Sunday, February 24, 2013

Blog Post # 6

The Networked Student:



This week I watched the video The Networked Student by Wendy Drexler. It was an interesting video to watch. The video was about how teachers make their students become independently self sufficient about learning. And all the learning is based off of scholarly networking websites and the internet. Textbooks, books, and paper are all thrown out the window. Instead of students being handed a book or a worksheet, students have the responsibility of finding out the correct information on a subject themselves. If the student has a question or wants to talk in depth about a particular subject, he or she also has access to top professors all over the world. The students aren't just stuck in a room writing notes anymore. Instead students are now going in depth into subjects and truly seeing how the world works.

So you ask "Why does the networked student even need a teacher?" No matter what students still need that one on one time with teachers. As humans grow they need someone to ask questions to, to get advice from, to look up to, and no matter what students will always need reinforcement. The whole point of a teacher is helping students grow and become a better person. Just because the way education is technologically changing doesn't mean the human emotion is going into that direction.

Am I ready to become a networked teacher? Yes! To me the whole point of becoming a teacher is to help push students creativity and brain power. Being a networked teacher is doing just that. Students are given a subject and he or she has to go and truly find out why that subject is the way it is. My major is Elementary Education. As a teacher I'll be teaching a variety of subjects. I'll try to teach each subject to the best of my ability, but I won't be an expert on each subject. With becoming a networked teacher and having the students talk one on one with professors who are experts on that specific subject is an amazing idea to use with my future students. They'll have an endless amount of information and knowledge to gain, and all of it will be at their own fingertips.

A 7th Graders Personal Learning Environment:



Ok. Her PLE was so organized and she knew exactly what she was talking about. She was totally confident on what she was talking about and knew exactly what she had to do. She talked about how she wasn't made to do any of what she was doing, but she did it anyway. To me that shows how responsible this 7th grade girl is. She made her PLE the way she wanted it to look like and was able to use the creative side of her barin, as well as work her knowledge of learning side. She did an excellent job, and I need to learn from her PLE, and start to work to make my PLN a little better...

2 comments:

  1. Great post! Sounds like you are going to be a well prepared teacher! good luck!

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  2. You hit the nail on the head with your picture! Zero Tolerance! Only 21st Century Teachers Allowed Here!

    Baldwin County is now ephasizing the use of challenge based, project-based and problem-based learning strategies at all grade levels. These efforts are similar to the networked student's approach to learning except the approaches vary according to grade. If you are not prepared or are not willing to be a networked teacher you can cross Baldwin County off your list of potential employers. So get ready to be a Networked Teacher!

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