Chapter 6 Reading Reflection

What I learned?

 Chapter six discusses the importance of information management and why it's a necessity when teachers and students utilize learning  resources provided by educational websites and other online sources.  This is known as digital content  which helps to manage information electronically and teach the schools curriculum. This chapter also talks about how A teacher can create their own standards using standards connector. This is a collection of web resources that facilitate teaching required topics. What i found to be most interesting and beneficial about this chapter were all the educational websites they list and describe. I could definitely see how these sites could someday be very useful as a helpful tool for someday when i become a teacher. 

What I Wonder?

 I often times have difficulties organizing information electronically and as a natural instinct will typically write any information i need to know down on paper. This chapter was very helpful in giving me ideas on how to do so, I'm just curious as to what strategy will work best and be easy enough for me to understand. 

Quiz Contribution: Short Answer

What are the six main type educational websites for teachers?

Answer: lesson plan websites, student-to-expert communication websites, real-time and recorded data websites, archival and primary source websites, skills/practice websites, and exploration and discovery websites 

Reading Reflection: Chapter 4

Reading Reflection: 

Chapter four is all about technology integration and educational change to help teacher's infuse technology into both classroom instruction and professional work. The chapter went into detail and listed examples of 3 main primary ways teachers can use technology to teach their students. These 3 main ways are inside-theclassroom teaching tools, outside-the-classroom professional resources, and outside-the-learning-classroom learning experiences for students. The chapter also talks about how to integrate  technology into the classroom and the stages and issues that are involved when doing so. What i found most interesting in the chapter was the section about the digital divide, digital inequality, and participation gap. I was very surprised to find the discrepancy between the number of white's that have access to a computer compared to the number of students that are African American or Hispanic.

What I Wonder? 

Because of Technology Integration and Educational change is it better to stick with type one technology because of the simplicity compared to the complications you might be faced with using type two technology?

Quiz Contribution: Short Answer

What is the difference between inclusion and infusion?

answer: Inclusion means using computers and other technologies are mainly used for traditional purposes vs. infusion with is used for on going features of teaching and learning. 

Reading Reflection: ch.5

What I learned?

 How students and teachers can find important information and evaluate the internet as a teaching and learning environment. The chapter also discussed different search engines and how they work. Search engines work by gathering information from a software program that uses network's of computers to access info about a topic from its database. What i found fascinating is how fast a search engine propels an internet connected computer instantaneously through millions of web pages to locate topic related sites. 

What I Wonder?

How can you make it easier to determine weather or not the online information your using is accurate and appropriate. 

Quiz Contribution: Multiple choice 

Out of all the search engines out there which one is most popular?

a. bing b. google c. yahoo d. dog pile- Answer: B