Internet Safety Blog

Throughout these activities I learned many different ways the internet is used and misused. Safety on the internet needs to be a topic that is explained in great detail to all students before, during, and after use. But I believe it is and always will be a great tool for all to learn from and on if used wisely.

Reflection for EDSC 3250

Google Sites Reflection

Post a reflection on your blog answering these questions:

1. What do you see as the potential benefits of Google Sites and/or other website development systems for you as a teacher?
A. Some benefits that I believe a Google site would me is, it will help me stay better organized with my students and their work. Example, keeping track of papers, assignments, tests scores. It will also be a great organizer for both me and my students as far as due dates. It should help all of us stay prepared for upcoming events. It is just another way that I can get my lessons across to the students, which will make me a better educator.

2. What do you see as the potential drawbacks of Google Sites and/or other website development systems for you as a teacher?
A. If I were to depend on them like I have seen some of my professors due this last semester, it can affect students when the system isn't working. If it crashes I crash. I'm not very good at it right now, but it will change after this class. I'm hoping to be very competent with this whole topic by the end of this semester so things like this wont affect my teachings in a negative way.

3. Do you plan to have a class website? Why or why not? If so, what would you include on that website? Why?
A. I will have one after having the Edpsych class. It will keep me more organized, and the students will have no excuse for ever missing assignments because they will always be posted. The site will include the dates of both assigned and due dates for all classwork and tests. This will help my students manage their time and schedules knowing these dates. More so it keeps me on track with the lessons and what I need them to receive.

Answer each question in a separate paragraph. Your responses should demonstrate critical thinking.

Course Contract Review

Complete the following assignment on your blog AFTER completing each exam.

Review your course contract from the beginning of the semester. Answer the following questions:

1. What are you doing well? changed my study habits, to achieve better grades. As my final showed. Stress has gone down.
   
2. What are you not doing well? still the time thing I haven't been able to set a good structured time frame for life and studies.
   
3. Are you making sufficient progress on your goals? For the most part yes, I need to try to figure the whole time thing out ASAP, or life will suck when student teaching starts.
   
4. List specific things you need to change in order to meet your goals. The main thing I think will help me is getting and using a calender planner, in hopes it will structure my time more efficiently.
   
5. How is your motivation? Are you focusing on mastery or performance goals? Does anything need to change? I am very excited now after seeing a good response to the way that I studied, and for how hard I worked in this class it paid off. That is the biggest thing that could have helped my in the way I change things and how I set my goals. getting a good response to my goals was a great motivator.
   

Test #3 Revisions

19.

Which one of the following statements is most likely to promote higher moral reasoning in a student in the law and order stage?
Student Response Value Correct Answer A. “Your behavior is not allowed in this classroom. As a consequence, you’ll have to stay after school today.” 0% B. “You mustn’t take Ruthie’s paper, or I won’t like you any more.” C. “If you don’t help with clean-up, you won’t get to go to the assembly.” D. “You destroyed Martha’s paper, and now she has to stay late to finish rewriting it.”
	Score 0/3 1. Reasoning for missing the question. I thought the law and order stage had to do with breaking the rules therefor having a punishment for that. Hence there is laws=rules, order=punishment for breaking the rules. I don't understand why we destroyed Martha's paper, what did she do to deserve that punishment. At least answer A. had a reason for the punishment. So I don't understand why it is D.

13. Which one of the following strategies is most likely to encourage students to correct their existing misconceptions?
Student Response Value Correct Answer A. Give students as much information about a topic as possible. 0% B. Show examples of a concept that contradict what students presently believe. C. Point out that “smart” students don’t misunderstand classroom topics. D. Encourage students to take extensive notes on their reading assignments.
Score:	0/3
1. Reason for missing question. I believe my answer is also correct. Because if you give as much information as there possibly is it would be hard to have any misconceptions if all knowledge is presented. Also I can now see why the correct answer is B if you also show examples of items that are directly different or the opposite it would also help the students understand and eliminate the misconceptions and strengthen the correct concept.

	4.
	Todd is trying to remember the names of the bones of the hand, but is confused and can only remember the bones of the feet, which he studied earlier this week. Which explanation of forgetting best describes Todd’s problem? Student Response Value Correct Answer A. decay B. reconstruction error C. lack of retrieval cues 0% D. interference Score: 0/3

1. Reason for missing question.
I also believe my answer is correct on for this question. Todd is having a hard time retrieving the memories of the bones in the hand, something isn't being cued for this response, there isn't a good connection in my opinion. Retrieval is pulling from long term memory to working memory. and that is what I believe he is having a problem with is pulling it out .

Interference is the correct answer, but it is almost the exact same thing. Failure to retrieve information, so I believe they both are correct but I understand why interference is correct in this case. He is failing to retrieve information.

2.Patterns for missing?
The only pattern I can see is that there in these cases two answers that were very similar to one an other and I should have taken the time to break them down even more in my mind with other example or comparisons before answering. There wasn't really a trend to missing them other than they were all missed.

3.Content that I struggle with?
Honestly I am struggling with all of it, my brain just doesn't retain all of this like it used to. But if I had to choose something specific it would be the models, I kinda understand the stuff in this section ok.

4.How will I review and retain?
I will need to use the items that I an not understanding as well as I should in ways that can relate to my life right now. If I can figure that out for the final it will help me retrieve the information easier and more quickly. Just need to figure how to relate it first. I need to have or make more examples in my mind on each topic.

The Teen Brain: Primed to Learn, Primed to Take Risks

Extra Credit

What? This article discusses how the brain functions, at what levels, and at what speed. It discusses a lot on adolescent people and the levels of their brain functions, then towards the end it goes through the process of how it changes to teen levels and even through late maturation. This shows the connection of the brain and the process it goes through. It shows how the brain is perfect and that it is the reason why we can live in just about any environment because the brain can make us adapt to where ever we are over time.

So What? I totally agree with this concept. Look over time how the world has changed and we are still here. I also agree with the speed of the brain, that it works and fires so fast when we are young and then as we get older things slow down. But as we grow their are many new connections made which stimulates more in our brain. So I believe more is learned at younger ages verses at the older ages.

Now What? Being a secondary education teacher I need to hope others have done their job with my students before they get to me. But knowing that the brain is still working semi quickly I would want to present as much as I can in as many ways as possible. If I can establish this into my lessons my students will have more opportunity for the items to stick in their brains for long term. I need to give them as much opportunity to learn because after high school the brain isn't learning or firing as fast and it only gets slower.

Study: Students more stressed now than during Depression?
Extra Credit.

What? This article discusses a study taken by Jean Twenge, a San Diego State University psychology professor and the study's lead author. The study was on depression and how the number are increasing dramatically in our children. I also talks about some potentials why they are increasing, but there still needs to be more data taken for more concrete results.

So What? I believe that these numbers are increasing, because I would bet that more than 50% of the people I know are on some type of medicine for a type of depression. There are just so many more thing to stress or worry people now than what they worried about in the 30's. So I can see exactly why they are doing this research, people are getting crazy.

Now What? This will help me in my teaching and in life. I will need to try to understand my students better, for example where they come from, their social economic status, just important thing in life in general. This will help me have better student teacher relations, and should help me on my preparing of lesson plans. This will also help my with the ways I communicate with people in general.

Emerging Theory

Final Learning Log

Write a blog about your personal learning theory. To do this:
- Review the study guides and text chapters for each of the following theories:

Identify points from each theory/topic that you like and dislike.

L = Like D = Dislikes

• Piaget's Cognitive Development: L: how people learn at different levels. D: the ages he has set they should be a little larger.
  
• Vygotsky's Cognitive Development: L: how it relates to social learning throughout life. D= To me it makes people do only what they see, they don't think for themselves they do what is taught. Robots.
  
• Erikson's Psychosocial Development: L: I really like his way of thinking throughout his stages, and how he compares they to the real life expectancies. D: I really don't dislike any of it I agree with his model.
  
• Kohlberg's Moral Development: L: because he tries to bring learning in to play through morality. D: because in these days morals are different for everyone. Some people believe killing is good and moral, so it would be hard for me to justify his model in my life.
  
• Goleman's Emotional Intelligence: It is hard to react to either side, even as the book states it is not clear if emotional learning is a distinct type of intelligence or just general. So with this it is confusing to choose likes or dislikes.
  
• Information Processing: L: agree with the process on how we think and store memories in our BRAIN. D: it would be hard for me to dislike this concept because I have no facts that it doesn't follow this process. Not enough info to shut this process down in my mind.
  
• Knowledge Construction and Higher-order thinking:L: that there are levels that one can reach and that not everyone is on the same one, and they all can be obtain if wanting to go there. D: really not everyone can achieve the many levels because not everyone was taught or explained how to obtain the highest order of thinking.
  
• Behaviorism:L: that thing are learned through experiences. D: way to keep behaviors the way we want them usually have to do with bribery.
  
• Social Cognitivism:L: how it is self driven, you can learn on your own, what you want at your pace. It can be done individually or you can learn from others. to me this is more well rounded learning.D: I don't dislike this at all I agree with it because it reaches many types of learners in many way of learning.
  
• Group and Individual Differences: L: everyone does learn different in different way. D: there just isn't enough diversity in our teachings to reach all levels or individual needs.
  
• Motivation:L people do learn by motivation for the most part. D: people also learn because of necessity, and bribery which is not the right reason but sometimes is a necessity to get them to learn.
  

What? The result of the quiz was B. 40, C. 40, H. 41. They were all just about equal , which fit my opinion on how people learn. I believe that people learn through a combination of constructivism ( comparing thing to experiences or with environment) but also through behaviorism ( feelings through experiences which have conditioned their brains). I don't know what you are referring the H to unless it just has to do with the human brain and how it works. I wish the test would have just told us what the three types were, so I could have explained myself better for the H because I don't know if it fits into my person strategy.

So What? I totally believe that people learn through active learning, and from experiences in their lives that they can relate thing to. What I mean is through active learning people learn from others in many different point of views that they my not have thought of and they also have the opportunity to teach or explain their points also. So in this way its more hands on and has a better opportunity to remember feelings of memory. Experiences will help people learn through comparison what they remember how the topics can relate to one an other.

Now What? This is the simple answer. In all the lesson plans that I have written so far their are many activities in many diverse ways of translation so each student can try to relate to a old memory or create new memories for remembering or recalling information. Even when I use power points or overheads I want the students to stay active and create a fun atmosphere of learning because that is memorable.

I would like to learn more about the process that the brain goes through to store information, and what is easier to remember and recall so I can tweek my lessons to fit better to those ares. Also I would like to go into more depth on the higher order of thinking and why it is so important to take my student through so many different types of levels. I believe that if I can better understand these few items I can make my person teaching method stronger and more fulfilling for my students.