Lindsay Hacker's Blog (7)

Open Sourse Course Reflection

Open Source Course: Digital Citizenship for Everyone: Resources for Students, Teachers and Families

Personal reflection:

This course advertised itself as a course designed to teach the participants how to create digitally responsible users of the internet. It also supplied resources for teachers and parents for lesson on digital citizenship. Overall, they shared resources that are available through their organization, but you need to purchase those resources if…

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Added by Lindsay Hacker on February 25, 2012 at 5:17pm — No Comments

Virtual Reality in Education

After researching various types of virtual reality, I do not think that virtual worlds give students a better learning experience than real world experiences. Originally, I believed that virtual reality worlds offered unique experiences for students to experience things they would not otherwise have access to.  Pictures of students taking a virtual tour through the Louvre, participating in historic events, and visiting fictional cities were floating around in my head as I thought of the…

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Added by Lindsay Hacker on February 11, 2012 at 10:55pm — No Comments

Social Networking and Digital Citizenship Reflection

Before starting this week’s assignments, I looked at the heading and read “Social Networking and Digital Citizenship” and I felt like I already knew a lot about these two specific topics. However, once I started to do some reading on the topics, I realized that there was actually quite a bit about both that I never really considered. For starters, I consider myself to be pretty proficient in the world of social media. I am an active member of many different types of social media personally,…

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Added by Lindsay Hacker on February 4, 2012 at 2:38pm — No Comments

Acceptable Use Policies

My District's AUP Wordle:…

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Added by Lindsay Hacker on January 24, 2012 at 7:59pm — No Comments

Bloom and Marzano

As a fairly new teacher, I very recently went through my teacher certification program. It seems that Bloom and Marzano are the only people who have impacted education, because they are always the focus of every education class I have taken. Since I have been aware of the strategies around both, I have been implementing them in my classroom for several years now. I feel that I do a good job of incorporating Marzano’s strategies. When I plan my daily lessons, I make sure to vary the…

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Added by Lindsay Hacker on January 22, 2012 at 12:41pm — No Comments

Investigating Bloom's Taxonomy

Reflection

The students in my class regularly access all levels of Bloom’s taxonomy, and they do so consciously. I specifically teach the various levels of understanding found in Bloom’s taxonomy, and my students are asked to identify the specifically skills we are using each day. One particular lesson format I like to use is Socratic Seminars.…

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Added by Lindsay Hacker on January 21, 2012 at 2:14pm — No Comments

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Stay tuned for the adventures of blogs and wikis in the middle school classroom.

Added by Lindsay Hacker on January 15, 2012 at 9:34pm — No Comments

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