teacher assessment, I will have them create their own glogsters so they can familiarize themselves with the process and the application.
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