Lindsey Farmer Future Teacher
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August 21, 2013 at 9:04am
*What is your opinion of the use of cell phones in the classroom?
*What are the parameters that should be set when students use cell phones?
*What are some topics of ethics that surface when discussing the use of cell phones in the classroom?
Student Ethics play the largest roll in a student’s likeliness to cheat. The only time a student would feel compelled to cheat is if they are not fully prepared for the test. Students and teenagers against popular belief are not prewired to cheat. We cheat when we are scared. For some students a cell phone might be a tool for cheating but that cell phone only becomes a tool when the student or teacher has not done their job. The best way to get students not to cheat is to show them without cheating they can succeed. Teachers need to install confidence in students and develop a strategy to help those students that truly struggle. Respect is an important part of the teacher student relationship, let those students know that you truly feel disrespected when they are sitting on their cell phone when you are talking. Propose the question “How would you feel if during your presentation I sat on my phone and when you finished, and look at me for my approval, I look at you with a bored expression”. Let students know you trust them and teach them the self-discipline of being able to have their cell phone out and not use it. Kids like to act like adults, give them the freedom to and cell phones are not the end all, be all of cheating, fear is.
August 23, 2013 at 11:51pm
In the article Implementing Safeguards Against Cyberbullying by Claudio Cerullo it gives you ways to help stop cyber bullying in your own home. Reading this article on August 23, 2013 it gives me a sense of privacy invasion.
In the articles it gives you five ways to prevent cyberbulling in your child's life. It outlines them by number.
To me the biggest thing that stood out was the invasion of privacy. While it is important to keep a monitor on your child's activities I think you should also give them the trust they deserve until they prove you otherwise. Spying on them through your account or checking the history is a little far especially considering most kids use their phones or ipods know to keep them plugged in.
The effect on teaching this article poses is how to educate students on how to stop cyberbullying and keep their parents from invading their privacy. ALL kids should learn and bullying and how they can safely report it. All kids can learn and grow in a strong trustworthy, safe, and respectful environment.
August 30, 2013 at 11:25am
In the article In Hong Kong, the Tutor as Celebrity by Grace Tsol read on 8/30/2013 it poses a very interesting idea for teaching. I find this article striking because it's a new direction that schooling might take, unfortunately.
In this article it talks about the business model, motivation, benefit, and propaganda of having "celebrities" teach different courses to help students pass an exam. These "celebrities" are teachers who market themselves as if they were famous. Making blogs, doing photo-shoots, and being glamorous to get students to hire them for learning. These Celebrities are said to be a scam as stated in the quote by Woo Ching-tung, 17, “The tips the tutors gave were very vague,” she said. “They would name a dozen things that might appear in the exam paper and claim that they predicted the exam questions.” (In Hong Kong, the Tutor as Celebrity). It goes on to talk "cram schools" another type of scam schooling for students.
Before reading this article I was excited I thought it was going to be about celebrities teaching small lessoning that could be played over video in the classroom. After getting into to the article my mind changed drastically these schools and tutors, as stated in the article, are “a business principle.” (In Hong Kong, the Tutor as Celebrity). They are not created to help students but rather to make money. They teach students bad habits and give them a free loading state of mind that they can somehow shimmy their way through school. I believe that this schooling model should not be used at all anywhere.
I think that using celebrity videos for small student lesson could be an exciting new way to learn, but trying to cheat this system and profit off of student learning is morally wrong. Teaching should be about ethics and morals not about the easy way out.
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September 10, 2013 at 12:29am
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/08/30/black-i...
I watched the report called "Do Black Students Do Worse on Tests" by Soledad O'Brien posted on August 30, 2013. I chose this video because I believe all students should have an equal opportunity in school.
In this video they review the education of black and white students. They discuss the poverty effects on students and focus in on one little boy who has gone to three different schools and has been unsuccessful in learning basic skills such as reading, writing, and very simple math. In the video they also talk about the statistics of the African American students in Minneapolis stating, “70 percent of African Americans there are actually failing their state assessments.” (Do Black Students Do Worse on Tests). The video comes to close discussing the issue of which schools would be more beneficial to these children charter schools that regeressly test their students or public school that provide free basic learning.
In my opinion I do not think any of these “slow learning” statistics have anything to do with race. I am guessing this ONE kid they focused in on either has serious learning disabilities or has not been given a strong education by his schooling/schooling reinforcement by his parents. The numbers of kids that don’t pass these tests are not just African Americans or students from Minneapolis it’s a nationwide epidemic that is more pressing as society becomes more advanced. And To address the issues of which schools should receive more funding and attention it should be public schools that don’t—as the video states—have kids learn, recite, then forget information.
This video effects and relates to teaching and education because it addresses a serious stereotype that is complete bogus. African Americans are just as capable as any other race. We are all one breed; human. We all have the ability to learn and strive when guided to do so no matter the color of our skin.
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September 11, 2013 at 8:02am
"Future School of Finland." What concepts should future education embrace? If you could design school in the future, what would you make a priority?
What that video describes sounds a lot like CAPS and I think regular school should embrace all aspects of CAPS. In regular school you feel trap do not like a robot doing the same thing every day, that’s not what I want nor do I think what teachers want. Old ways of education are becoming outdated lets embrace the movement. When designing a school I would think about openness, school spirit, and comfort. Openness because school is already tripping you in the grounds of the area, why should we feel trapped in a classroom. Modern open windows provide more of an inviting atmosphere. School Spirit I would include because one of the best things about school is bonding with your peers, by the end of the years in school students should feel like somewhat of a family. The best way to install that is a common interest or love for their school. Last is comfort, no more plastic chairs and desk that restrict you from moving. Students need to feel comfort physically to be able to focus on their studies. Now when it comes to priority in school I’d say the largest one is working as a community. Strong since of family will keep kids from depression, suicide, and make them feel strong and welcome every day in school.