Issues and Trends

When being a students, it is always helpful to know different sources that you can help you learn inside the class when you are given assignments and homework to complete.

This is a social media tool kit. This tool kit allows one to keep a profile of presentations, activities, and much more. There are games and badges you can earn. You can personalize it as well as have participation from others while using it.

Its always important to stay up to date with 21st Century learning skills inside of the classroom. Keeping up to date will help keep the students up to date as well and more engaged in their learning.

I like that this had different resources within it and a guide for parents to understand 21st century learning.

This hashtag is used by educators to see what types of resources are being used in todays classrooms and how we can improve them!

Keystone was resource I have used alot in the past that students have free access to clipart, britanica, and a multitude of other online databases!

This website is what I strive to base my teaching off of in the future! It offers great tips on what a classroom should look like for teachers soon to be out in the field!

I like that this website broke it down in the the 4 essentials!

Another helpful site for soon to be educators, this website talks through struggles a teacher may have and how to overcome them through good practices.

Kahoot is a great way to get students to be interactive in the classroom while studying and gaining knowledge at the same time!

As a computer science major, this one struck deep to the core. Coding is one of the most essential languages to know in todays world and this article does a great job explaining it!

This article would be beneficial to share with teachers so that they know the benefits of teaching students to code. Coding in the classroom has long range benefits that could lead to students having many options in their future careers. Additionally sharing this article with students would show them that while coding is fun; they are also working on developing skills that can help them in the present and future.

I really like this resource. I will definitely be looking at this as I get ready to write my final paper. This is different from all of the other articles that I have seen because it is not directly related to coding with students. I could see how this could be beneficial for a young professionals group all the way up to a senior citizen center.

It's interesting how all of these things connect with coding. As a computer science major I can see how all of these can be impacted by coding, yet I never thought of them. After reading this article I definitely can look back and see this occurring through out the past two years!

This is a great article and after reading it, I realize even more why I need to teach digital citizenship lesson that include the use of social media to my students. There are some great ideas for using social media in the classroom that I want to try out. I want to try out having my students do a podcast at some point this year and I also want to have my students blog. I am going to share this with a colleague of mine that I know will love the information in this article and want to join me in bringing social media into our classrooms.

I really liked this website. It was actually one that I almost shared with this group because I liked it. I think it is important to know how to implement social media in the classroom because it is so prevalent in our society. I think this website will be used by teachers because they are the ones who will be deciding how they will bring social media in lessons. I have seen other websites that can help implement social media into the classroom. I have shared that website to this group.

This is a pretty great Edutopia article. I hope some of the information will help me when implementing social media in the classroom!

I couldn't NOT read this link :) As a former Spanish teacher I could definitely have used these in my classroom! I loved the idea of the Game: Grab My Finger. My students really struggled to actually LISTEN to each other to try to understand. I also loved the card game spoons to play with Spanish vocab. https://martinabex.com/2012/01/24/spoons-for-spanish/

Although, I do not teach Spanish there are some things that I could try in my own classroom if I adapt them to different content. :)

The visual at the beginning of this article is something I would use in my classroom. It is simple and easy to follow. I like things like that! I like that this article defines student-centered learning first and then give researched-based strategies. We are so research and data driven that I think it brings comfort to educators to see that these strategies have been tried, tested, and approved!

Unfortunately I would have to say I could not use this in my classroom. Unless my district changes their stance on student access to social media it would be extremely hard for me to do most of the things mentioned. This resource is for both teachers and students. I say this because it is giving options for things for teachers to use in their classroom, so this would also benefit students.

I have never heard of scoop.it before but it sounds like an interesting resource when talking about a specific topic with students. I always think the idea of using social media in the classroom is great, but with younger students I also am not sure how to manage the use of this social media to make sure the content students are sharing is positive for our classroom. I also think the Point and Shoot idea is interesting. To make this useful, however, I would have to figure out a way to screen the content that students are sharing.

Although this post relates directly on math, I think it hits on a larger need to make sure students understand what a question is asking them and really think about the purpose of the question.

In reading this post, I felt like I was teaching my 7th grade math students. I don't know how many times I try to restate a something to get them to UNDERSTAND the problem. I think many students just want the quick and simple... how do I solve it. To them, it doesn't matter what or why they are doing something.