LLED 3530: Hannah

     Ponder is a great resource for any content area teacher because it allows students to learn while using their favorite thing, technology. Teachers can upload a document for students to read and then students can go and make comments on the text, which everyone can later go back and look at. This is a great way for teachers to evaluate if their students are fully understanding the concept from the text all in one place instead of having to go through each one of their student’s papers. The video on the website explains more in detail just how this website works.   Resource:  https://www.ponder.co/welcome/ Word count: 101

     The beginning of this passage really hit home for me. I am guilty of choosing television over reading a book as my choice of pleasure at the end of a long day. I’m not like some of my friends who can sit and just read books on books on books. I have great respect for them and wish I could do that, but at the end of most days I just want to turn off my brain and mindlessly watch whatever is on the screen in front of me instead of picking up a book. I know I am not the only one who does this either. In fact I feel a majority of people do this, especially students.      After eight periods of just sitting and doing nothing but reading almost all day, the last thing students want to do at home is pick up another book. This is why it is critical for us, future teachers to take advantage of this “two-fer” (Daniels & Zemelman, 2014, Pg. 42)  the passage mentions (or what I like to call “killing two birds with one stone”). This way we...