One of the technology standards is LAFS.K.W.2.6. This basically states that you must be able to use online or digital resources to create and/or publish works. I feel like an example of this would be creating a newsletter or blog to reach the parents of your students. Currently, I do feel capable of achieving this standard thanks to the few assignments we have done in this class. I have used digital design tools and word to create a newsletter. I also am able to use Twitter and a blog to publish things to whoever needs to see them.
I found a resource for Kindergarten classrooms in the CPALMS Educator Toolkit. This resource is a video teaching students to wash their hands and count to twenty. It first reviews counting with examples and a picture of students on a bus. I think this would be very useful in a classroom especially after what we’ve experienced with this pandemic. I would like to be able to use this resource to help my students wash their hands effectively while also practicing counting. Hopefully by using this resource or something similar, I will be able to prevent the spread of germs and sickness in my classroom. It is especially important for children to learn how to stop the spread at a young age so that it becomes a habit they perform daily.
As a student, Internet searching has become more and more important to succeed in classes. I have learned to find a useful article in a small amount of time just from doing research papers. I believe that as a teacher, I will have to know how to Internet search in order to learn the best ways to teach certain topics in my classroom. Having the Internet as a resource will make my planning easier as a teacher as I will be able to view the many different methods for teaching each subject. I believe using a reverse image search can become a very useful tool in certain classroom scenarios. I think during a science class, reverse image search can be used to find the species of different animals easier than typing the physical characteristics. I think another important skill to use when Internet searching is learning to search exact phrases and exclude certain results. This is something I do often because I’m looking for a very specific answer. For example, I’m trying to search a specific dog, I don’t know what it is but I know it’s not a Dalmatian. I am able to use the internet to search for a dog with spots that is not a Dalmatian; this allows me to narrow my results and get closer to the correct answer.
