Exit Slip

Today, my peers and I discussed and presented the chapter that was required to be read for this week. Preparing and presenting the chapter allowed me to fully immerse myself in the content in this chapter. So, I feel that I learned this chapter the best out of all the chapters we have read so far, and I already discussed my thoughts on the chapter in my last blog.
Along with the chapter, all of the cool tool presentations were new resources to use that could be beneficial to me in my future. The dweeber website, which is an online social networking tool that focuses on school work, is a resource that I can share with my future students. It would be a great way to have my students become "dweebs" and work collaboratively with their peers. Also, the parentella website would be very beneficial for me as a future teacher. I viewed this website as a great resource to update and communicate with parents along with using newsletters, emails, and phone calls to communicate with parents.
In addition, the contemporary issues that were presented were very interesting. Online tutoring, how poverty effects young children, and using video games as a teaching tool. None of these issues were completely new to my knowledge; however, adding video games as an educational tool in the classroom is something I have never seen used before. I do see it beneficial to some children who will learn better with a more interactive and fun video game opposed to drilling information to children. In my opinion, a component to being a life long learner means being open and flexible to using new tools and being open to new ideas, like using video games for schooling, and applying them.