EME2040 Blog

  I will use data collection (survey) tools as a teacher I believe with parents. I intend to work with younger children in Kindergarten so it would be difficult for them to take surveys. However, as a teacher I will want to make the at-home process with homework and school in general run as smoothly as possible with parents. I believe surveys will be an easy way to get responses and opinions from parents on certain topics.  Topics I found most interesting from reviewing my classmates’ blogs were specifically in blog #8 when each of my classmates spoke about what they found most interesting during this semester. I found it interesting to see how everyone has different interests when it comes to technology. I also loved reading how many of us had used a lot of this technology or skills in the past but this class has allowed them to realize a new way of using a certain platform. I enjoyed using many different platforms that I had used in the past but learning a whole new way of using them

 

  I did experience distance learning throughout my sophomore and junior year of high school. I did not enjoy distance learning and found it to be completely useless. Teachers are unable to make sure you are on task and many students just end up cheating because they can, which results in not learning anything. It is also very hard to stay engaged when you are online as looking at a computer screen all day can get extremely tiring. As a teacher I would make sure that the lessons I teach are extremely engaging in order to keep my students alert and engaged.  Open educational resources (OER) are resources that anyone has access to. They do not have copyright or anything like that, which means you can use these resources in your classroom with no problem. There are 5 rights associated with these resources and they are Retain, Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2019.00152/full This article focused on the expenses that come with being