Category Archives: EDUC 407

Throughout this course, we have learned so many different ways to use technology in the classroom, whether it is giving students an opportunity to collaborate or finding new video content that shows learning skills and gives information to students, or creating our own content for our students learning. We have learned about the impact ofContinue reading “Technology in the Classroom”

Social media has become a huge part of everyday life, most people have Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, Pinterest, Wikipedia, youtube and many other similar apps and social media accounts, but in school, these are usually banned. We know that social media can sometimes be unsafe, and learning how to use social media and how toContinue reading “Social Media”

After researching educational technology tool, what I discovered was that there are so many tools that you can find online and free. This was something that as a teacher I thought was really fun. Being able to access so many different tools with just the click of the mouse and to have it be freeContinue reading “Go Noodle”

There is no denying that technology has changed education as we have know it, instead of ignoring it, why not embrace it? As we have seen, technology has so many uses inside the classroom as well as outside the classroom. With so many different types of online collaboration software we are now able to connectContinue reading “Learning about Tech”

As highlighted in the video on Project Based Learning, school today tends to be lectures, memorization and test, but with Project Based Learning, school can be more interesting, and PBL also teaches other skills needed to succeed. Skills that can be learned through PBL are problem solving and critical thinking. If you’re just memorizing factsContinue reading “Project Based Learning”

If technology is changing should education stay the same? If opportunities are opening up to change how we education should we stand in the way? In Sugata Mitra’s TED talks “New Experiments in Self Teaching” and “Build a School in the Cloud” he discusses the experiments he conducted bringing technology to places where teachers andContinue reading “Grandmother Method”

As our world expands and advances in technology so will our outlook on education have to expand and advance. In Thomas Friedman’s book “The World is Flat” he discusses different events and technologies that were created that have helped to “even the playing field” between countries. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and theContinue reading “The World is Flat”

Hello and welcome to my blog! I am a student, teacher, and avid reader. I love the outdoors whether it be camping in the Sierra’s or having a day at the beach, I try to get outside on an adventure with my chocolate lab as often as possible. I love Disneyland and anything Disney. IContinue reading “All about Me”