January 20th-23rd, 2015

Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
Today, we discussed our plans for the upcoming weeks, and talked about how amazing the conference was on Friday! Hannah Trammell presented her blog, as well as her midterm project, sharing about ADD and ADHD. She told us of her personal experience with it, and shared statistics & other information on the topic. Then, we learned a little about ActivExpression technology, and used them to answer yes/no questions about debatable issues in education (giving birth control at school, sex education required from elementary to high school, grouping of classes according to academic abilities). We had a good time sharing our opinions on these topics!

Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
Today, we presented our timelines about social, technological, and education changes from the 1960s to now. The timelines had many unique backgrounds, such as lunch containers, televisions, and devices used to play music. The projects were used to sum up the infromation we collected in our interviews over Christmas break. Then, Mrs. Turner introduced the peer lesson project, and explained a little about what that would entail.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
Today, we discussed our peer lesson assignments, and clarified some important points on those. Then we talked through our homework from the night before. We shared our learning style results and discussed how to cater to those needs. On the multiple intelligences test, we shared  what surprised us about our results. We also discussed Bloom's Taxonomy (remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, create) and its use in class! Mrs Turner read "The Dot" to us, and we used the story for example questions and tasks as we went through our Bloom's Taxonomy handouts! We were then told to come up with a question from each level of Bloom's Taxonomy for a book we read as our homework.

Friday, January 23rd, 2015
Today, we recognized our Teaching Fellows finalists (who are AMAZING). Then, we all chose a book to read and took the test that another student created for it, using Bloom's Taxonomy! We returned the test to the creator, and they graded it. After we had finished, Mrs Turner told us about different lesson plans for our field experience. We also signed up for our peer lesson dates.

Amber, Abby, Hannah, Tamara, Hannah, Ashlyn

"The giving of love is an education in itself." -Eleanor Roosevelt

Looking back into the past in education December 5-9

Monday January 5,2015
Today we talked about the calender for the month, we went over the project and all the things that is due over the next couple of months. It was our first day back and we had a lot to cover, we got to choose our topic for the midterm project.

Tuesday January 6,2015
We discussed the changes in education over the past century with technology, music, and entertainment and how it has changed drastically. We had a chart to fill out over the Christmas holiday, from the 1930-50's to the 2000's. It was very interesting to talk to my grandparents about their childhood in school and how different things used to be. My mother and father is even leaps and bonds different then the way i have experienced school. We got into groups and discussed what we thought was the most interesting thing we learned from our interviews. I loved how many things have changed, my grandmothers entertainment was listening to the radio and my mothers was to go to a drive in or go to a concert. everyone had different stories and it was fun to hear the other stories from people who lived on farms, or the city and how school and growing up was different.

Wednesday January 7,2015
We had a class discussion about the day before when we were in our groups and how times have changed. Mrs. Turner showed us the rules of teachers in the 1930's and how a teacher could get fired by the simplest things but that's how things were back then. They could get fired because of the length of her dress or being seen in town by herself at a certain time at night. We learned the old rules and the new rules of teaching and how someone can get fired. We also learned the differences in technology and how my grandmothers generation had chalkboards, then my mom had chalk boards and then didn't get a computer till she was in medical school. Now we as students have our on hand held iphones (mini computers) that we can use in school. Most schools are even giving kids their own laptops to use for school purposes. Technology has changed the most in education and is going to continue to change and we have to know how to keep up with it in the future as teachers.

Thursday January 8,2015
SNOW DAY

Friday January 9,2015
We started working on our project and reviewed over what we learned from the week going back in the future of how things have changed in education. One day we will be teachers and to know how things will change is very interesting and I cant wait to keep up with technology and be able to look back to how i have been raised and to see how things change.