WEEK 14 REVIEW - Shelly Fryer inspires many with her innovating ideas for enhancing and bettering her students' lives!
It seems fitting that I began this semester with writing my first Review on Shelly Fryer and am now ending it with her as well! She has so many ideas and blogs and experiences to share that are helpful that spurs inspiration and growth in other Educators. I loved reading the "About" tab on Shelly's website, because she sounds like an amazing woman. She works for Oklahoma's only school for students who are homeless, Positive Tomorrows. I want to work with students who aren't in advantageous situations, because I think those students are some of the kids who need teachers who care about them and their future the most. I want to work with students who have Special Needs or students who are in low-income families and lower SES situations, and the care and attention and compassion that Shelly displays clearly on her website when talking about her students and classroom warms my heart and inspires me!
One thing that I love about Shelly Fryer's blog is that I really like her perspective on the purpose of technology in the classroom! Personally, after taking Educational Technology for this semester, I have learned the benefits of technology in the classroom (like iPads and computers, etc.) and seen how I could implement them into my own classroom with thoughtfulness and purpose. Here's a quote of Shelly discussing what the purose of technology in the classroom is and why it's helpful to her students' growth and learning: "We’re striving to use technology in authentic and meaningful ways which deepen our learning, build our relationships with each other, and help us to love learning as we also happen to be studying different topics in our curriculum." I really like how she talks about her students growing in relationship with one another through the use of technology, which I've seen from the different videos on Shelly's blog website where her students work together on projects, assignments, and personal responses, and they seem like they really band together and work well together through that. I love that! I can tell from Shelly's website that implementing technology into my classroom will only be a positive addition and connecting factor between my students and I, and my students between other students!
I also found it quite interesting that she just talked about QR codes previously on her blog, and one of her QR codes lessons was on....none other than the History of Thanksgiving! I thought that was funny because that's exactly what my QR Codes Activities project was on, that's under my Projects tab here on my website. Great minds think alike, I guess? :)
It seems fitting that I began this semester with writing my first Review on Shelly Fryer and am now ending it with her as well! She has so many ideas and blogs and experiences to share that are helpful that spurs inspiration and growth in other Educators. I loved reading the "About" tab on Shelly's website, because she sounds like an amazing woman. She works for Oklahoma's only school for students who are homeless, Positive Tomorrows. I want to work with students who aren't in advantageous situations, because I think those students are some of the kids who need teachers who care about them and their future the most. I want to work with students who have Special Needs or students who are in low-income families and lower SES situations, and the care and attention and compassion that Shelly displays clearly on her website when talking about her students and classroom warms my heart and inspires me!
One thing that I love about Shelly Fryer's blog is that I really like her perspective on the purpose of technology in the classroom! Personally, after taking Educational Technology for this semester, I have learned the benefits of technology in the classroom (like iPads and computers, etc.) and seen how I could implement them into my own classroom with thoughtfulness and purpose. Here's a quote of Shelly discussing what the purose of technology in the classroom is and why it's helpful to her students' growth and learning: "We’re striving to use technology in authentic and meaningful ways which deepen our learning, build our relationships with each other, and help us to love learning as we also happen to be studying different topics in our curriculum." I really like how she talks about her students growing in relationship with one another through the use of technology, which I've seen from the different videos on Shelly's blog website where her students work together on projects, assignments, and personal responses, and they seem like they really band together and work well together through that. I love that! I can tell from Shelly's website that implementing technology into my classroom will only be a positive addition and connecting factor between my students and I, and my students between other students!
I also found it quite interesting that she just talked about QR codes previously on her blog, and one of her QR codes lessons was on....none other than the History of Thanksgiving! I thought that was funny because that's exactly what my QR Codes Activities project was on, that's under my Projects tab here on my website. Great minds think alike, I guess? :)