Week 4 - Assignment

The Tech Savvy Teacher

Since science is a way of knowing, a process for gaining knowledge and understanding of the natural world, as the newly converted third grade Tech Savvy Teacher, I would like to answer the most important TPACK questions:

1. What is the content you are focusing on in your science lesson?

      In my particular lesson I am focusing on:

    Standard 2: Understanding that organisms depend on living and 

                           non-living things within their environment.

    Objective 1: Classifying living and non-living things in their 

                           environment.

         a. Identifying characteristics of living things

        b. Identifying characteristics of non-living things

2. What is the pedagogy you are using and why is it a goof fit with 

      the content?

    Since the students can't gain an understanding of science by reading textbooks or by lectures with the help of technology the students are going to be able to gain knowledge by observing , questioning, exploring, and comparing living and non-living things.

     

3. What is the technology you will be using and why is it a good fit 

      with the content and pedagogy?    

      I will be using two QX5 computer microscopes, a laptop, and the smart board. I think that this technology is a perfect fit for the lesson because all the students, at the same time, will be able to observe very closely the difference between living and non-living things. 

In this lesson the students will be able to go outside and bring one object that they think is a non-living and another object that they think is living. They will be able to observe what is the difference between living ad non-living things. The students will be able to make a short video of their living objects. I will be able to publish them in my blog and the students can access them and observe as many times as they want to. This is important because this will prepare them to understand how living and non-living things interact in an environment.  At the end of the lesson they will be able to list the characteristics of living and non-living things. 

Shrimp eggs

Honeybee wing

Wool

Ant

Week 3 - Assigment

TPACK stands for Technological Pedagogical And Content Knowledge. By understanding this framework it helped me think in a variety of ways that I can integrate technology in the classroom.

One of the experiments that I really liked was to observe under the microscope drops of ice melting. I also was able to find how the constellations were lined up in La Paz, Bolivia when I was born. It was very interesting to use Stellarium. Definitely I will use this type of technology to teach Sciences. 

Second Week Assignment

RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a method for online publishers to share and distribute their content directly to other websites or individual Internet users. RSS allows me to display the latest content from other websites. With this feature I can collect RSS feeds from my favorite websites and use special software known as "RSS readers" to receive the latest content from these sites without having to visit them one at a time. This is of great value because it makes it easier to prepare lessons.

First Week Assignment

Technical Background
I have been working with computers in education. My experience was designing educational courseware for the school system. I also did computer aided translation for very well known companies. I am completely new at creating and publishing blogs. I know that this class is going to be beneficial in my new career.