Charity Fisher's List: Professional Development

• learners actively participate;

  • nullGreen highlights -- 2012-08-29
    These highlighted areas require a lot of preparation on the behalf of the teacher. I found I spent a lot of time teaching and demonstrating to students before they even started the activity appropriate interaction within the group and responsibility for their contribution. -- 2012-08-29
    
• teachers become learners at times, and learners sometimes teach

  • I have found that most activities and even simple worksheets can be enhanced with cooperative groups. I have tried giving only one response sheet to a group of 4 students with the expectation that they all contribute to completing the activity or sheet. I has worked great in the past. Students tend to have amazing conversations during the process.
• respect is given to every member
• diversity is celebrated, and all contributions are valued
• students learn skills for resolving conflicts when they arise

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• • This aspect could be great for teachers that are preparing students for CCS
• Many include features such as videos, interactive models, and moveable diagrams to keep students engaged and enrich the explanations of topics.
• • Digital textbooks give the ability to annotate the text which we can't do with regular textbooks.
• Students and teachers can take notes, add drawings, write questions, and work out problems as needed.
• Save Money
• • It could save not only schools money but parents. Every year parents are paying to replace books that students have lost or vandalized.

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• • The librarian at my school says that 'the librarian' is a dying breed because of the fact that nearly all information is being made available online.
• We already do so much reading and research online for projects, papers, and general information anyway, so why not move the whole thing online.

• • These Meta search engines could be helpful if you know exactly which ones to use and for what type of information.
• • Using Meta search engines could make the world wide web a smaller place to search for exact information.

• • It may be a helpful teaching technique to have students translate chat speak to formal English. I think students could then make the distinction bewteen the and see the place for both. I love that idea.
• • We should these as an opportunity for teaching. The unintentional mistakes that students are making in this translation process can be used as a teacing opportunity and show students what skills they are lacking. This self-awareness could be benefitical.
• The experiment required these children to translate sentences in English to “chat speak” (I can’t wait to see you later tonight, is anyone else going to be there?) a
• translate “chat
• ak” into English (Hav u cn dose ppl ova dere?)
• • I wholeheartedly agree that the speed of writing using a computer does affect peoples' writing. I know it has affected me. I don't have the patience for writing. Also, my hand gets tired because I don't have the muscle stamina for writing anymore.
• • That is a bit of an exaggeration. If there are gross misspellings then the phone can't autocorrect. Also, if this is the way of the future is it that important students have as adept skills as students from previous generations? I don't know.
• something that is not always considered is that these mistakes are often unintentional
• they talk about how the speed of writing using a computer has an effect on peoples’ writing:
• Texters no longer have to worry about what they’re writing. They can breeze through a long text message and not have to worry about spelling errors.
• • Thsi could be the only example where lower economic status is benefitical! How cool is that?
• a sentence in a text message may only contain five words and “get the job done” so students are thinking that shortened responses will also “get the job done” in the classroom

• How Much do Students Text?

   

  There is no arguing that students now-a-day text more than ever. Statistically phone bills show that on average, teens send and receive about 1800 text messages per month. This increase in text messaging has affected how students write formally. They may be properly taught on how to differentiate between formal and informal English, but their homework assignments show that they are using text messaging lingo to complete these assignments.
   An interesting story that fits well to the statement that students, who text more, have trouble writing is as follows. Two students, Chase and Carol, were in the same ninth grade English class. They didn’t hang out outside of their English class and had different friend groups. Carol’s family couldn’t afford to purchase the “unlimited texting plan” for their phones, so her texting was restricted. Chase on the other hand, had the unlimited text messaging capability for his phone. He texted a lot and averaged about 3500 text messages sent and received per month. For their English class, they had to write an essay about a topic they were assigned. They were paired up to peer-review. While editing, Carol noticed some mistakes in Chase’s paper, but refrained from editing them – she didn’t want Chase to get mad. When the English teacher read Chases paper she noticed that it included informal use of English (b/c and cuz for because). It also included short choppy sentences that had no depth what-so-ever and no explanation of the topic. Carol’s paper on the other hand had a thesis statement, supporting paragraphs with details and descriptions. This story is a great example of how the more a student texts directly affects their ability to write formally.

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• • The Technology Tools shows how to use technology in the classroom.
• • Tech with Tia not only has list of resources that can be used by students but also professional develpment information like the ppt on CCS.
• • The Website Calendars is a quick way to keep updated on different tools available on line.

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• • Great helfpul hints for us that are new to blogging.
• • This oculd be very helpful
• Under 13s
• Web 2.0 tools that you can’t embed: Occasionally you will find that some web 2.0 tools can’t be embedded. These could be anything from comics to word clouds to artwork etc. You can always take a screenshot using Snipping Tool in Windows 7 or other screen capturing software. Then you can simply upload the image like you would a normal picture.
• • I need to practice that tool because there have been instances where that would have been helpful.
• • I need to visit this blog in order to make myuse Animoto even better.
• Animoto allows you to easily turn photos (and video clips) into videos complete with effective music and transitions. Animoto for Education gives teachers free access to premium features. Find an Animoto tutorial on Shawn Avery’s blog.

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• • nullThsi site gives quick tutorials on various tools that can be used in and for the classroom.
    -- 2012-10-07
    Student discussions has videos and ways for students to dicuss. -- 2012-10-07
    
• • You can find many different online tools just by clicking around. I found several on the Archive page.