Peyton's Intro to Education Blog!

As a teacher, I feel I will collect data for many things, but specifically for attendance and student performance. Attendance will be collected for safety purposes so that I am always aware of who is here and who is not in case of an emergency and for group assignment purposes. For third grade math specifically, I will track student performance in a spread sheet so I can measure their progress over the year. I will have a spread sheet with columns such as Q1 test, Q2 test, Q3 test, and Q4 test, then divide each of those up into the different benchmarks we focus on throughout those weeks. By doing this, I will be able to observe who is learning properly and then reflect back on my teaching styles to see if that has anything to do with their positive/negative scores. With parents, I will use Qualtrics or a Google Doc Survey form if I ever need them to fill out papers regarding their child. 

 

·         A paragraph about open educational resources (OER): From what I have read, open educational resources are materials that you can find on the internet and use in your classroom for free without having to deal with copyright and creative commons licensing. This includes a variety of resources such as lesson plans, homework assignments, assessments, and many more things that can be accessed on the OER commons website. The journal I found regarding this topic is called OER & Beyond (https://oerandbeyond.org) . This page doesn’t have a ton of OER resources in it, but it is a community where people can go and learn more about open educational resources and give/receive opinions on it.  ·         A paragraph on new skills you acquired from working on Assignment 4: I felt like I learned a lot from Assignment 4 considering it was my first time recording a slideshow like that and trying to save it in that format as well. Something I liked about this assignment was that I was able t

·         Post a link   to your website designed in  Assignment 3 :  https://peytonpclassroom.weebly.com/   ·         A paragraph about your daily use of AI tools: Personally, I do not use AI tools often and I think I have only used it once in my life. That one time was when I was writing a graduation speech and someone told me to have ChatGPT write one for me just to get some ideas and then I could edit it from there. It did end up working really well but I don’t think I have used it since then because I am always scared that if I use it for class I would get in trouble and I would rather just do the work myself. My only motivation to use AI comes from the fact that my research teacher told us that we could look up research topics for our big projects if we couldn’t think anything, but not to use it further than that. Hearing this come from a teacher made me feel better about potentially just using it to brainstorm but I don’t think I’ll ever use it for more than that. I do not have a

·         A paragraph about teacher pages on a school website:   The school site that I chose to evaluate was my high school, Lake Brantley High School. When going to their website, at the top there are options of whether you are interested in learning more about Academics, Student Life, Athletics, etc.. From there, there is a drop down from each one and the specific one I looked at was the Student Life one which is where I would assume teacher pages would be, and I found options including clubs, leadership options, Student Government, and many more things which is all public information. This is extremely helpful for both students and parents, because when looking into classes and electives that they might want to take or even extra-curriculars, all of the options take you a page with information regarding that specific topic. https://www.lakebrantley.com   ·         A paragraph about how you envision yourself using technology to accomplish your professional responsibilities more effi

    A paragraph about your initial experiences using Diigo: To be completely honest, when I first started using Diigo I was a little confused, only because it looks like a search page which I didn’t expect. Since I have started using it, though, I have really liked the layout and that you can see other’s post on the main page right when you log on. It is a little different than a normal web tool I would use with the bookmarking and the steps that go into that, but I think I could get used to it overtime. I don’t think there is anything I don’t like about this website, like I said I think I will get used to it overtime.          A paragraph about your experience with blogging: I never really had experience with blogging until this year. Now, I have to posts blog for two different classes which has given me more opportunities to learn about it. Something I like about blogging is that they are all in the same place/page, so I can go back and look at them whenever. It is also super easy to