Internet Safety

1. The article that I chose to read was Elder David A. Bednar's Things as They Really Are.
2. For the video resources I mostly just looked at websites that were kid oriented.
3. Reading-My favorite part of this talk was how he talked about truth and how we need to be able to discern things as they really are. This is so important for us to realize and to strive for. He also talked a lot about being aware of the alluring illusion of anonymity given off by cyberspace. He warned us against using media in such a way that we will not remember the importance of our physical bodies. He said that we should ask ourselves if what we are doing with cyberspace brings us closer to the spirit.
Video-I wanted to find things that I could suggest to my students that they could use themselves to help them learn to be safe on the internet. I found a lot of good games and animated video clips that I think would be good for children and would help them to learn what they should and shouldn't do to be safe on the internet.
4. The person I talked to (we will call him Patrick) already knew a lot about internet safety. He was even able to tell me about some things that I was not as knowledgeable about. However, he was not as aware of how to help little children to understand internet safety. So, when I shared the information that I had discovered on the kid friendly sites. I think that those sites would be so good because they have games, which interest children, so that the children can use them to learn more about internet safety while they are playing. I think Patrick will use the internet sites that I told him about to help him explain internet safety to children in a fun way that they will understand!

TPACK for Integrated Lesson

This is the link to my integrated lesson TPACK assingment:
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AZ2csmiGVfQhZHdzaDQ0dF83Z2I3M3JqZG0&hl=en

Technology Lesson Plans

I put all of my lesson plans on Google Docs. Here are the links:

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dwsh44t_6dcd6q487
math

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dwsh44t_5dzdhr8cg
language arts

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dwsh44t_46t5nfhgm
science

3 Videos Response

After watching the videos of I Love Spiders, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, and Habitats I think that one of the most important things that I learned from them about using technology to teach young children is that children love using technology. As a teacher I will always be working to get the students engaged in what I am trying to teach them and I think that using technology is a great way to do that. The students will be more likely to pay attention to a lesson that they are engaged in and excited about the way that they are excited about using technology. Having the students engaged like this would help them to pay attention and since they would be paying attention more they would be learning more. I think that any way to get students to internalize more and take more out of your lesson would be a great asset to use when teaching.

Technology at Riverview Elementary

It seems to me that there are a lot of different resources as far as technology readily available to the teachers at the school that I am doing my practicum in. As I was finding out what was available and what the teachers had access to I had so many ideas about different things that I could do for different lessons with each of the items of technology available. The thing that surprised me most was that as I was talking with some of the teachers about what the different technologies are that are available to them many of them said that they had never used any of it and that they mostly just taught is different ways. I am really excited to use all of these different technologies as I am teaching some of the lessons this month.

I completed the mid-course evaluation and the informed consent questionnaires

Voice Thread

Science Plan

Content-
Endothermic and Exothermic reactions
Science-Chemistry -- Standard 4 Objective 2
This would be used in 5th or 6th grade

Pedagogy-
I will be observing the students as they are the main ones doing the experiment. I will help them with vocabulary as we go and asking them questions about what they think is going to happen and if they are able to classify the reactions as endothermic or exothermic. I will then have them make a table that tells the kinds of reactions that are endothermic or exothermic. They will be able to also make graphs of the temperatures of each of the reactions as they take place. Then I would like them to look at the data that they have created and tell me about it in a written paragraph.

Technology-
I will be using the temperature probes and the probes will be in the reactants before the reaction starts and as it progresses so that the students can see whether it is getting cooler or warmer. They will also be able to see how long it takes to get to the temperature that it finishes at. I will be projecting the screen so that the whole class can see it at once.