Blog for LAI590

REACTION TO FLIPPED CLASSROOMS                               (MOD#8) These two articles (one found here and the other here ) are not much different from other articles I've read about flipping one's classroom. It seems to be a good way of trying to have students get the most out of their class time at school by having them initially learn the material and concepts at home and then come to school to practice what they had learned with their peers while the instructor facilitates the interaction of the students' usage of the concepts. In this way, the students are able to use the class content in a more meaningful way, and the teacher gives advice, asks engaging questions, and makes sure that the students correctly understand the material and that they are on task. When you add all of these elements together, they give us those perfect stereotypical photos of the teacher and the students all smiling together in ...

REACTIONS TO VIDEOS FOR MOD#3 I recently watched this video , and there are a few things I would like to say about it. The beginning of the video discussed many of the concepts that we are learning today will be obsolete in the future, so as time goes on, so should the nature of what we teach (I found this especially true for information retrieval skills). In this way we are preparing students and giving them the tools to handle what they will encounter in the future. I really have to agree with this. As time goes on, technology and the needs of our society develop along with it. Many students graduate from high school today without the necessary skills needed to tackle the real world. Implementing this would be difficult and controversial, but we should identify what skills students will need for the future, and what skills will be obsolete, and adjust our curriculum as needed. The second half of the video talked about how we can do this and how we can engage our students in the l...