Over the past 5 years, my thoughts on my teaching have
changed drastically. I now understand in order to reach students I must change.
I must continue to be open to new possibilities. Education is swiftly changing with
the introduction of free Open Source educational materials. This summer I had
an opportunity to attend the first Open Education Conference in the country -http://www.openedjam.org
Open Education simply means free high quality resources for educators and in
this day of technology free is definitely good. One of the many take aways of
the conference was my introduction to https://www.opened.io/#!
. This online resource makes available
assessments that are aligned to common core and the alignment to Texas TEKS will be
added soon. This resource includes formative assessments in the form of games, activities
and videos. In addition, through this resource, teachers can track student
progress.
I spoke shared information
about www.ck12.org . These resources enables
educators to edit existing math and science textbooks, use pre-made quizzes or
create personalized quizzes, In
addition, this resource includes real world lesson ideas, videos, and study
aids.
I do not know a great
deal about Open Education so I am enrolling in a class through Stanford
University http://goo.gl/xSkjqq I recently complete a course –How to learn
Math for Students-https://class.stanford.edu/courses/Education/EDUC115-S/Spring2014/about
This class was very eye opening for me as an
educator. It explored many misconceptions able learning math.
I am very excited about the opportunity to teach next year. I plan to incorporate new found techniques and
activities for students. This year I will be including Texas Instruments handheld
technology in order to deliver activities and real-world lessons to my
students.
The use of Edmodo is
important because I can send assignments from www.ck12.org
to my students while they are in the Edmodo
platform. The assignments are graded through the ck12 platform and the results
are delivered to me in my Edmodo account.
Yes, this year will prove to be challenging for me. My hope
is that my excitement about new knowledge will spill over to my students.
