Reflection

By Kellert

What is course has helped me with is to understand and become familiar with 21st century technology. I have lots of different accesses to technology through my school tech teacher as well as thorough my school website. Before I started this class I didn’t really know how to use any of the technology available to me. Now I have an understanding of how to use blogs, wikis, and podcasts. All of these tools are useful as teachers to teach our students and also to use these in the real world. Student have taking big leaps to be exciting and get involved with technology. I am now in the process of creating some really fun lessons that the students will be able to use the 21st technologies that we have learned.

I now have a better arsenal for teaching these lessons. I can create wikis for class by uploading different assignments and chats. I can add my different podcasts to my website that will explain different assignments if students miss class and need to further explanation. As I stated above I have a better variety of things I can teach. Even though I am a PE and Health teacher I can still teach students about technology and how it is use. They are learning great content that will help them enhance their lifelong skills.

During this course I have modified from teacher-centered to learner-centered, because the students are changing to a more involved learning style. Or maybe they have been this learner-centered way the entire time and we as teachers are finally learning how to approach the students to utilize our time. I do feel that I have a little upper hand because I am a young teacher and I don’t necessarily have to change too much. I find it easy to vary my lessons and change my routine, maybe compared to a teacher that is more or less stuck in their ways.
In order for me to be a successful teacher I will have to keep looking for new ways to help further my teaching strategies as well as to learn new content. This will help me to have a better arsenal of weapons to use. I believe that everyone is a “Lifelong Leaner” and will need to continue their education. After I complete my masters program I will still be looking for new ways to further my education. Other areas that I will look forward to learning about are traits of reading and writing.

One of the long term goals that I have created is that I want to use technology within the classroom a few days of week. There are so many cool things you can do with technology and I am going to definitely explore those different routes. Another long term goal that I have is to further my website and post lots of podcasts and wikis that help student understand assignments and what I expect from them in class. Also with the wikis I can post lost of valuable resources for them to use.