Blog # 8

21st century learning and communicating tools

There are a lot of different communicating and learning tools these days. There is YouTube, Facebook, Skype and there are even ways to communicate by mobile for IPhone owners there is even face-timing other IPhone owners.I think that technology has taken over students education and especially if everywhere kids go and there is nothing but technology around them everyone is on there cellphone (mostly Iphones) looking on Facebook or checking email. That's all the kids in the 21st century know of technology no pen, pencil or paper just technology. As for learning tools I would recommend Discovery Education, It has activities and Programs for all subjects (Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and also World Languages).

I would teach 4th grade students how to use skype skype because I think that at that age they are the ones that will make use of it the most with their friends. Here is a website with written instructions on how to use skype I reviewed how to use skype and skype is basically a visual chat room that you can talk to people all over the world through video. The cool thing I really like about skype is you can video chat more than one person at a time. Skype is also a good way to communicate with other classmates while being in a different place your house for example. I would use skype so that during the day for a few hours the students could skype me with questions that they had. When I become a teacher I really would like to use the "flipping a classroom" method. The main reason is the students can work at their own pace and as well as not fall behind on their classwork. Out of the video's that were on the blog instructions this video was my favorite one. It was the most descriptive of what "flipping a classroom" is and how it helps the students learn and understand better. I learned in this video that 90% of the kids in Katie's class were spending time delivering the message rather than learning in class. 10% of the kids in the class spent on the application which depends on the students application outside of class as well. So the big thing about a normal class is kids didn't have enough time to do there work.