This week we were asked to post our Top 5 sites from a selected few. After looking through the list I recognized many but not all. It is for this reason that I love assignments like that. We were given a list of pre-vetted sites from our professor that we can trust to be useful to some capacity. I often find myself doing searches for certain sites or apps and it becomes overwhelming since there are so many. I loved the list and have downloaded it for further study once I have time to breath again.
The following site contains apps and websites and how they apply to Bloom's Taxonomy. It was shown to me by the awesome Naomi Perl - Bloom's Taxonomy Sites
We also had to respond to our classmates Group 1 post. I found their questions and articles very interesting. I often wonder why some teachers are so reluctant to use video games in the classroom. I understand that it is hard to assess using video games since many times they are not practicing one specific skill but hooking students into our teaching can be crucial. I many not use it as a sole activity to teach a concept but might present it to the students as a down-time activity or a part of a center rotation. The students at my school are Minecraft fanatics and hearing them during morning meeting leaves be astonished at the amount of knowledge they posses. They go out of their way to read wikis and watch screen-casts of people teaching them (though they usually contain inappropriate words). What are your thoughts about video games in the classroom (and I am not referring to Call of Duty, Assassins Creed or the like)?
Also, students are gone, finished cleaning my classroom and ONE WEEK LEFT BEFORE SUMMER!!!
I thought you were already out for summer! Do you just have a few more days without students? I too enjoyed the list of web tools and plan to use it in the future. I feel that it gave me a lot of new ideas on technology that I can use with my students that I actually have access to. I agree that educational games are good for students. I try most of the time to use them to reinforce skills that we have been learning, however I also find that using educational games also allows my kindergarteners to practice their skills on the computer (using the keyboard and mouse) which is also important. So to me the use of games is a win-win! Some of my favorite sites are www.pbskids.org and www.abcya.com.
ReplyDeleteI am done with students. I was hired an extra week by the school to do placement and scope and sequence for our curriculum. You have a good point that teaching them about keyboards and mouse to Kindergarten students.
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ReplyDeleteGood point about the gaming. This year, we started doing EverFi financial literacy modules in Intro to Business. It has been a great tool that I use at the end of a chapter to "put it all together" before a test. I would never just assign it as the one tool for a topic, but it is a great supplemental activity that gets them working with concepts and reports grades back to me, which is great!
~Kaelyn
That sounds like a wonderful application of games. What a great to review!
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