Jordan's EME 2040 blog

I believe as a teacher I will collect data using surveys rather frequently. I plan on teaching 10th grade history and I can use surveys and keep excel sheets about how the students are doing and how they feel the curriculum supports what they are learning. I can give the students surveys to see what I need to work on and what the students are learning best. I have learned some very interesting skills when doing my assignments with excel and surveys I can use when teaching. We have blogged about some very interesting topics throughout this semester. My favorite topics include the student researched technology. I believe I have gotten some very good tech recommendations. We have learned and talked about many different apps like diigo, google classroom, and other productivity apps and extensions. I would have never found these apps without this class. I now use diigo on an everyday basis. I believe I would next really like to focus on coding and website development. I believe I learne...

"The Flipped Classroom" is a very interesting concept. It essentially is a learner-central method, it focuses more on the learner and it can help explore topics in more depth. There is usually educational technologies used outside of the classroom for supplemental support. Online lectures and learning resources are used and then what is learned outside of the classroom is applied in critical thinking activities and group work/discussions in class. Open Educational Resources (OER) are resources that are publicly licensed, which means they are free to use. This makes me smile. Learning is so important however, it can cost a myriad amount of money. This is terrible because we are keeping knowledge and resources from people who cannot afford it, and the population that would benefit the most from learning. I found this resource titled OER Commons, you can check out the website here . This is a public digital library of open educational resources. The part I checked out is the l...

I have been very impressed with Diigo and the overall idea and function of it. I really do not like reading things online because I cannot highlight and annotate, however, Diigo allows me to do that. I now use Diigo everyday throughout my classwork. I use it to highlight and take notes on any important information I encounter. I also like how I can bookmark the website I am looking at and have all my articles in one place. I also enjoy the group or social aspect of it. This is great for any classes, even book clubs or extracurricular activities. This is good because people can read different articles and share the important info with the people in their group, it is great for sharing info. PowerPoint can help analyze, evaluate, and apply information, as Bloom Taxonomy states. PowerPoint is a great supplemental tool to give a visual of the information you are given. PowerPoint should not be used as just a bunch of slides with a bunch of words and people speaking directly off of the sl...