I, like one of my fellow students, have been struggling and wondering about the project of my choice, simply because I am completely out of my element. There is a distinct reason that I am NOT teaching ELE, and that is because I really don't understand how kids that young work. I truly need to work on that because in a few years, Lord willing, I will be starting a family and, being the man that I am with a particular personality, often find it hard dealing with things that are illogical. Which pretty much defines so much of the youth experience nowadays. Anyway, I am working on shifting my mind from online assignments for aspiring online instructors and secondary teachers who hope to use this technology in the classroom and involve the students in the usage, to determining exactly what are realistic expectations of technology in an elementary environment. Maybe I am thinking that kids that young are more underdeveloped than they really are and that indeed they can accomplish great things. I am as a result trying to think of what elementary kids learn and how technology can be a supplement and an enhancer to the presentation of content in a classroom rather than the means through which students interact with the content.
As I type this I realize that all kids are not 'snotty nosed cry babies, who are only learning colors, but this also extends to the 5th grade, where apparently, you learn more than majority of the population, as proven by the show "Are you smarter than a 5th grader?" Anyway, I truly need to continue to take the time to carefully read over and understand the standards that are covered in ELE and predict and role-play, figuring out exactly how, why, and when certain instructional technology can be integrated successfully and helpfully into an ELE classroom.
After today's meeting with Dr. Giddens I have learned a lot. I had the opportunity to bounce some ideas off him and actually get started on this project. What I am going to do, is to create a survey to ask the questions that I have been pondering. That is, what goals do you think are attainable for this age group, what content area do you feel instructional technology can be the most help in, what standards do you feel would benefit most from IT.
However, we also got to discuss what I have been currently working on, and that is the instructional videos and the youtube channel. He recommends that I type up and produce a video on why I am making instructional videos and how. I can definitely do this, since the means and medium which I create videos with and through are either free or highly inexpensive and serve as a viable alternative to interactive whiteboards. So, that is what I will be using as my project of choice the why's and how to's of instructional video making.
This is my developing youtube channel's first video.
I will continue to create videos to share with teachers and hopefully, I can help them provide better content for their students.
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