Blog Post #C

Blog Post #C

Teacher and Student-Centered methods of teaching, this was the first thing that caught my attention when I started this chapter. The goal of a teacher is to teach and find their own way of making it work so that most of the students can take all that information with them. To me this means that not everyone in the classroom will completely understand everything in every lesson. Student-centered learning is hands on and I think it is a better way to engage all of the students because they get to participate. Student learning is a challenge for the students because they are using all of their known knowledge to learn and participate in the assignments that come straight from the teacher. Both of these learning methods are great combined in my opinion they would work best that way you both the teacher and student are actively participating.
The next concept that I think was very important was technology and constructivist approaches. I went back and read this concept several times because as the book states "technology can expand curriculum to include the world beyond the classroom, providing ways for students to engage with problems and develop solutions while introducing new authors to young readers and new audiences to young writes"(Maloy, et al p.52). This was great I wrote this down in several of my important books and notes. This is something that I as a future educator found important because we have to teach our students that there is a real life outside the classroom. This concept goes far beyond just readers and writers but, for a real life experience reading and writing are essential for the rest of our lifetime.

Redefining creativity, to be creative, to create something new. No this was all wrong until I kept reading and found that "The creative act can be what is new to the individual, not new to the world". To be creative does not mean create something someone has never done before it can always just be make it a little better put your own work into it and create the next generation. For example, I had never in my life done a blog post before and I lack creativity but from my first blog to this third blog I am creating something beautiful that is not new to the world but it is new to me.  Getting this far into technology proves that I may not be talented to create something new to the world but I am learning this for myself and I love it. Everyone is creative in their own way they just have to find that courage to keep going. Walking away now....


Resources:
Maloy, R., O'Loughlin, R., Edwards, S., & Woolf, B. (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc.


Jeimy, R (September 18, 2016) What would you do. With powtoon www.powtoon.com

Jaclyn, Brown (March 10, 2015) With www.Youtube.com Constructivist method of teaching.