When reading this chapter, I thought that the lesson plan with using Voicethread and doing the storytelling was such a fun activity for getting the students engaged. This is where students can bring in photos of themselves, family members, friends, or pets and the students share their life story with everyone. I went on Voicethread to check it out myself and let me say that just playing around and looking at other Voicethread, I could see myself using this website for my future classroom. While looking through the Voicethread website, it just changes my perspective on technology because it really has expanded throughout the years.This website will bring student together and getting them more involved with each other and creating a community in the classroom. I honestly wish I used this website when I was back in school. I remember using a poster board and having to cut and paste pictures on the poster board about my family and write captions for each picture and having to present it in class. In the lesson plan, it stated the different ways to present this lesson plan because you will have your students who are talkative and love to participate and then you have the students who are shy. This project will really get each child involved just because there is technology involved in it and students are obsessed with using a computer. This chapter is super useful when looking back at lessons that you can use within your classroom in the future.
Monday, February 12, 2018
Chapter 3: Creating Classroom Community and Connecting with Families
In this book Chapter 3 is called, "Creating Classroom Community and Connecting with Families." When reading this chapter, it was very informative because it talked about how children are using tools in order to connect with themselves in the classroom and with their families. This chapter really captured how students in the classroom should be able to connect with themselves as a whole and learn that there are many different cultures within the classroom. My favorite quote that the books states is, "All students who enter the classroom come as members of families, neighborhoods, religious groups, sports team clubs, and organizations, each of which is a community of practice, or a place 'where humans beings develop competence through their interactions with each other' (Crafton, 2006, p.1)" This chapter really captured how students can use different techniques to have every child engaging with their classmates. The book then states, "Classrooms are also communities of practice where each student possesses unique knowledge and perspective that pushes the thinking of other students" Pg.30.
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Hi Kayla! i absolutely agree with you about voice thread. After reading the first two chapters of this book, i still strongly believed that i would not use very much internet in my classroom. After reading about and exploring voice thread I know see how much the internet can really impact students learning and make it fun for them. I also noticed that using voice thread for projects does not limit children to just using technology. Voice Thread is online however, children can still draw their own pictures on paper and upload them to voice thread. It is truly amazing the amount of ways children can express themselves with this one online program.
ReplyDeleteHey Kayla! I strongly agree with you about students who are in a classroom that need to get to know other students as they are connecting with themselves and the people around them. I really enjoyed the different techniques that were mentioned in the book on how students can engage with their classmates because they are able to learn about their culture and the background that they come from. I also really enjoyed reading about voice thread. Voice thread lets all the students become active in their work whether they are shy or always participating and lets one another share their positive feedback!
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