Monday, March 16, 2009

Teaching Math and Literacy... Week 10

Mathematics Technology:



Content: This is for third grade: Standard 1; objective 2; a Identify the denominator of a fraction as the number of equal parts of the unit whole and the numerator of a fraction as the number of equal parts being considered.

Pedagogy: For this lesson, as the teacher I would explicitly teach the mathematics concepts in a large group activity so the students will be exposed. I will be having a few activities that can be done to help assess the students as we are working through the large activity to assess the different levels of students.

Technology: There is an online activity that helps students learn about their fractions, numerators and denominators. This activity is called "Fishy Fractions" I found it on the website Internet4Classrooms. Depending on the level of the students there are more challenging activities that can be done with fractions; so that each student can work on their own level. With this website you have to make a screenname (which might not be ideal). But it keeps track of the high scores- so that could be fun if a member of your classroom was a high scorer. After the students finish with using the technologies there are several different ways in which we can use objects in the classroom to make sure the students understand the concepts about fractions that were taught.


Literacy Technology



Content: Language Arts: Standard 3; objective 3; b. Segment words into onset and rime (e.g., sat, /s/.../a/.../t/).

Pedagogy: I will explicitly teach this essential reading knowledge by having a few small group activities where the students will be able to experiment with the different words; by saying them out loud- this will allow them to better understand the concepts that are being taught in the lesson.

Technology: For this activity there is a great website that is specifically for learning hot to blend words together. The main character is a blender and the students will help him pick the different onsets and rimes that go together. The blender will then tell the student if they are correct or not. This game seems like a very fun way for students to experiment with work blending along with different technologies.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

ECE Technology Inventory

Being an early childhood education major, I had never really thought about the different technologies that are available within the classroom. I always figured that the kids would be on the younger side of things; so that would make our activities a little different than the elementary education majors. I always knew that I would use technology in the classroom, it was just a matter of what is developmentally appropriate. After interview a first grade classroom I was amazed at all the different technologies that were present.

In this particular classroom, there was one MAC computer that was available to the students in their classroom. They also had all the program that come with the MAC computer such as: iphoto, garageband, imovie, TimeMachine, and Spaces. There are numerous possibilities that come with all of these different programs. Also within the classroom there is a TV, CD player which would be great for showing movie clips or focusing on a certain culture's music. This classroom also has access to a DVD/VCR player, Smartboard/Smart Clickers and they have Internet access. There were several other things that this school (Hillcrest Elementary) provided for its teachers and students.

As I was learning more and more about the different technologies within the classroom, I began to think about the different activities and lessons that could be fun for the students. This elementary school had access to a technology called an Elmo. This is a way for the teacher to project a book up onto the big screen. I think that this is a technology that I would use in my future classroom. Along with the fun activities that are programmed into the Smartboards. I think that this class and the activities that are assigned are allowing me to think more outside the box and get ready to have a technology savvy classroom for my future students.

Monday, March 2, 2009

WEEK 8: My Virtual Tour Link...

http://sites.google.com/site/jennleecobb/my-filez