Chapter 6 Prompt: Gifted students have special needs just as other students with unique needs. Imagine yourself the teacher of a gifted class. Select a lesson you are familiar with teaching and reflect on how it would need to be changed to address the needs of gifted students. What technologies would you employ to support this change? Gifted students pose their own unique challenges for teachers, especially general education students who must remember that each student is individually gifted. It doesn’t mean that teachers should speed up their instruction for these students or skip over material thinking they’ll pick it up on their own; it means that teachers should engage their gifted students. Both my brother and I were in the gifted program in elementary and middle school; however, we are gifted in different ways. My brother is incredibly smart. I’ll never forget how my brother got in trouble for reading during class because the teacher mistook this as he wasn’t paying attention while he really was bored. He does well on standardized tests and multiple-choice tests whereas I excel at essay-type assessments and do dreadfully on standardized and multiple-choice tests. He is very musically inclined, and I am artistically inclined. In my Zoology class, I teach a unit on the phylum porifera and cnidaria (sea sponges, jellyfish, anemones, etc.). One activity that I had the class do was to create a poridarian, a new creature that fits both phyla. For gifted students, I would have them not just choose the characteristics that match both phyla but rationalize why those characteristics fit into their make-believe environment. Additionally, I would have them present their new creature as a new scientific finding as seen at a scientific conference, which would involve a presentation using Google slides, PowerPoint, or Prezi.
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Chapter 4 Prompt: How many of the digital technologies discussed in this chapter have you used? Have you used them in an educational setting or elsewhere? For what purposes did you use them? Did they facilitate the purposes? Chapter 4 in our textbook discussed different technologies along with the challenges/opportunities for educators to integrate them into the classroom. This is the sixth edition of the textbook “Teaching and Learning with Technology” and as such, is relatively up-to-date with the various types of technology available to educators today. The chapter divides technology into computers and peripheral technology. Computer Technology
Except for electronic whiteboards and graphic tablets, I personally have used basically all these different types of technologies. Without aging myself too much, I was probably in 4th or 5th grade when my parents first got a desktop computer, and I was a junior in high school when I first got a digital camera (2mp was a huge deal at the time). Since then, technology has EXPLODED, but I feel that I have done a good job keeping up. Besides the technologies listed above, I have also used digital cartographic instruments/software and ground penetrating radar for archaeology. In medical school, we used clickers to answer questions in class. Otherwise, I have used the other types of technology in my personal and vast academic endeavors. As an educator, I use technology all the time. From displaying presentations with my Apple TV to utilizing my school google drive for cloud storage to attempting to video conference during the COVID-19 pandemic remote learning that happened in the spring. I am hoping to actually get a graphic tablet to use in my classroom next year. I feels that it would enhance my lectures if I could annotate the presentations while presenting (highlighting key ideas) and to get the students to annotate or identify material while I’m lecturing to increase student engagement. So, wish me luck! |
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