WEEK 4 - Tech EDGE: Mobile Learning in the Classroom
TECH EDGE: The world of Education at your very fingertips (through your iPad!)
This Youtube channel is very amazing. It is based out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Education and Human Sciences. It seems to cover every single topic you could ever need to know about in the field of Education! Any topic from Science, History Games, Pokemon Go!, Reading, Exit Tickets, ESL, or general APPs helpful for teachers and students for general learning can be found in that channel. This Youtube channel is run by Dr. Guy Trainin who is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who sure knows his stuff! His knowledge on the topic of technology and how it can implemented in the classroom is mind-blowing to me! I am so thankful for people like him who spend their time using their expertise in a certain area to see and help others grow in that same area.
I enjoyed looking through this channel and seeing all the different videos! There were so many that I almost felt overwhelmed, but the way that the channel is set up is helpful, with the videos put under certain categories. Looking at 10 videos in one category versus hundreds is much more straight-forward and un-intimidating in my opinion, and this channel did a good job of that.
I was SO surprised to see some of the interesting subject titles on the channel! Such as the Pokemon Go! video - I would not think at first that that game could or would be seen as a tool in the classroom...I think of it as anything but that! I would assume it would be seen as a nuisance and a distraction in the classroom, but Dr. Trainin and his guest Zoe Falls discuss how the game Pokemon Go! can be used as a learning tool. They discuss how the game can be a spring-board for a few different reasons. It can give kids the urge to go outside and discover the things around them into their community. It can be a good geography tool, because kids are looking at the coordinates of the Poke balls and learning how to follow a map to find a destination. It can use problem-solving skills by having them have to decide where they want to go and what would be the best way for their physical bodies to get there while following a virtual them (like having to cross a street, a creek, etc.)
This Youtube channel seems like a great tool and will definitely be something I come back to quite often!
APP 1 REVIEW: Socrative Teacher
This APP would be a nice one to use, super simple and helpful.
Socrative is an APP I could easily use for quizzes in my Elementary Ed class.
This APP allows you as the teacher to make quizzes real quick and easy, and categorizes those quizzes and results in very straight-forward places and is fast and easy to figure out. Students can get plugged in to it real quickly. There are also ways to create Exit-tickets right as your students are about to leave so that they can fill out a Formative Assessment real quick so you as the teacher can tell what each student understood out of the lesson and what you should put into your next lesson to teach them further.
~Price: FREE
~Pros: Easy to use, quick, not confusing, easy to figure out and use
~Cons: Not super easy to practice without actual students, but that's ok :)
~This APP would work great for any level of upper elementary to middle school
~Available for formal quizzes, comments, exit slips, discussions, pop quizzes, polls.
~Here's a tutorial on how to work the app! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsmK1HA0Llk
~I think this APP would be good for learning, as it is quick and easy and to the point. It would work especially well for formative quizzes here and there, for polls if there's an opinion-based decision around the corner that you'd want your students' opinions on, or for Exit-tickets.
APP 2 REVIEW: TeacherKit
"The Number One Classroom Management Tool"
This APP...WOW...has it all! This APP is essentially an online organizer or planner. It's got places to record grades, it has a seating chart organizer, it has a way to record positive and negative behaviors of specific students (although I don' t know how much I'd need an online recorder to record that info) and much more! Essentially, it is in an online personal organizer.
~Price: FREE! (although there were pieces of the APP that you had to have a Premium version of the APP before you could use it, all pieces that seemed like essential aspects of the APP)
~Pros: easy to use, quick to figure out with a tutorial, all different aspects of managing your class right in front of you in one spot
~Cons: the seemingly essential aspects of the APP are only available with a purchase of the Premium APP
~This APP would be great for managing and organizing any age level class
~Platforms include keeping up grades, average grades for the class, individual student profiles, seating charts, etc.
~There is a tutorial that the APP takes you through when you go into the APP for the first time, which is very straight-forward and instructive and helpful. It shows you all the different buttons, what they mean and how to use them, and how to scroll throughout the APP.
~This APP is for Teachers and not for Students. It is a helpful APP for teachers to be student-centered and organized with updated information on how each student is doing.
I could for sure use this APP in my Elementary Education classes for organization, management, and inter - and intrapersonal communication with myself, students, and students' parents.
Check out Tech EDGE's video on Exit Tickets:
TECH EDGE: The world of Education at your very fingertips (through your iPad!)
This Youtube channel is very amazing. It is based out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Education and Human Sciences. It seems to cover every single topic you could ever need to know about in the field of Education! Any topic from Science, History Games, Pokemon Go!, Reading, Exit Tickets, ESL, or general APPs helpful for teachers and students for general learning can be found in that channel. This Youtube channel is run by Dr. Guy Trainin who is an associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who sure knows his stuff! His knowledge on the topic of technology and how it can implemented in the classroom is mind-blowing to me! I am so thankful for people like him who spend their time using their expertise in a certain area to see and help others grow in that same area.
I enjoyed looking through this channel and seeing all the different videos! There were so many that I almost felt overwhelmed, but the way that the channel is set up is helpful, with the videos put under certain categories. Looking at 10 videos in one category versus hundreds is much more straight-forward and un-intimidating in my opinion, and this channel did a good job of that.
I was SO surprised to see some of the interesting subject titles on the channel! Such as the Pokemon Go! video - I would not think at first that that game could or would be seen as a tool in the classroom...I think of it as anything but that! I would assume it would be seen as a nuisance and a distraction in the classroom, but Dr. Trainin and his guest Zoe Falls discuss how the game Pokemon Go! can be used as a learning tool. They discuss how the game can be a spring-board for a few different reasons. It can give kids the urge to go outside and discover the things around them into their community. It can be a good geography tool, because kids are looking at the coordinates of the Poke balls and learning how to follow a map to find a destination. It can use problem-solving skills by having them have to decide where they want to go and what would be the best way for their physical bodies to get there while following a virtual them (like having to cross a street, a creek, etc.)
This Youtube channel seems like a great tool and will definitely be something I come back to quite often!
APP 1 REVIEW: Socrative Teacher
This APP would be a nice one to use, super simple and helpful.
Socrative is an APP I could easily use for quizzes in my Elementary Ed class.
This APP allows you as the teacher to make quizzes real quick and easy, and categorizes those quizzes and results in very straight-forward places and is fast and easy to figure out. Students can get plugged in to it real quickly. There are also ways to create Exit-tickets right as your students are about to leave so that they can fill out a Formative Assessment real quick so you as the teacher can tell what each student understood out of the lesson and what you should put into your next lesson to teach them further.
~Price: FREE
~Pros: Easy to use, quick, not confusing, easy to figure out and use
~Cons: Not super easy to practice without actual students, but that's ok :)
~This APP would work great for any level of upper elementary to middle school
~Available for formal quizzes, comments, exit slips, discussions, pop quizzes, polls.
~Here's a tutorial on how to work the app! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsmK1HA0Llk
~I think this APP would be good for learning, as it is quick and easy and to the point. It would work especially well for formative quizzes here and there, for polls if there's an opinion-based decision around the corner that you'd want your students' opinions on, or for Exit-tickets.
APP 2 REVIEW: TeacherKit
"The Number One Classroom Management Tool"
This APP...WOW...has it all! This APP is essentially an online organizer or planner. It's got places to record grades, it has a seating chart organizer, it has a way to record positive and negative behaviors of specific students (although I don' t know how much I'd need an online recorder to record that info) and much more! Essentially, it is in an online personal organizer.
~Price: FREE! (although there were pieces of the APP that you had to have a Premium version of the APP before you could use it, all pieces that seemed like essential aspects of the APP)
~Pros: easy to use, quick to figure out with a tutorial, all different aspects of managing your class right in front of you in one spot
~Cons: the seemingly essential aspects of the APP are only available with a purchase of the Premium APP
~This APP would be great for managing and organizing any age level class
~Platforms include keeping up grades, average grades for the class, individual student profiles, seating charts, etc.
~There is a tutorial that the APP takes you through when you go into the APP for the first time, which is very straight-forward and instructive and helpful. It shows you all the different buttons, what they mean and how to use them, and how to scroll throughout the APP.
~This APP is for Teachers and not for Students. It is a helpful APP for teachers to be student-centered and organized with updated information on how each student is doing.
I could for sure use this APP in my Elementary Education classes for organization, management, and inter - and intrapersonal communication with myself, students, and students' parents.
Check out Tech EDGE's video on Exit Tickets: