EME2040 Emily English

It is hard to believe that we have reached the final blog post. As much as people may have lamented it, I find that I will miss my weekly EME2040 updates. I for sure, in the future, will keep a blog, especially when I actually become a teacher and need to share information with peers, students, and parents. What a beautiful, rewarding journey this has been. For my final blog, I will be talking about data collection and reporting, classmates' blogs, and other new technologies. I think as a teacher, I will probably use programs like Surveys and Excel quite a bit to use for data collection and reporting. I think that surveys will be a good tool to not only get to know my students, but also to know how parents think I am teaching their children. I think this is a good way to anonymously submit information that can help me improve in my own work in the classroom. I could also use Excel to not only keep track of the reporting of this data but for many other things as well. I think Exce...

Hello friends! This week I will talk about "The Flipped Classroom," open educational resources, and some of the skills I gained from my PowerPoint project. In class, we briefly discussed a flipped classroom, where a lot of learning in the classroom is focused not only in class but out of class as well. Before class, students do their own research into class concepts to introduce them into the knowledge they need for actual class. They take notes and note their questions for discussion in class. When they finally get to class, instead of engaging in lectures and teaching, students participate in activities like group discussions and one-to-one interactions with teachers and apply the concepts that taught themselves at home. Finally, after class, students continue to process and check their understanding and proving their knowledge through application and evaluation. In addition, we touched on open educational resources (OER). OERs are resources that anyone can use freely in ...