Blog Prompts

The first blog prompt that I would do would be dealing with the subject of Math. This is an unusual thing to blog about, but I think that this prompt would help kids answer a question that they have been asking teachers for years. The blog prompt would be: Relate today’s math lesson to how it is useful in real life. I feel like Students in every classroom ask their self or their teacher this question way too much. If we get our students to ask their self this question and come up with the answer their self, we will help them know that what they are learning in Math class has a purpose. In grade school I would find myself wondering what the purpose of learning may things was and often my teachers would not answer me so I feel that this blog prompt would answer a lot of those questions on its own.

The second subject that I would like to use blogs for would be Social Studies. The blog Prompt might be something like: How did the civil war effect our country today. This helps students think and reflect on those times and think about present times as well. Social studies would be a great place to use blogs because some students do not think that it is very beneficial to learn about our country’s history because of the fact that it has already happened. What they do not understand is that “History repeats itself”. As a class we can notice those patterns and analyze them. Like myself, some students are very into history and on the other hand some do not see the point of learning it, but if we make them reflect on what has happened in our country them they might have a better understanding of what is going on in our world and how history plays into that.

Ed Tech Experience

I spent all of my schooling in the Autauga County School system. For Elementary School I went to Daniel Pratt Elementary School and for my secondary schooling I went to Prattville Junior High School and Prattville High School. I am proud I grew  up in this school system. The teachers always tried their best to help you in any way they could, but we did not see as much technology in the classroom as I see in classrooms now.  In Elementary School I honestly did not have a lot of experiences with technology. Of course looking back on it that was almost ten years ago for me. Technology in our schools has changed a lot. I do not remember a big Smart Board in the front of the classroom, tablets used by every student, or the teacher using a laptop at all except to check attendance in our class. Besides the movies that we watched in the classroom on the TV, the most technology I remember is the “laptop cart” that would occasionally come rolling into our classroom. This consisted of a big file cabinet that also served as a storage case for about 25 laptop computers that only worked when you didn’t need them to and almost broke at the sight of students looking at them. Also I can’t forget about the overhead projectors! This is probably where my technology problems stem from. Of course we had classroom computers, but the teachers did not let us get on them that much because we were constantly doing other things. As I progressed into High School I did start to see more technology arising. Smart Boards started showing up in every classroom that I went into. Also, Our band directors started showing us our performances on the big screen in our band room. Teachers started expecting us to work with the internet a lot more as well to write research papers and other things. At the High School level we had to complete a Computer Applications class in order to satisfy our graduation requirements as well. As we can see I did not have a lot of experience with technology before college. I think that technology is growing so much that it is impossible for  teacher to not know about today’s new technology. Overall, technology helps you so much in the long run. Teachers can do so much today with it that my teachers never could have imagined.