Reflections on Things #8 – 14
So, in thing #10 we got to create a Voicethread to share with our students. I had to laugh because when I went to get my account and my laptop had already been associated with a different account. My daughter had created an account last year at school while she was in 3rd grade. Man did I ever feel out of it! I am planning on recording helpful tutorials for my students to access at home while doing their homework. I know how frustrating it is when you are working on something and you want help right then. This hasn’t been an option for years, but with the internet this is possible. I also think that I will find a way to use Quizlet in my classes. Unfortunately, most of what we do is not rote memorization, but I know I could find a way to make it work. I like the games the web-site provides. I got to use them while helping my son study for a vocabulary test just last week and he found the games very helpful and fun!
I swear I can make a case for hitting four of the strategies with Quizlet alone! The identifying similarities and differences is going to be affected by adding notecards in Quizlet. Students benefit from the repetition, which also is mentioned in the increasing value and practice strategy. My book for FST is one of the old UCSMP books and there is NO repetition. I am sure that by increasing the number of times students see types of problems the better they will do and the more they will remember. This goes right along with the suggestions that we increase reinforcing effort and providing practice regularly. Quizlet also helps with setting objectives and providing feedback. It doesn’t get any faster than flipping a notecard over to see if you got the definition or problem right. The strategy for increasing questioning, cues and advanced organizers can be addressed using both Voicethread and Prezi to re-teach any given lesson. I will be able to reinforce the main point of any given lesson and post that for the students to review.
I would like to great a set of Quizlet cards that we can do in class. It’s not anything different then writing questions on the board or on the overhead, but I would like to show the students how to use the web-site and all that it can help them study. Using Quizlet I would like to make a game for the students to do practice problems in the form of a race. I would like to divide the classroom into a few teams and have each team use a laptop to access the web-site and go through the provided list of cards in a race. Students love races! I can use this with almost any lesson as a fun review. I also like the Google forms to create a Jepordy game for review. I have looked at the template and I know other teachers that are using it regularly. Now that I have my data projector I will be able to make it work! I will also assign, most likely for extra credit, a set of Quizlet cards from the students. I would like them to create a set of cards based on what they have in their notes. I will be addressing the technology standard set by the state of Michigan by having students work on-line for an assignment. I hope to and will have to increase the number of on-line assignments as the years pass.
Using Voicethread, I’m thinking that I will create little soundbites of helpful suggestions. Maybe have a link to a soundbite for the problems that I anticipate will be difficult for kids listed on my web-site. Another thought for what I can do with Voicethread is a simple, “These are the three things you should have learned today, did you?” This will be a quick daily check for kids.
There are endless options for what a teacher can share with their students, but in this set of things it was also pointed out that there is an awful lot of information out there on the internet which is false. I have another idea for an extra credit assignment for my students that involves number and looking for false data on-line. I’m going to have to do some work preparing and finding sources with false data, but I think it would be very good for the kids to understand fully that anyone can put anything out there!
Works Cited
Marzano, Robert J., Debra J. Pickering, and Jane E. Pollock. "Putting the Pieces Together." Gloucester County Public Schools. 24 Feb. 2008. Web. 17 Dec. 2010. <http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/index.htm>.
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