Week 11 Assignment 1

In the article, “Using Voicethread to Promote Learning Engagement and Success for All Students, the authors talk about how using voicethread with students in a variety of different ways and over various different subjects. They talk about how to use voicethread for language arts by using it as a prewriting exercise The teacher can use voicethread to create a start to a writing topic. Voicethread could also help with science by adding a visual to different activities. Students can also create voice threads of their own to create something creative.

Week 10 Assignment 1

https://screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cqXDbHU3fX

Who is Mercer Mayer?

https://voicethread.com/share/13259725/

Week 6 Assignment 2.1

 In the article, Middle School Science Teachers’ Confidence and Pedagogical Practice of New Literacies, the authors discuss that in this current time in order for students to be fully literate they must become proficient in the literacies of  twenty first century technologies. The article also talks about the importance of allowing students and teachers to have access to these new literacies so that they can further drive science instruction using technology. 




The article, Using Social Networking Sites to Facilitate Teaching and Learning in the Science Classroom discusses using social networking tools to enhance the learning in a science classroom. The article talks about the class using programs like Edmodo and other platforms in order to create a virtual classroom that contains all the resources they may need.

Week 9 Assignment 1

The Impact of Using Blogs on College Students' Reading Comprehension and Learning Motivation discusses how technology has a large impact on keeping students interested and wanting to take part in the lessons but the teachers are struggling to utilize the technology in the best way. Teachers need more professional development and constant education when it comes to the changes in technology. 

Teachers have been using blogging as a way to showcase student work and to preserve teaching material but they have found that blogging it's self does not increase student score. However student are more engaged in the work when blogging is involved.