Reflection #5

These last two prior weeks we have been working on and learning about digital stories, which have been so much fun and will help students with active learning, and creating. These tools will help students be able to create their own stories, about whatever they would like. It can help bring out some self discovery and make learning very fun and active. This allows students to creat their own projects, individually or with a group.



These tools with help me collaborate with my colleagues by sharing this new idea with them, sharing information, and working togehter as colleagues and students to create an awesome digital story. It is a chance to share my own story with my colleauges, or introduce them to a new way of learning and teaching.



These tool are or could be so popular among colleagues and students, because how fun and interactive digital stories are. It helps with creativity, and exploration. These tools are fun for teachers to show their students or for teachers to also have their students try something new and exciting. It allows students and teachers to take technology to a whole new level, and allows audacity in the classroom and among colleagues.



I can emply these tools in my classroom to help achieve many teaching objectives and skills. If there is some fun research or fun technology lessons I need to teach I can use the digital stories for demonstration or for a fun way of learning about things through out the world. It can also teach the students to work as a group, and create together by creating one on their own.



Some pros of digital story is the fun things it offers, the ability to use technology, it's interactive capacity, group work is available, it can help accomplish many teaching objectives, it can be a new way for presentations for the teacher and for the students.



Some cons of digital story is everyone may not have access to the internet or to the things needed for creating these types of projects. It may also be difficult for some teachers and students to use if they aren't familiar with higher technologies. it is also very time consuming but can all be worth learning it and taking the time in the end.

Did You Know 2.0

This clip was very interesting, I really enjoyed the different statistics it gave, it was all very surprising. The comparisons between the U.S., India, and Chine were also all very surprising. It was very interesting how much lower the U.S. is in the numbers when dealing with technology. It was also very fun to see the numbers of different technology uses for 21 year olds, and how high they were, which wasn't very shocking but is sad. I loved this clip cause it made a good point about how much and how fast this world is growing with its technology and as educators we need to make sure we are keeping our students on track in order to make it through the 21st century.

A Vision of Students Today

This clip was also very interesting, and was so correct for students today. There is a lot of money and time that go into school that in the long run or short run don't help students at all in life. It seems by this clip a lot of students are feeling not noticed, or learning useful information. The classrooms are too large, buy useless stuff, going into debt, tests are pointless for life but technology is a way to get through all this long term hectic hardship. It helps because there is a lot more school work, reading and association online, which helps students stay more intune. Students need technology in their lives, but need to also be interested in school and learning the information that is being taught. I would say a lot of students are using technology for the wrong this at the wrong times during school or when they could be studying.