For the first blog I read this week it was more like a movie by Mr. Fisch titled "What Will You Learn Today?" and the whole short video was about students being in charge of their learning. In this video in the blog it had very little words, but a very big meaning behind those very few words.
In the two sentences in the blog is very important and the thing that is so important is students learn what they want to learn. When you ask the question "What will you learn today?" it is kind of referring to what you want to learn and what you want to listen to. I have never thought of it that way, but I think that it is completely true. When a student is not interested in something they will more than likely not listen to what it is about, but when you do that then you are kind of making the decision to no have that knowledge that might become useful to you in the future. It seems kind of scary when you think about learning that way because you can't really force a student to want to learn, they also have to want it to, to be able to learn. When a student take control of what they have to learn and what they want to learn that is where they kind of mess up. Lets just say I think to be successful you have to want to learn everything and to be open minded about learning.
Friday, November 16, 2007
PLN week 11-2
This week I read a blog that was about alcohol titled "Why???" by Crosby. In this blog he asked the questions
This matters to me because alcohol is the reason why I don't know my father and why he left my brother, sister, mom and I when I was so young. It ruend his life because just recently I was given a chance to know him and he told me that when I was young he drank a lot and wouldn't be good to my mom, and I would hear stories of him doing this and that and what kind of person he was and I kind of thank him for leaving because of the person people portrayed him as when I didn't know him. It is not fun not knowing who your father is and that is why this blog kind of stuck out to me and also this problem of alcohol and drugs.
"Why is alcohol a protected drug?"Then he askes
"If Joe Camel got yanked off of ads because he appealed to kids, then why isWhat I thought mattered form this blog was the issue of alcohol and what is does and how it effects me. This was an interesting blog for me because alcohool is a big problem in our world today including other types of drugs. There are so many people messing up their lives with alcohol and drugs and people doing wrong. This problem getting in the way of what they want to accomplish and how people get addicted to it and not know how to stop.
Captain Morgan still used?
This matters to me because alcohol is the reason why I don't know my father and why he left my brother, sister, mom and I when I was so young. It ruend his life because just recently I was given a chance to know him and he told me that when I was young he drank a lot and wouldn't be good to my mom, and I would hear stories of him doing this and that and what kind of person he was and I kind of thank him for leaving because of the person people portrayed him as when I didn't know him. It is not fun not knowing who your father is and that is why this blog kind of stuck out to me and also this problem of alcohol and drugs.
Friday, November 9, 2007
PLN week 9-2
This week for my second entry I am going to talk about this blog by JamesH titled "group work", and it was about how students and how they react to group work and comparing them with when they are not doing group work. He said that when students are working together they can't stop asking questions, but when they are working individually they need to ask more questions.
This is kind of true because in my math class this is how it is. Then I don't think he should be so upset about it because maybe it is good because they have more of a thing to worry about than themselves because it is the other persons grade not just theirs. A question that comes to mind it how do they do when they are paired up compared to when they are by themselves?
For me I am kind of like that because when I work in a group we kind of all think differently and think of a question different ways because we are not all the same and look and answer things in different ways and like in my last blog some teachers don't really explain what they expect out of us very good. When that happens our minds are just every where and we really don' t know what to do and some of us just assume, but some of us ask questions.
This is kind of true because in my math class this is how it is. Then I don't think he should be so upset about it because maybe it is good because they have more of a thing to worry about than themselves because it is the other persons grade not just theirs. A question that comes to mind it how do they do when they are paired up compared to when they are by themselves?
For me I am kind of like that because when I work in a group we kind of all think differently and think of a question different ways because we are not all the same and look and answer things in different ways and like in my last blog some teachers don't really explain what they expect out of us very good. When that happens our minds are just every where and we really don' t know what to do and some of us just assume, but some of us ask questions.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
PLN week 9-1
This week I read a very interesting article by Meyer titled "November...Already???", it is about how students should by November and this far into the school years students should be taking control of their learning and how their learning is going so far.
He thought that his classes were going well and thought that a majority of his students are taking taking control of their learning and that they are very focus and serious about it. On the other hand thought there are some areas of struggle for them, such as their first test. The part that they really struggled with was vocabulary and being able to identify problems and also being able to know what the instructor wanted form them in their assignments.
Some times I also feel like that, some times my teachers don't do a very good job at explaining what they want out of the assignment, but them again if I don't understand it is my responsibility to go and say that I don't understand, so for these older students it shouldn't be a problem. In this blog one of his students had just got back from visiting a collage campus and she sat in a political science class and kind of compared her teacher and their class to the collage teacher and class. She thought that they were doing the exact same thing that they were doing, but she thought that her teacher and the collage professor were different. She thought that the professor was more clear and understanding, but then again was more of a lecturer. While on the other hand her teacher was less of a lecturer and a little less of understanding. Yeah the collage students understood what they were to do, but think about how they are going to do if they don't understand how to do it because there is a differece between understanding what to do and how to do it. My teachers yes are don't really explain what to do on an assingment well, but when I do understand I know what to do it is easyier for me to know how to do it.
He thought that his classes were going well and thought that a majority of his students are taking taking control of their learning and that they are very focus and serious about it. On the other hand thought there are some areas of struggle for them, such as their first test. The part that they really struggled with was vocabulary and being able to identify problems and also being able to know what the instructor wanted form them in their assignments.
Some times I also feel like that, some times my teachers don't do a very good job at explaining what they want out of the assignment, but them again if I don't understand it is my responsibility to go and say that I don't understand, so for these older students it shouldn't be a problem. In this blog one of his students had just got back from visiting a collage campus and she sat in a political science class and kind of compared her teacher and their class to the collage teacher and class. She thought that they were doing the exact same thing that they were doing, but she thought that her teacher and the collage professor were different. She thought that the professor was more clear and understanding, but then again was more of a lecturer. While on the other hand her teacher was less of a lecturer and a little less of understanding. Yeah the collage students understood what they were to do, but think about how they are going to do if they don't understand how to do it because there is a differece between understanding what to do and how to do it. My teachers yes are don't really explain what to do on an assingment well, but when I do understand I know what to do it is easyier for me to know how to do it.
Saturday, November 3, 2007
PLN week 8-1
This week I read an interesting blog by Dave titled "Parents & Internet-Using Teens", it was about the Internet and how it is being used, weather it is good or bad, or how it depends on how you use and what you use it for.
I personally think that the Internet is good if you use it properly. There are some who don't really protect themselves from what is on there and I think that is where the bad part comes form because then it because another stressful thing that you have to worry about. I mainly use my computer for homework and information, that is about it, I don't have a myspace or anything like that. I do have a email. That is why I have such a positive out look at what the Internet is all about.
For those who do use it in the wrong ways do have a different look at the Internet. Yeah it is fun, but when something happens it is not so fun after all. I think that everyone should just be a little bit care full about what they are putting out there and how they are using their computers.
Not using the Internet and computers right is one of the reasons schools block certain things out. It is because there are some people out there who just are not disaplind enough to know what is right or wrong, or what put you out there in a way no one wants to be put out there.
I personally think that the Internet is good if you use it properly. There are some who don't really protect themselves from what is on there and I think that is where the bad part comes form because then it because another stressful thing that you have to worry about. I mainly use my computer for homework and information, that is about it, I don't have a myspace or anything like that. I do have a email. That is why I have such a positive out look at what the Internet is all about.
For those who do use it in the wrong ways do have a different look at the Internet. Yeah it is fun, but when something happens it is not so fun after all. I think that everyone should just be a little bit care full about what they are putting out there and how they are using their computers.
Not using the Internet and computers right is one of the reasons schools block certain things out. It is because there are some people out there who just are not disaplind enough to know what is right or wrong, or what put you out there in a way no one wants to be put out there.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
PLN week 8-2
I read this interesting article by Mr. Fisch titled "Speaking From the Soul", this article was about how teachers these days are very passionate, caring and how much work they put into what they do. In this article he uses this one teacher as an example.
This teacher was a kind of a writer who wrote only for her satisfaction and was very reluctant of sharing her work. Part of this article was also about being able to be a good teacher and part of that is having a good relationship with your students, which plays in a part of how passionate they are with what they do. This teacher shared her own private thoughts in her poem to her class, it was not exactly easy for her because even though she is a long time teacher who is very experience at what she does, it was not so easy to stand up there and share a poem that was written for her and share it with a bunch of young teenagers. I think it was a good decision to do this because it gave her students a different picture of her and helped in a way build a trust and a new relationship, because there are somethings that you only share with certain people that you trust and care about.
I can really relate to her and her situation because I am a very private writer. I really don't like to share my work and I keep a diary and other types of writing that I have written just for me and I really don't share it with no one not even my cousin, or my sister who are two of the most trusting people in my life. I think it would be very hard to go and read it to people who you don't really know all that well, but you take a chance to make that connection with your students.
I read her poem and it is a poem that is very much about her and a poem that makes you understand where she is from, about her family and about her experiences. Letting all that out is not that easy especially when you wrote it just for yourself.
"Cotton Farmers and Gamblers"
This teacher was a kind of a writer who wrote only for her satisfaction and was very reluctant of sharing her work. Part of this article was also about being able to be a good teacher and part of that is having a good relationship with your students, which plays in a part of how passionate they are with what they do. This teacher shared her own private thoughts in her poem to her class, it was not exactly easy for her because even though she is a long time teacher who is very experience at what she does, it was not so easy to stand up there and share a poem that was written for her and share it with a bunch of young teenagers. I think it was a good decision to do this because it gave her students a different picture of her and helped in a way build a trust and a new relationship, because there are somethings that you only share with certain people that you trust and care about.
I can really relate to her and her situation because I am a very private writer. I really don't like to share my work and I keep a diary and other types of writing that I have written just for me and I really don't share it with no one not even my cousin, or my sister who are two of the most trusting people in my life. I think it would be very hard to go and read it to people who you don't really know all that well, but you take a chance to make that connection with your students.
I read her poem and it is a poem that is very much about her and a poem that makes you understand where she is from, about her family and about her experiences. Letting all that out is not that easy especially when you wrote it just for yourself.
"Cotton Farmers and Gamblers"
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