Digital Blog Post #J- Chapter 11

Throughout reading this text book, I have come upon many great ideas that I could incorporate in my future teaching. One great idea that is suggested in Chapter 11 is the use of a website called SurveyMonkey. This website allows people to use up to ten questions to ask others, and no more than one hundred responses per survey. This could be used in my language arts classroom to help students gather support when writing an essay.

This chapter also introduces the use of clickers. Clickers are small handheld devices in which students use to enter their responses. I think clickers are a great tool to use in the classroom; they can not only make learning fun, but they can also be used as a form of assessing the students. A teacher can see what material he or she has to spend more time on, simply by using clickers. The video below introduces and explains the use of clickers.

In this chapter I also learned about civic engagement and service learning. Civic engagement refers to experiences that students have outside of the classroom working for the improvement of the community. Service learning refers to outside-the-classroom experiences by students that feature both service and learning. This Link talks about the differences in civic engagement and service learning. Not only did I learn about these two terms for the first time, but I also learned about the different ways to enhance and extend civic and service projects. The five different ways that the book suggests are:

1. Through personal self-reflection
2. Project documentation
3. Service projects in schools and communities
4. Social media projects
5. Apps for social change

I believe that social media projects would be the most beneficial in the classroom, as it would keep students interested and engaged in their learning.


Chapter 11 brings many ideas that I could use in my future teaching. Three of which include using a website called SurveyMonkey, using clikcers, and incorporating civic engagement and service learning.

References:




Garcia, V. (2016, November 11). Survey your classmates. Retrieved November 11, 2016.




James, R. (2010, April 7). Using Clickers in the Classroom. Retrieved November 11, 2016.




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


Service Learning and Civic Engagement. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/lisav/service-learning-civic-engagement