LLED 3530: Hannah

I found this study to be a very interesting read. The idea of experimenting with whether podcasts/ “authentic” materials (Enokida, Lauer, and Selwood, 2016) or textbooks help students more is an idea I feel is being experimented with all the time now. Good educators everywhere are always looking for ways to improve their classes and how to differentiate material so they can reach every student. This study is one of the ways educators are looking for ways to improve. The study showed that podcast prove to be just as effective as textbooks in the variables they were studying. And while their results may show this, I believe that using podcast should still be used in the classroom. They are a great way to differentiate the material for students. Students get bored learning new material the same way over and over again. I can wholeheartedly attest to this in my past learning experiences. By mixing things up, students tend to be more focused and attentive to the material, which in...

The way I could incorporate a work of art in my science class room is by having kids discuss the painting or even have them draw their own work. I really liked Maratha Odum and her paintings. I loved how she captured such a beautiful scenery of nature and how peaceful her paintings were. While admiring them, I thought of a great idea of how to incorporate many of her paintings in my classroom. I thought that I could have the students do a "gallery walk" with several of her paintings (ones I have posted below) and then students could describe the different ecosystems that are in each of the paintings and some characteristics of each one. I would then have student create their own paintings/drawings of one of the ecosystems that are represented in the paintings. I think this would be a great activity because it allows kids to look at another example of ecosystems other than just in a textbook. This also allows students the chance to see another way of how science plays such a ...

“Kids Learning Ville” is a great website for every student in math and science content. I mean every student. Not only does it have all sorts of math and science worksheets, videos and online games for students to use (for free may I add), but it has a variety of levels for students to select from, so students can work at their own learning pace. But that is not even the best part. The website even has a section for ESL/EFL students to help work on their English. They have worksheets, videos and online games for them with all different types of vocabulary topics for them to choose from. This website would be great for us to use in our classrooms because it allows us to cater to our students’ learning needs in a particular area. It allows them to work at their own pace, and plus what student doesn’t want to play online games. This makes learning fun again for students and allows them to work at a pace and level they understand and then can proceed on to a harder level once the...

I really enjoyed this video. I thought it was a great way to see the different levels that students are at within one classroom. One thing that I really took away from this video was the way to word and  phrase questions, not only when asking them out loud, but also when students are working on activities. When Mrs. Maronpot was creating the puzzle activity for her students, she said that the method she used when creating the questions was starting at the “second level” type questions (comprehension questions) because that is where she felt the majority of her students were at and she then created questions that were below and above that level (knowledge, application and analysis type questions). I also liked how she assigned questions to students based on their level, but she had each student read out their question to their group so in the end every student plays a part in answering all levels of questions. I think this would be a great activity to implement in a classroom bec...