week 4 reflection

week 4 reflection: since Lisa taught me how to us stick notes I have been keeping a log and will now start new for next week
4-1 (5 hours) reader review & Concordia tech update a,b,c thread 3
4-3 (6:15-7:15 AM) checking Concordia and blog site
4-3 (9:10 -2pm) working on tab 4 and new thread
4-5 (6:30-1:30) responded Patrick posted to my blog (tech replace teachers?) added
quote to my blog title added post to Paul's forum question added a forum question
added a blog on sharing and a shared post ( this was an overload session but I was on
a roll)
4-7 (3:30-5) worked on voice for computer Voki site reviewed clouding article
bookmarked GOOD but very long will post link
4-8 added Voki to blog site
4-8 (3:30-6:00) worked with Chad and Lisa helped set up blue tooth mouse to be a mock
smart board helped Chad add smart notebook onto his computer.
4-8 (9- playing with updates and posting to other blogs

Flygirl Has A Voice

Preview my shared link

I tried something different on my blog site called shared. It is on the left corner of this page. It was not an educational article but one I thought those of you with little children and buying highchairs might be interested in. Now that I understand what I can do with this section I will post interesting finds there and will know what they mean if I find them on other sites

technology replaces the teacher ( click here for link to article)

Read a very interesting article and post on Education Week; 14.4 million dollars spent on testing the effectiveness of reading and math software programs has found few significant learning differences between students who used the technology and those taught using other methods. Attached link to the article click on title of this blog but in summary key points I found of interest are:

• that is a lot of money to spend on research
  
• one blog attached reflects that who makes the programs may have a significant affect (educators or businesses)
• study results which were designed to be unbiased showed even software makers consider who is teaching as critical. “These studies are intended to wash out all the variation in school environments, teacher quality, resources­—all the things that we, in fact, know make a difference when it comes to student learning,” said Margaret A. Honey, a technology expert who is the president of the New York Hall of Science.
• Only critical readers and thinkers can use these computer based programs independently

Cathy this made me think of you with your adults who want a teacher not a computer to learn from. The computer is a tool and we as educators become so important monitoring it is used appropriately while supplying constant guidance and feedback.
This makes me think about cooperative learning groups and how they do not function if you give them little to no, direction, guidance, intervention or feedback.

In reference to my title, since the data reported there was no significant learning change,which implies it is not better, does that mean that it is as good. If that is true could we see very large computer based courses needing less teachers?

Journal update

finished thread 4 stand a and b will continue with stand c on Sunday. I am sure the site will be full of post at that time, I am going to go back and post to thread 3 strand d by replying to other posts instead of posting a new one, it seems a little to late too do that. If anyone has a good podcast site I am interested in trying a very basic podcast I have a mic and can make a recorder work but do not know exactly where to store it so it has a url so I can embed it as a link

Need to connect to Twitter on Sunday and see if I can follow colleagues

Start research on what to do for project Sunday