Week 5

This week I was doing some research on what grade I would like to teach, and as much as I would love to teach elementary I realized that I can actually teach high school directly after my 4 year degree. I am a political science major and I hadn't realized I could teach with that degree directly after I graduate. I thought I had to have more schooling on top of it. So now I am intrigued to see what high school/middle school teaching would look like.

With this I decided to look at grades 11-12 because that would be the grade levels of teaching high school government! The ELA technology standard I chose to discuss is the standard to integrate multiple sources of information in diverse formats and media, such as: online chart creators such as Create A Graph, reference websites such as Ask A Librarian, and graphics software such as pixlr, to make informed decisions. I honestly don't think my current skill set would allow me to meet this standard. I think I still have a lot to learn about technology and resources before I would have the skillset to implement this standard.

On the CPALMS site, the tool I would use would be the teacher's lesson ideas. I read through a bunch of them on there and they're great. They are all so creative, and I think it would be really fun to build off of the ideas and lessons they have created and make them my own and implement them in my classroom. I really appreciate that these lessons even tell you how many standards they cover. I never knew a site like this existed!

The web 2.0 tool that I could use in my classroom that I first thought of is Tik Tok. It is an app that can allow students to become very creative and create a minute long video over what we are discussing in class. I think students could have a lot of fun with this and follow each other and interact! This would be similar to twitter and the blogs but have a slight twist in being videos and very creative. They would also be very simple so that they could stay enjoyable to the students.
https://www.tiktok.com/en/

I commented on Jacob and Mallory's posts!