Blog Post #13

1. Back to the Future
What a fantastic video, the kids were using technology with their studies and appeared to really be habing fun doing so. This video showed me how the children didn't necesarily learn directly from the technology, it was just there to help them! They used that technology to help them learn and grow outside of the classroom. Mr. Crosby was my kind of teacher, he used to technology to show the children things, but then allowed them to go out and experience things first hand. The children worked with there hands and then would use technology to share their experiments with the world!!! Mr. Crosby was a great a teacher, he was the kind of man that believed in using technology but not absolutely relying on it to teach his students. He was a great man and a true inspiration for all future teachers.

2.Blended learnig cycle
Paul Anderson combines Blended learning and the Learning Cycle into something that is his very own system which he calls QUIVERS. This is an arcronym for Question, Investigation, Video, Elaboration, Review, and Summary quiz. He tries to pose questions for the class to allow them to debate and investigate the answers. He uses technology to show the answer and help the class. The class then takes the answer and tries to disect it and teach each other something they didn't notice before. This is a fun and interesting approach to teaching, it gives the students the confidence to look for the answer and even when they get it wrong they are given the chance to fix it and help their peers. I love this and I really feel like it could be good in a classroom, it gets the kids working together and not struggling on their own. If a child doesn't understand something this teaching approach shows kids that they aren't alone and can work together and fix the outcome. It's great and I know any teacher could use this in almost in classroom. (I didn't post any images to go along with this blog post because my computer has decided to be a total butt, sorry.)