Friday, May 14, 2010
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Social Bookmarking (Delicious.com): NETS 1, 2, 3 & 5
This assignment required that I research several topics using the website Delicious.com. I was able to locate many websites covering a variety of subjects using Delicious. A couple of the topics I researched include: National Archives (resources for historical events) and Multicultural awareness. See below for further information.
During this assignment I learned to set up a Delicious account and organize websites I want to save into categories called "tags". The information saved on my Delicious account is available to other Delicious users for their own research, so this website promotes collaboration with others. To see examples of the websites I saved on Delicious, click one of the words in the "word block" on my blog to the left of this entry.
1. National Archives: The National Archives Eyewitness website contains a collection of eyewitness accounts of major historical events and the lives of important figures in history. The collection includes letters, pictures and some broadcasts from fifty years ago to hundreds of years ago. As I glanced over the table of contents, which include events such as: "The deadly Virus", a recount of the influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. I also looked in depth at a section focused on African American photographer, John H. White, which included writings, and photos of when he worked for the federal government photographing Chicago, especially the city’s African American community. His photographs portray the difficult circumstances faced by many of Chicago’s African American residents in the early 1970s, but they also catch the "spirit, love, zeal, pride, and hopes of the community". In the classroom, this collection would bring history to life for both middle school and high school students. For example, they would be able to see what was going on in Chicago for African Americans during his part of history. I found the website fascinating, and plan to use it in the classroom.
2. National Education Association: For this part of the assignment, I first learned that the following student groups experience achievement gaps: racial and ethnic minorities, English language learners, and students with disabilities and students from low-income families.
Three of the area that I feel will fit in my teaching styles are:
A.) Network with parent, family, minority community, and faith-based organizations concerned with the needs of diverse students. Solicit their involvement and input in the design and implementation of initiatives for culturally, linguistically, racially, and ethnically diverse groups.
I believe the key to a student’s success can be directly associated with their support network, or social support from those in their family, community, and faith-based organizations. To improve the chances of the student success, I would want make sure I am aware of all the needs and issues regarding my students, so that I may teach to ethnically diverse groups.
B.) Ensure that your school has a mission statement that commits to cultural competence as an integral component of all its activities. The cultural competence committee should be involved in developing this statement.
My schools mission statement should be the leading message to drive our approach to cultural diversity in the classroom. It is important for all teachers to be on one accord, and to have a road map to foster diversity, and strive to be an inclusive educator. It is important for a school to have a great mission statement, but they must continue to uphold the standards of the mission.
C.) Engage school staff in discussions and activities that offer an opportunity to explore attitudes, beliefs, and values related to cultural diversity and cultural competence.
I believe change in attitudes, beliefs, and values start within one individual, but have the greatest impact when challenged, and or reshaped with in a group discussion setting. Teachers must continue to engage discussion and activities around cultural diversity and competence in order to be prepared to serve both the students of today and the future.
3. Cyber Bullying
After taking the “Cyber bully test” at www.stopcyberbullying.org, my total score was 12, so I would be classified as cyber sinner. Though I didn’t score high enough to be a bully, I agree that I should change my practices. This test showed me how little things can lead to bigger issues in cyber space. After reading more in-depth of how teachers deal with different cyber bullies, I found out there are four different classifications:
• The Vengeful Angel
• The Power-Hungry or Revenge of the Nerds
• The “Mean Girls”
• The Inadvertent Cyberbully or “Because I Can”
The complete descriptions can be found at http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/educators/howdoyouhandleacyberbully.html, but the one that intrigued me was inadvertent cyberbully, because many casual net users could fall into this category. Inadvertent cyberbullies usually don’t think they are cyberbullies at all. They may be pretending to be tough online, or role playing, or they may be reacting to hateful or provocative messages they have received. I also learned that these types of bullies act more of impulse, rather than thinking about the broader ramifications of what they are sending.
4. Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
One area which interested me on this website, located in the “Subject Access” category, was: History and Social Studies. I choose this area because I think history and social studies can play important roles in developing students’ awareness of issues around cultures, race, and other societal issues across the world. In my perspective, I have found the more you know about history, you can begin to understand, how different events have affected people and society in general. Social studies allow for the various perspectives to be examined, not for correctness or the right experience, but just to show the differences and similarities between us as human beings. In the “teachers helpers” section I looked at the “gadget and podcasting” area. This was interesting because it went along with the idea of bringing technology into the classroom. I can see myself using this website when I am a teacher because it has great resources for any subject that a teacher would want to look into. It has great detailed information specifically for teachers and certain subjects.
5. Multiple Intelligence
My top three intelligences are:
Bodily-Kinesthetic 92%
Interpersonal 88%
Musical 63%
The video choose to watch was on Multiple Intelligence Leave No Child Left Behind on edutopia.org. The video focused on finding ways to get students to learn using their own particular strengths, instead of general curriculum. The teachers used specialized courses called “pods”, where teachers design courses around a subject such as music, and use the course to learn. I learned that many students have different learning styles. Furthermore, it’s a great way for students to understand their strengths, and how to best apply them to their life.
6. Teaching Tolerance Lesson Idea
I chose 3rd -5th grade and gender biases as my lesson plan. In the lesson plan students say out loud, “Give it a rest, no group is best.” I believe that especially at that age too many students feel that boys and girls have so many differences and in physical areas, especially, when in reality at that age they are equally strong and flexible. Having a norm in the classroom that focuses on equality of sexes is important, children focus too much on the differences between boys and girls and that carries on into adulthood. This lesson could also be used in for other biases like; racial or socioeconomic biases.
I chose 9th-12th grade and checking on stereotypes as my lesson plan. In this lesson students :
• Students will identify stereotypes they've experienced or heard
• Students will discuss how these stereotypes are not always true
• Students will identify specific ways to break down stereotypes
A key component in the development of culturally responsive conflict resolutions models is developing tools to identify and break down stereotyping. Stereotypes can be broken. When we bring people together to open up and honestly share who they are, stereotypes begin to shatter. We discover that other people are not the mental picture created by our stereotype. I would be able to use this lesson in class to help students understand stereo types.
7. In the Multicultural and Equity Awareness website I found that question three and question ten to be interesting. Question three was about the treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender groups in health care, I was shocked that 52% of physicians have witness unequal treatment by their colleagues to these groups. When one is a physician I feel it is their duty to give everyone equal treatment regardless of their sexual orientation. As a teacher I hope to promote tolerance of all cultures in my classroom. The second question that interested me was question ten, it was about the differences between legal amounts of powder cocaine (mostly used by the wealthy) and crack cocaine (mostly used by the lower class). The fact that there is such a difference in the legal possession amounts it astounding. It shows a huge bias in the socioeconomic class. This quiz was very interesting to me because I feel that I learned a lot about many different types of biases.
8. Netiquiette quiz
I got 100% on the Netiquiette quiz. It is important to teach student netiquiette because this is the age of technology and students are going to be on the internet for large portions of time and being rude online is just as bad as being rude in person. Teaching students how to properly use the Internet and to be polite online, and not offend other people. ;)
During this assignment I learned to set up a Delicious account and organize websites I want to save into categories called "tags". The information saved on my Delicious account is available to other Delicious users for their own research, so this website promotes collaboration with others. To see examples of the websites I saved on Delicious, click one of the words in the "word block" on my blog to the left of this entry.
1. National Archives: The National Archives Eyewitness website contains a collection of eyewitness accounts of major historical events and the lives of important figures in history. The collection includes letters, pictures and some broadcasts from fifty years ago to hundreds of years ago. As I glanced over the table of contents, which include events such as: "The deadly Virus", a recount of the influenza epidemic that swept the world in 1918 killed an estimated 50 million people. I also looked in depth at a section focused on African American photographer, John H. White, which included writings, and photos of when he worked for the federal government photographing Chicago, especially the city’s African American community. His photographs portray the difficult circumstances faced by many of Chicago’s African American residents in the early 1970s, but they also catch the "spirit, love, zeal, pride, and hopes of the community". In the classroom, this collection would bring history to life for both middle school and high school students. For example, they would be able to see what was going on in Chicago for African Americans during his part of history. I found the website fascinating, and plan to use it in the classroom.
2. National Education Association: For this part of the assignment, I first learned that the following student groups experience achievement gaps: racial and ethnic minorities, English language learners, and students with disabilities and students from low-income families.
Three of the area that I feel will fit in my teaching styles are:
A.) Network with parent, family, minority community, and faith-based organizations concerned with the needs of diverse students. Solicit their involvement and input in the design and implementation of initiatives for culturally, linguistically, racially, and ethnically diverse groups.
I believe the key to a student’s success can be directly associated with their support network, or social support from those in their family, community, and faith-based organizations. To improve the chances of the student success, I would want make sure I am aware of all the needs and issues regarding my students, so that I may teach to ethnically diverse groups.
B.) Ensure that your school has a mission statement that commits to cultural competence as an integral component of all its activities. The cultural competence committee should be involved in developing this statement.
My schools mission statement should be the leading message to drive our approach to cultural diversity in the classroom. It is important for all teachers to be on one accord, and to have a road map to foster diversity, and strive to be an inclusive educator. It is important for a school to have a great mission statement, but they must continue to uphold the standards of the mission.
C.) Engage school staff in discussions and activities that offer an opportunity to explore attitudes, beliefs, and values related to cultural diversity and cultural competence.
I believe change in attitudes, beliefs, and values start within one individual, but have the greatest impact when challenged, and or reshaped with in a group discussion setting. Teachers must continue to engage discussion and activities around cultural diversity and competence in order to be prepared to serve both the students of today and the future.
3. Cyber Bullying
After taking the “Cyber bully test” at www.stopcyberbullying.org, my total score was 12, so I would be classified as cyber sinner. Though I didn’t score high enough to be a bully, I agree that I should change my practices. This test showed me how little things can lead to bigger issues in cyber space. After reading more in-depth of how teachers deal with different cyber bullies, I found out there are four different classifications:
• The Vengeful Angel
• The Power-Hungry or Revenge of the Nerds
• The “Mean Girls”
• The Inadvertent Cyberbully or “Because I Can”
The complete descriptions can be found at http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/educators/howdoyouhandleacyberbully.html, but the one that intrigued me was inadvertent cyberbully, because many casual net users could fall into this category. Inadvertent cyberbullies usually don’t think they are cyberbullies at all. They may be pretending to be tough online, or role playing, or they may be reacting to hateful or provocative messages they have received. I also learned that these types of bullies act more of impulse, rather than thinking about the broader ramifications of what they are sending.
4. Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
One area which interested me on this website, located in the “Subject Access” category, was: History and Social Studies. I choose this area because I think history and social studies can play important roles in developing students’ awareness of issues around cultures, race, and other societal issues across the world. In my perspective, I have found the more you know about history, you can begin to understand, how different events have affected people and society in general. Social studies allow for the various perspectives to be examined, not for correctness or the right experience, but just to show the differences and similarities between us as human beings. In the “teachers helpers” section I looked at the “gadget and podcasting” area. This was interesting because it went along with the idea of bringing technology into the classroom. I can see myself using this website when I am a teacher because it has great resources for any subject that a teacher would want to look into. It has great detailed information specifically for teachers and certain subjects.
5. Multiple Intelligence
My top three intelligences are:
Bodily-Kinesthetic 92%
Interpersonal 88%
Musical 63%
The video choose to watch was on Multiple Intelligence Leave No Child Left Behind on edutopia.org. The video focused on finding ways to get students to learn using their own particular strengths, instead of general curriculum. The teachers used specialized courses called “pods”, where teachers design courses around a subject such as music, and use the course to learn. I learned that many students have different learning styles. Furthermore, it’s a great way for students to understand their strengths, and how to best apply them to their life.
6. Teaching Tolerance Lesson Idea
I chose 3rd -5th grade and gender biases as my lesson plan. In the lesson plan students say out loud, “Give it a rest, no group is best.” I believe that especially at that age too many students feel that boys and girls have so many differences and in physical areas, especially, when in reality at that age they are equally strong and flexible. Having a norm in the classroom that focuses on equality of sexes is important, children focus too much on the differences between boys and girls and that carries on into adulthood. This lesson could also be used in for other biases like; racial or socioeconomic biases.
I chose 9th-12th grade and checking on stereotypes as my lesson plan. In this lesson students :
• Students will identify stereotypes they've experienced or heard
• Students will discuss how these stereotypes are not always true
• Students will identify specific ways to break down stereotypes
A key component in the development of culturally responsive conflict resolutions models is developing tools to identify and break down stereotyping. Stereotypes can be broken. When we bring people together to open up and honestly share who they are, stereotypes begin to shatter. We discover that other people are not the mental picture created by our stereotype. I would be able to use this lesson in class to help students understand stereo types.
7. In the Multicultural and Equity Awareness website I found that question three and question ten to be interesting. Question three was about the treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender groups in health care, I was shocked that 52% of physicians have witness unequal treatment by their colleagues to these groups. When one is a physician I feel it is their duty to give everyone equal treatment regardless of their sexual orientation. As a teacher I hope to promote tolerance of all cultures in my classroom. The second question that interested me was question ten, it was about the differences between legal amounts of powder cocaine (mostly used by the wealthy) and crack cocaine (mostly used by the lower class). The fact that there is such a difference in the legal possession amounts it astounding. It shows a huge bias in the socioeconomic class. This quiz was very interesting to me because I feel that I learned a lot about many different types of biases.
8. Netiquiette quiz
I got 100% on the Netiquiette quiz. It is important to teach student netiquiette because this is the age of technology and students are going to be on the internet for large portions of time and being rude online is just as bad as being rude in person. Teaching students how to properly use the Internet and to be polite online, and not offend other people. ;)
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