The tools of technology that I learned this week have already proven to be extremely useful. I am using my Yahoo! Briefcase a lot and would have loved to know of this while working on my undergrad. I often found myself on campus with approximately 2 hours with a cancelled class and wishing i could be working on an assignment due some time there after. The Yahoo! Briefcase would have enabled me to have access to these files anywhere. The Groups on Yahoo! also will prove to be extremely affective during my formative years as a teacher along with my credentialing process. To be able to tap into resources of willing teachers and grow with other young teachers as we help each other on the group message boards.
I agree with the article and feel that there are different ways that students learn but at the same time there are structured similarities between all. Although all students do not share the same preconceptions it is true that the ones they have shape they way they learn. With technology students can challenge these preconceptions and help them learn factual information. The art of thinking about thinking, metacogniton, is how psychologists have found students to be the most effective and efficient learners. It is a difficult and challenging task to get rid of preconceptions and also to develop the art of metacognition, but these are two steps that will help students to become well equiped learners.
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sweet blog man... that really was interesting
I guess, I'm kind oflucky in the sense that I still have a 2 years left. I now get to use this through my credintals, and hey, at least now, we know about it. It's never too late to learn anything, and it's always nice to learn about things that make our lives a little eaiser.
I didn't know about the Yahoo! Briefcase either. It's amazing how much the internet has to offer, that we don't know about. I like the Yahoo! Groups a lot! It's great that we could find resources like this, where teachers can help teachers. I was observing a classroom on thursday and I was talking about how nervous I was about lesson plans and the actual function of the classroom. The teacher assured me that I would be find, as long as I had a network of other teachers who I could lean on. I think that the Yahoo! Groups is the place where networks can be made!
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