Journal 6

Focus question:

How do teachers organize electronic resources to address curriculum frameworks and learning standards?

The good thing about technology is that it has everything easily placed at the end of a search bar! Teachers can easily use a computer to type in the Sunshine State Standards website to look up all of the different standards for each subject as well as each grade level. This simply tells them what is expected in the classroom with their curriculum. Teachers can also build what they call a “connector web” which is a separate way for teachers to look up standards and relay them back to the classroom lesson plans. All the standards are easily accessible for students, parents, and teachers and are helpful to understand and know the basics.

Tech tool:

6.2 Social Bookmarking

Just recently, from this class, I have learned so much about different sites that specialize in book marking your most visited pages on the web. They are a bunch you may chose from that all hold about the same standards. My favorite that I have been using for weeks now is www.Symabloo.com. It is now the homepage on my laptop, which creates such a great convenience for me. Symbaloo holds all of my bookmarked pages that I use everyday. You can set up this site using little tiles across the screen that with one click of your mouse it brings you to the desired page. It is such a helpful tool and is time efficient and creates traveling through browsers a lot easier.

Summary:

Chapter six is based on expressing the convenience the web and technology have supplied with lesson plans, activities, standards, and how to reach beyond barriers. The Internet is such a great to tool for teachers, students, and parents in and out of school. There are activities on different school pages or web pages in general, that children can log into and have lessons with in games to keep them hands on in the material. This chapter expresses that technology has created and abundant about of short cuts to be more time efficient to teachers and students. There are pages created for you to link all of your most visited sites to so you may travel to your destination on the web with out typing a single word, but with just one click of a button. There are tools the Internet can provide to help dismiss and difficulties or barriers teachers and ELL students may have. The Internet is a great tool to simplify things in the classroom, out of the classroom, and in everyday life!