Module 1
1. What are you most excited to learn about?
2. In which areas might you serve as a leader or "expert" for your classmates?
3. In which areas will you need to spend more time exploring and getting ideas from your coursemates?
1: The class overall is exciting to me. The longer I teach, the more "connected" students are and the more they seem to need that digital stimulation to get excited about learning. However, I would say that I am more excited to learn about the Flipped Classroom experience. I feel like this could be a game-changer in my subject and finally get 11/12-year-olds find genuine interest in the world beyond their own borders.
2: After reading the responses to my introduction, it looks like Molly Harper and I will be your go-to gals for developing and implementing school wide (as well as classroom-to-classroom) policies for programs like the "Bring Your Own Technology" initiative at Shelbyville Middle School. We will be happy to advise you on how to align your school policies to ensure devices are being used solely for educational purposes and not for Facebook and Snapchat.
3: I have a hard time trusting substitutes period! Let alone on a day I have planned to use the iPads for a webquest! I hope to get ideas from my classmates that will ease my worries about sticking to my tech plan on a day when life happens and I have to be out. I am also excited to hear your success stories, not only about Flipped Classrooms, but also technology integration as a whole!
I love how you've set up your blog, Natalie! It's so cute! : >
ReplyDelete"Nerd Herd"... now that's funny!!
ReplyDeleteDo you have a set of written student policies for your students there at Shelbyville Middle School? If so, would you be so kind to e-mail them to me at esieferman@millcreekschools.org? I'd love to get a look at them to see if there isn't something I couldn't incorporate into my school's emerging student policies.