Thomas Bardroff

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One topic in chapter 7 I read about that piqued my interested was flipped classrooms. While this is a fairly new method flipped classrooms have many pros when it comes to educating students.

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However, a con that the article lists is that assumedly a student will have viewed the pre class learning assignment. I believe this method of teaching also requires a highly attentive teacher. Students who have a traditional classroom may not be used to this style of teaching.

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I also believe that learning styles can also help develop a teachers fundamental understanding of how to educate an individual student who may be struggling to grasp a concept. While teaching styles may be scientifically disproven I still believe there's validity to their idea.

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Where as a computer science teacher may have a completely different method of facilitating education in the classroom. If nothing else I believe that learning styles can help shape our foundation of how an individual intakes information.

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I believe that students and teachers hold on to the concept of learning styles, despite evidence of their ineffective nature, due to everyone wanting to have control of their own independence in education and how they learn.

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In the same way that students learn in certain ways I believe that educators teach in certain ways. For example an agricultural teacher may spend time teaching concepts in the classroom but I believe that agricultural work can be a deeply hands on experience.

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@DanielaSturgill I completely agree that Khan Academy is a perfect tool to use for students as instructional software.

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One piece of instructional technology that I've used in school is Duolingo. Duolingo involves students by having them consistently practicing sentence structure, word, and grammar knowledge through drills that are gamified to be more engaging.

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Overall, Duolingo, tied with in class lessons can help students better understand and learn a language and it's grammar. Through the use of drills and practice to build foundational understanding of a language I think Duolingo is a perfect example of instructional technology.

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@AggieLaura90 Great analysis. I think we both hit separate points on how they exhibited creativity, agency, and community. Bu I think you were able to see how hey exhibited different aspects of the same concepts!

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Lastly they showed community by attending a conference where they had access to other teacher's ideas. Such as using Jenga poetry blocks, digital bookmaking, and using physical layouts to represent stories they read in class. #302f23

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8th Edition
Ms. Alkhouri and Ms. Read showed creativity by wanting to create mobile carts that could be taken to schools that didn't have the same access to technology that more affluent schools did.

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They showed agency by recognizing that their respective classes were below the digital literacy bar due to their limited access to technology in an advancing technology society. Ms. Alkhouri felt responsible for making sure her students had access to technology.

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I believe that objective strategies have a more rigid outline that can help a student develop a base line understanding of material which is very important to building skills and confidence. Either method appears to have benefits for students. (3/3) #302f23

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When it comes to technology integration strategies, I feel I most resonate with the constructivist strategies. I feel it's important to be able to put a students own perspective and experiences on a problem and using relevant problem solving skills to develop a solution. (1/3)

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However, I also believe that everyone learns differently and that a combined strategy in use can help a student learn just as well. Both can offer motivation to learn as well as helping remove hurdles to learning as a whole. (2/3)