Thanksgiving Assignment

When it comes to teaching, teachers act as designers because they use creativity and planning to create lesson plans. The creativity of a teacher can be seen when teachers have to create fun lessons that engage the class quickly and efficiently. Teachers are also like designers because they are able to be unique and come up with things specific to their students and their classrooms to help their students succeed the best like decorating the classroom and creating assignments.

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, art, and share your creations on the web. As people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch can be used in the classroom during PowerPoint or video presentations.

Digital Storytelling is a program that puts primary focus on integrating technology in activities with more infuses on the activity. During digital storytelling, students tell a story digitally while working with other classmates. A digital story is a 2-to-4 minute digital video clip, most often told in first person narrative, recorded with your own voice, illustrated mostly with still images, and with an optional music track to add emotional tone. In my classroom I would use digital storytelling for many purposes, but primarily for teaching technology and teaching team work within the classroom.

Methods suggested in the textbook that can help students visualize mathematical concepts include the use of graphing calculators. Graphing calculators help students simply problems because of its capability to plot graphs, solve simultaneous equations, and perform numerous other tasks with variables. The graphing calculators can help students understand math while making it easy to focus on tougher concepts.

I think that it is very possible to learn from the television alone. The majority of shows on the television nowadays have how to viewings and channels like the cooking channel and do it yourself channel. I think that, of course, without trying the techniques on the shows you may not be successful, but part of learning is making mistakes. Not all things should be learned through television, but some things can be learned, even with little to no written instruction.

Jonassen, D., Howland, J., Marra, R. M., & Crismond, D. (2008). Meaningful Learning With Technology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.