Blog Assignment #7

How do we all become learners?

   To start off I would like to say all of these videos have given me great ideas for my future classroom. I plan on using basically all of the tools that I will soon describe in this post. I never actually realized how much elementary age students in this area were using all of the tools accessible on their iPads/MacBooks.
    How To Make An Audio QR Code teaches you how to create a QR code and also to make it an audio recording. I have never worked with QR codes before, but after watching this video I decided to play around with them. I found that they are quite handy. I plan on using them in my classroom for my students to use and learn from.
   In the video about iPad Centers Mrs. Tuck shows how she uses the iPad with her students to record themselves reading. After they record themselves, they review the video and follow along in the book to check for any mistakes. This is a wonderful way for students to self-correct themselves. I definitely plan on using this in my classroom to help teach my future students to read and correct their own errors so that they can become better readers!
   Poplets as a Center is another video Mrs. Tuck has that shows how to create  Poplets. Poplets is an app where children can design a web for whatever subject matter that is being covered. They can add picture and their own words. Poplets are a great tool for the elementary school age to learn with. I plan on using this app for my future class to help them learn to group different criteria together, whether is be letters or words.
   Mrs. Tuck also lets her students have an Alabama Virtual Library Center. In this center her class gets to use the AVL to search for different books for their reading level. On the AVL the students can find their books and even have the books read to them. This gives the child access to read along and helps them learn new words and pronunciation.
   Mrs. Shirley's first grade class shows us how to create a Board For PBL. These boards can have pictures and words explaining the criteria that the student chooses. In this video the teacher and the student are both teaching the viewer how to work the board in the DE. I think it is wonderful that not only the teacher is teaching, but also the student! You can tell that a child fully understands the content when they are able to do this.
   Mrs. Tassin's second grade Students Sharing Board Builders and Students Sharing Board Builders #2 demonstrates the students sharing the information that they found and created for their board. This gives the students an opportunity to teach their fellow students and even their teachers about the subject of their choice.

   iMovie and AVL and We All Become Learners taught me that their are many great technological tools that our elementary age students are using in today's world. These technological changes are causing students to not only practice more Project Based Learning but be teachers as well. The students are being the teachers which is causing the teachers to become the students. While watching all of these videos, I became to learner. I now completely understand how everyone becomes a learner and plan on taking this information with me when I graduate.