Among the ISTE standards, there are a series of standards for many of the different fields of education. One of the is the ELA standards, or English Language Arts standards. Among these standards, I feel most comfortable teaching the standard that encourages students to cite their sources while communicating with the world. As we saw last night in the debate, citing your sources and grounding your words in truth can prove to be very helpful in many ways. I feel most comfortable teaching this standard because I feel so strongly about citing sources. I still, however feel under prepared to teach students how to use technology strategically and capably. I don't feel I have the creativity to come up with clever ways to engage my students in technology.
I'm getting my degree in education so I can go on to teach English as a second language to refugees in Nashville. My students would range from all ages, and so would my content and application of technology. For example, some students may not be familiar with computers, so their knowledge of digital citizenship (the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use) would be extremely minimal and need to be cleverly integrated into their learning of the English language. The language barrier would make this difficult. Learning some of the norms of technology would prove useful when assimilating into American culture because it is so regularly used in our country. Because I'm unfamiliar with the exact teaching process of the organization I plan to work for, I am unsure how I would go about integrating technology into my lessons.
This week we had to create a newsletter for class. I have always wanted to find an excuse to use a border on Microsoft Word so learning and using this tool was quite fun. The entire assignment was fun. I enjoyed playing pretend and making up a class, and students, and community. I did however procrastinate, so I would have like to have seen what I could have created, had I given myself more time. Here is my newsletter:
Nashville!?! Like Nashville Tennessee?
ReplyDeleteIt's great that you want to work with refugees. I like how you tied in the digital citizenship from a couple of weeks ago into today's blog.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, I love the title of this post. "We have Standards". I also love making a border on Microsoft Word. Great Post! Keep up the good work!!
ReplyDeleteThat is so awesome what you want to do with your career! And there are so many useful applications and websites to use to display languages. And I completely understand you on the technical frustrations!
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