First week of Field

This first week of field reminded me of a quote I heard once. “Be like a duck clam on the surface but paddling like the dickens underneath.” That is how I feel I’ve been this week. The students are adorable and they don’t know I am clueless. During math the teacher asked us to walk around the room and help one on one. I felt bad the first time when I didn’t know the answer to the fourth graders homework. I need to go back to fourth grade. The teacher Mrs. Pratt is always telling the students its okay to be human and make mistakes.

We taught our first lesion on Wednesday. It was on irrigation systems. I used the overhead to show a photo and blinded myself. Good thing I started off small on my technoegey use in the classroom. The teacher (while we were out of the class cleaning up) asked the students how they thought the lesion went and what things we could do better on. They said that the instruction part of the lesion was good but they got confused on the activity. I am so glad she took the time have the students give us input. It makes me want to try harder next time. One thing that stood out to me was how pressured for time we were. The school day is so full of other things teachers really have little time to just teach.

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Seasons

The webquest of the seasons

Web Quest ll

I think we have reached the snag part of the web quest. It is overwhelming at the moment to think of how to put this all together. I’m sure we are thinking a little too hard about the whole thing and it will all come out in the wash. It is hard to divide put parts and make the work load qual. I am sure that as a group we will make it happen. I truly enjoy manipulating things around on the computer. I look forward to a world where this can became easily done- like the digital coffee table. Web quest will be a great way to guide students through websites. Interactive lesion holds students interested. It is the way they enjoy learning- through the web. Making Web quest will become faster as we learn how to put one together. The first project is always the longest one to put together. Next time it will be clearer what needs to happen to make it run. I made a digital movie of family clips and photos after our project of the butterfly. Putting the voice and music in went rather smoothly compared to the problems we had making ours. Hopeful the same is true of our web quest- that next time it will be rather easy to put together.

Video: Did you know?
This video shows that as teachers we need to keep in mind that the world is changing. What we teach should be things that will be of some use in the years to come.” The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2010 did not exist in 2004 we are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist…” So what can we teach them today that will be of some value in years to come? In the first years of school we must lay the foundation for learning. They need to have positive experiences in their first years of learning. The greatest thing we can teach is to love learning. My first impression of the video was the undercurrent theme these videos are repeating. The first time you hear the messages “we are living in exponential times”, it is vast and impressive. We don’t know what will happen in the days and years to come but, most likely new gadgets will be at the center of it. It brings to my mind Saturday morning cartoons like the Jetson’s. At the touch of a button instantly things happen. It is hard to think the world can change that much in a few years. Yet, we will always still need the same basic things; Food, shelter, and love.