Digital Blog Post F: Chapters 11&12

1. Test Assessments & Performance Evaluations
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While I was going through school, ninety percent of our assessments were all with a piece of paper and a pencil. Thankfully with the growth of technology, testing information is becoming more fun and interactive. With the hundreds of Web 2.0 tools that are available alongside powerpoint, oral assessments, self assessments, and digital profiles, learning and testing curriculum information is becoming more interactive than ever before. In my classroom, I hope to implement different kinds of technology to teach lessons and to test the information within those lessons. Keeping students active, involved, and eager is essential. With the use of technological tools from a young age, students will be fluent in them by the time and they graduate. Within their every day lives after graduation, the use of Web 2.0 tools can only enhance their working experiences.

Made by Sierra Myers using Piktochart

2. Digital Portfolios for Students 
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Before the rise of the internet and computers, student records were all kept on paper files in file cabinets. They were hard to locate {unless you were extremely organized} and a pain in the you-know-what to store. Previous to this class, I truthfully could not stand how much technology was being implemented within the classrooms. Now that I have successfully used many educational tools, I cannot wait to use them within my own room. Among those, digital portfolios are by far one of the best tools that can be used. It makes it so much easier to record grades and keep students records all together in their own files. They are easy to keep organized and to locate when the time is needed. I will absolutely be using digital portfolios in my classrooms!

3. Features of a Technology-Integrated Classroom 
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I remember being in seventh grade and the school I went to was the first in the city to get Smart Boards within their classrooms. Now, it is abnormal if a class doesn't have a smart board or some time of white board projector and smart pens. In today's classroom, normally you will see computers with internet, iPads, a tv, DVD player, Smart Board, interactive white board, and a projector. Curricula across the state, and even the nation, has become much more interactive and fun for kids to learn. The endless resources are incredible. Although I did not have access to them as a child, I know my students will use different technologies in order to learn in groups and individually.

Resources

Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.

Myers, Sierra. (Photograph). (2015). Technology In The Classroom. [photograph]. Cape Coral, Florida.

Technology in Education: A Future Classroom. By Daniel Nemroff. Youtube. Nemroff Pictures, n.d. Web. 19 June 2015.