Chapter 6 Reflection

Technology tools can encourage students to be reflective and evaluate their own strengths by:

-            Blogs offer students a time to overview their own thoughts on what they are learning.

-            Various online sites such as ProfilerPRO offer surveys that can be taken or created to help learn your personalized learning characteristics as well as create them.

-             Tools such as SurveyMonkey and Zoomerang allow you to set up online surveys you can use the results to track movement and help students with self-assessments.

There are several ways to get a student’s mind ready for a project:

-       Bring in a visual of the topic to get the wheels rolling

-       Encourage them to talk about the topic in discussion

-       Give them time to think about the topic and reflect on it

-       Posters, pictures, slideshows, and visual aids

The elements of teaching fundamentals first:

-       Teaching how to learn for more in depth learning

-       The K-W-L process

-       Helps students grasp knowledge

-       Taking steps with the learning

There are many important steps in preparing students for using technology when doing a project:

-       Set up a technology playground so students can explore the technology they will be working with.

-       Encourage students to teach each other

-       Give brief demonstrations of the lesson

-       Do practice runs with student trainers

-       Keep a project log or journal to offer student a place to track their progress

-       Write reflections at the end of class

Ways to promote inquiry and deeper learning.

-       Turn their questions around to have them research more

-       Have students work together so they can discuss and reflect on learning

-       Ask which ones, how, what if, should, and why questions to inquire further learning

-       Steer students toward skilled questioning

This chapter relates to concepts we have learned and done in class with our project staying healthy. The teacher gives us brief demonstrations of technology being used for different assignments and we then practice by working together and asking questions. Also we use online tools such as our blog to get feedback on our work.