ISTE Standards for Students
Ok, ISTE means International Society for
Technology in Education. At the introduction part, it talks about the necessity for students to be a digital skilled person in literacy
Well, if you go to the http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/20-14_ISTE_Standards-S_PDF.pdf, the standard for students, you could see that it has 6 areas covered there. A first look would be ok, it's good and simple. But then i come to the question, to what age or grade level? It would be difficult for Kindergartners with a senior high student with the same one. Apparently, the standards just offers us a general guideline. i would say it better than none. Right! We could go on expand the standards anyway. I suppose it includes the area that i should think of. Besides of the age/grade level groups, i would argue it sets up different standards for different stages of development. Standards is what we used to measure. SO it need to be more exact.
As i went through these 6 areas, i was thinking of Ashley's class with their theme poem and story jumper project. First of all, this technology integration is only part of their writing project. It is another way of writing. Not replacing the way of writing with a pen. However, it shows that students need to be taught of basic computer and online searching skills at a very young age by now. It is a new challenge to kids, as they now do not focus only on their writing, which is already a complicated a process, but they have to cope with the typing, basic computer skills, arts, and etc. I totally understand the way that you raised your hand, but it is just a click then the problem could be solved. But you could do nothing until somebody comes to help! Waste of time and you see that you are left behind!
Collaboration can also be seen during their writing. Children are always talking to their shoulder friends even if they had trouble themselves. They were trying to help and it is nice of them to share with each other!
Well, the last area is really difficult for young kids, i believe. Ashley told the kids that they could finish their picture book at home if they wanted to. The boy stood beside me told me that he could not because he did not have firefox on the computer at home. It shocked me first for him to know firefox, and then i told him it would be fine for him to use IE or chrome or safari too. Well, i don't know if he could understand with only a few sentences of my explanation. But how could we explain such a difficult thing to a 1st grader? Are they ready? Are we ready? I remembered that i met a similar problem two years ago when i applied to change my visa status online by USCIS. I had to call the custom service for a reason and then i was transferred to the technical department. YES, you had to go on their website then on a particular browser which i had to download at the time while holding on the phone. Thinking back, it was hard for me, because i had to understand him over the phone to explain in technical terms of what it looked at.
Technology is changing our life, our way of living and thinking, to what extent we are not sure. I totally agree that there should be a standard but should be more detailed than this one. Looking the Core standards, i simply could not finish reading them in minutes. I need hours to understand what it is talking about!
Friday, March 27, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
observation 4
Story Jumper
I appreciate Ashley's understanding and flexibility to let me go into another story experience with them.
So this time it is story jumper. kids told me that they had finished part of their stories on it and they enjoyed it. They began quickly and as i just found out that it is limited to laptop for create a story, it's pretty easy even for new learners.
Children focused on go on finishing their story. There were lots of technical problems (delete, adding, how to save) and again spelling and typing skills. One girl came to me and ask for special help for finding those letters. She was left far behind than others and she explained it was because she lost all of them without saving so she had to rewrite. Well, she lost it again and i reminded her to click saving.
No children came to ask questions about writing. They were confident and had ideas about what to write. Then many misspellings at this stage but one boy came up with the word with a little bit hint from mine. It was always a joy to watch kids could make progress.
As each book has about 17 pages, i did not have chance to read a whole one yet, even though some boys and girls offered to read their stories to me. I had to go away to help and felt sorry that i could not be there for sharing.
Ok, the story jumper gave me the impression of making a photo book online. Ashely had her ratinoale for using this one instead of story bird for it provides more pictures and versions for her students. The illustrations are definitely better quality on story bird. However, i was thinking of the possibility of having the drawings of the kids mixed with whatever he chooses to have in the website or app. It is like a combination of illustrations. In this way, i suppose this story jumper is for lower grades.
Another thing i would argue is for the typing skills. It is a pain watching them to take time to find the letters. It would save so much time for editing or writing or organization but now it has to be spend on finding where the letter is! I would still think that kids should be provided for the training of the typing skills at an early age!
Story Jumper
I appreciate Ashley's understanding and flexibility to let me go into another story experience with them.
So this time it is story jumper. kids told me that they had finished part of their stories on it and they enjoyed it. They began quickly and as i just found out that it is limited to laptop for create a story, it's pretty easy even for new learners.
Children focused on go on finishing their story. There were lots of technical problems (delete, adding, how to save) and again spelling and typing skills. One girl came to me and ask for special help for finding those letters. She was left far behind than others and she explained it was because she lost all of them without saving so she had to rewrite. Well, she lost it again and i reminded her to click saving.
No children came to ask questions about writing. They were confident and had ideas about what to write. Then many misspellings at this stage but one boy came up with the word with a little bit hint from mine. It was always a joy to watch kids could make progress.
As each book has about 17 pages, i did not have chance to read a whole one yet, even though some boys and girls offered to read their stories to me. I had to go away to help and felt sorry that i could not be there for sharing.
Ok, the story jumper gave me the impression of making a photo book online. Ashely had her ratinoale for using this one instead of story bird for it provides more pictures and versions for her students. The illustrations are definitely better quality on story bird. However, i was thinking of the possibility of having the drawings of the kids mixed with whatever he chooses to have in the website or app. It is like a combination of illustrations. In this way, i suppose this story jumper is for lower grades.
Another thing i would argue is for the typing skills. It is a pain watching them to take time to find the letters. It would save so much time for editing or writing or organization but now it has to be spend on finding where the letter is! I would still think that kids should be provided for the training of the typing skills at an early age!
digital citizenship + Twitter
I supposed that i have posted my ideas about digital citizenship but couldn't find it. It's possible that i posted in my dream. Nothing could be possible.
Anyway, I ran into the digital citizenship before we were assigned to talk about it for 880J because of a twitter chat. GOOGLE is just amazing. I highly recommend go and check about the citizenship tutorial.
It is more of a concern that kids are conscious and parents too should enhance the digital citizenship for a wholesome literacy experience. I mean that we have to live on internet. There may be some people could do without online/digital device, but must be very few. The other day, Dr. Babchuk invited a famous professor for a talk on EDPS935 and he showed us the research in part of faraway Africa. With what he showed to us, people, at least young people are experience the change of life with computers. He has the concern of how internet and technology change the way of research in that native tribe.
Twitter has its power. I still did not get hold of it, mainly because i used to few times of it and haven't set up enough relation there. But i know that people are doing great things on it and it is a rich resource for seeing people's ideas and opinions, quick and responsive. It is a good social media for education too.
I supposed that i have posted my ideas about digital citizenship but couldn't find it. It's possible that i posted in my dream. Nothing could be possible.
Anyway, I ran into the digital citizenship before we were assigned to talk about it for 880J because of a twitter chat. GOOGLE is just amazing. I highly recommend go and check about the citizenship tutorial.
It is more of a concern that kids are conscious and parents too should enhance the digital citizenship for a wholesome literacy experience. I mean that we have to live on internet. There may be some people could do without online/digital device, but must be very few. The other day, Dr. Babchuk invited a famous professor for a talk on EDPS935 and he showed us the research in part of faraway Africa. With what he showed to us, people, at least young people are experience the change of life with computers. He has the concern of how internet and technology change the way of research in that native tribe.
Twitter has its power. I still did not get hold of it, mainly because i used to few times of it and haven't set up enough relation there. But i know that people are doing great things on it and it is a rich resource for seeing people's ideas and opinions, quick and responsive. It is a good social media for education too.
Cinderella
I took the kids to watch Cinderella on Tuesday as a treat for our spring break. Well, letting go of the film, I am thinking how many different versions of Cinderellla in the world. I wonder if it could be a cool idea for different cinderella to meet each other, talking about their own stories and they could find that most of them have a happy ending.
Kids could compare the different cinderellas, what happened differently, what happened to all of them. Which one you may like better? Why? Use digital graphic organizer and even we could timeline each of the Cinderella with the published time and see which one is the oldest.
Sure enough we could ask the kids to make a movie of their own Cinderella or sing a song, write a poem, letter or email of the favorite or least favorite Cinderella.
I don't know if the boys would like the idea, but we need princes.
Carriage building should be a good project learning and descriptive writing piece. Oh, it would be fun.
I took the kids to watch Cinderella on Tuesday as a treat for our spring break. Well, letting go of the film, I am thinking how many different versions of Cinderellla in the world. I wonder if it could be a cool idea for different cinderella to meet each other, talking about their own stories and they could find that most of them have a happy ending.
Kids could compare the different cinderellas, what happened differently, what happened to all of them. Which one you may like better? Why? Use digital graphic organizer and even we could timeline each of the Cinderella with the published time and see which one is the oldest.
Sure enough we could ask the kids to make a movie of their own Cinderella or sing a song, write a poem, letter or email of the favorite or least favorite Cinderella.
I don't know if the boys would like the idea, but we need princes.
Carriage building should be a good project learning and descriptive writing piece. Oh, it would be fun.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Class observation 3
I went to Rousseau today from 11:15 to 12:45 with Ashely in the computer lab. I was a few minutes early than supposed so when i stepped into the room, they were doing their wonders about the Golden Bridge at SF.
I think then Ashely did a great job to model the Theme Poem and she did it for a good reason as later i learned from students that it was the first time they went to the website.
I followed them to the computer lab and helped some of the kids with the jump code to go to the website. The kids were quick to choose their pictures. The hurdle there was the spelling and it is always a pain to correct them. I did not go correcting spelling if i could read them or they could read it to me as sometimes it makes sense for the sounds. Another thing is that some of the kids have difficulty to put the words together for meaning. Well, it is 1st graders and their first time for the website. At the end, every kids ended up with a print out of their poems.
I like the website for early writers and readers. It is simple enough for them to catch the key immediately. The pictures are not so many to choose however. Many of the kids chose the same one but some had time to work for another one. They had fun!
30 minutes time flied! I did not have time to go to each of them even there were 2 of us. We need more time to polish their poems if time allowed!
I went to Rousseau today from 11:15 to 12:45 with Ashely in the computer lab. I was a few minutes early than supposed so when i stepped into the room, they were doing their wonders about the Golden Bridge at SF.
I think then Ashely did a great job to model the Theme Poem and she did it for a good reason as later i learned from students that it was the first time they went to the website.
I followed them to the computer lab and helped some of the kids with the jump code to go to the website. The kids were quick to choose their pictures. The hurdle there was the spelling and it is always a pain to correct them. I did not go correcting spelling if i could read them or they could read it to me as sometimes it makes sense for the sounds. Another thing is that some of the kids have difficulty to put the words together for meaning. Well, it is 1st graders and their first time for the website. At the end, every kids ended up with a print out of their poems.
I like the website for early writers and readers. It is simple enough for them to catch the key immediately. The pictures are not so many to choose however. Many of the kids chose the same one but some had time to work for another one. They had fun!
30 minutes time flied! I did not have time to go to each of them even there were 2 of us. We need more time to polish their poems if time allowed!
Saturday, March 21, 2015
EdCamp Omahab 3/21
First time to EdCamp and got very excited about the activities.
Meet old and new friends there. Talked with teachers from Rousseau from 880J, and with other classroom teachers. Exchanging their ideas about one-on-one program, and teachers' and students' response to this one-on-one. Interesting to know that some new beginners in teaching career refused to integrate technology into curriculum.
It's interesting to see that the teachers from all grades levels, when in discussion, divided their roles into two parts to answer the questions: parents and teachers. So there were some interesting ideas about as a teacher, i don't agree but as a parent i agree. Fascinating to have those conflicting ideas!
Join two sessions in the morning. One is in a form of debate and discussion of some topics with "Rock and Suck". I suppose that some questions actually need more time to explore and some may not have a right answer. It all depends. But the session is not for a correct answer but rather for exchanging ideas and hear different voices. I think it would be a great activity to do in our 311/313 classroom with some relevant teaching strategies or topics so that students could hear others' ideas and also move around in the sage environment to talk.
The second session in the morning is Global reading aloud. I love what Dr. Balcom has done. I later learned that he used to be a student of Dr. Trainin. He has great ideas and the website and videos he showed are fabulous. A few things learned from him. Use social media to contact those influential persons, writers and illustrators. Ask them and you don't know what's going to happen.
I kind of think that we could extend this reading idea for writing, math and social and science studies. I personally would set up lit circles to have one most loved book of the 1st semester discussed, if possible, at least some chapters for cloze reading. i loved his sharing of choosing one over 2 books by judging from the cover, or the familiarity with the author/ illustrator by tearing the other off. Kids are kids and they need the kind of feeling, visually and hands-on to get to the point and satisfaction of the project. But i would really like 5th graders go deeper than looking only at the cover to make a choice. Lower levels though could be accepted.
I joined part of the 1st session in the afternoon, hearing an introduction of a few blogs. Edu blog was compared with kids blog. The websites she showed would be great ideas fro parent inference and if parents could be reached by the camera, teachers would definitely worry about it.
Had to leave early, as my husband lost his key and locked himself and the kids out of home. Thanks God, that he found the key finally when i could go back home and asked him to go to search in the car another time!
There is one more thing i learn: twitter. Lots of us seemed to be in the room for discussing but at the same time, twittering the camp. I would like to know the other few twitters talked about by Mr. Balcom. Add a few twitter friends, Yeah!
Meet old and new friends there. Talked with teachers from Rousseau from 880J, and with other classroom teachers. Exchanging their ideas about one-on-one program, and teachers' and students' response to this one-on-one. Interesting to know that some new beginners in teaching career refused to integrate technology into curriculum.
It's interesting to see that the teachers from all grades levels, when in discussion, divided their roles into two parts to answer the questions: parents and teachers. So there were some interesting ideas about as a teacher, i don't agree but as a parent i agree. Fascinating to have those conflicting ideas!
Join two sessions in the morning. One is in a form of debate and discussion of some topics with "Rock and Suck". I suppose that some questions actually need more time to explore and some may not have a right answer. It all depends. But the session is not for a correct answer but rather for exchanging ideas and hear different voices. I think it would be a great activity to do in our 311/313 classroom with some relevant teaching strategies or topics so that students could hear others' ideas and also move around in the sage environment to talk.
The second session in the morning is Global reading aloud. I love what Dr. Balcom has done. I later learned that he used to be a student of Dr. Trainin. He has great ideas and the website and videos he showed are fabulous. A few things learned from him. Use social media to contact those influential persons, writers and illustrators. Ask them and you don't know what's going to happen.
I kind of think that we could extend this reading idea for writing, math and social and science studies. I personally would set up lit circles to have one most loved book of the 1st semester discussed, if possible, at least some chapters for cloze reading. i loved his sharing of choosing one over 2 books by judging from the cover, or the familiarity with the author/ illustrator by tearing the other off. Kids are kids and they need the kind of feeling, visually and hands-on to get to the point and satisfaction of the project. But i would really like 5th graders go deeper than looking only at the cover to make a choice. Lower levels though could be accepted.
I joined part of the 1st session in the afternoon, hearing an introduction of a few blogs. Edu blog was compared with kids blog. The websites she showed would be great ideas fro parent inference and if parents could be reached by the camera, teachers would definitely worry about it.
Had to leave early, as my husband lost his key and locked himself and the kids out of home. Thanks God, that he found the key finally when i could go back home and asked him to go to search in the car another time!
There is one more thing i learn: twitter. Lots of us seemed to be in the room for discussing but at the same time, twittering the camp. I would like to know the other few twitters talked about by Mr. Balcom. Add a few twitter friends, Yeah!
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Educreatuons, here it is
https://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/jingyesi-a-chinese-poem/29918379/?s=CJ8Z9k&ref=app
Ok, this is a poem, popular one in China. The video is short but I think I got the idea how to make it.
Ok, this is a poem, popular one in China. The video is short but I think I got the idea how to make it.
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