Survey Technologies and Blog Reflections As an educator, I would use a tools like Qualtrics and Excel to better understand the needs of my students and receive better feedback for my teaching. I would likely give out a survey at the end of the year to my students and likely their parents so that I could discern what aspects of my profession I would need to improve on. I would also probably use excel as a way of organizing grades and assignments, in case the institution I work with does not have that kind of technology. I plan on spending lots of time with students and schools of low socio-economic status, so these technologies can absolutely help me perform my best as a teacher. The most interesting topics I have found by reading my peers' blogs is perhaps the integration of technologies like virtual reality and augmented reality in the classroom. I feel that there is near limitless potential for these kinds of technologies to evolve and grow to accommodate the needs of ...
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OER's, Flipped Classrooms and PowerPoint I very much like the concept of the flipped classroom. Basically, instead of the entire learning process taking place within the hour of a class during school, including lectures and preparation, lessons are prepared by the teachers and disseminated to the students online. This allows all of class time to be used for students to advance the concepts they were introduced to. When class ends, they can return to the lesson prep and reflect on the concepts that they have started on. I think that this is a much more effective method of learning, and should be implemented in many classrooms. OER's are resources, such as textbooks, lectures, and software, that are open and free to use by students and educators alike. These kinds of resources make learning of all kinds more accessible to disadvantaged students. OER Commons is an online database dedicated to compiling these resources from different disciplines, all of it free and e...