Kelly's Blog

As an elementary school teacher, I think I will use surveys or reporting tools when I am trying to get feedback from my students on how I am doing as a teacher and some fun activities they would like to do. Times change very quickly, so I think by the time I am a teacher I will no longer know what peeks students' interest so say I am doing a math lesson, I would want to get their attention by using their favorite TV show characters. I enjoyed getting to know my classmate's fields of interest and how they plan to teach it. Most of my classmates are elementary education majors, so I enjoyed reading what ideas they had to have a successful classroom, and it gave me ideas too. I would like to further my knowledge with powerpoint. Even though this is something we learned how to do in class, I believe it will be the most useful to me as a teacher because that is how I will present lessons to my students and I would like to know what else I can do with i...

The Flipped Classroom is similar to open education in the fact that students are watching videos outside of the classroom, but what sets flipped classroom apart is that it is used as homework, and when the students come back the next day, they are expected to have lessons and activities on the video. The teacher becomes less of the main educator, and is used as more of a guide, as said in the textbook. Open education was one of the "open" terms mentioned in the podcast and it is when a professor from one college or university can record their lecture and it be viewed to students in a completely other state. They do not need to be enrolled at that university to access the videos, and that can come with a few drawbacks.  These include a potential lack of administrative oversight and quality assurance systems for educators/materials in some programs, infrastructure limitations in developing countries, a lack of equal access to technologies required f...