Eli's Education Blog (EME2040)

Hey everybody, I think I can use data collection and reporting as a history teacher as a way to check my students' knowledge about topics so I can better know what I should teach and what I can skip over. I could let them do a survey at the beginning of the year or semester, asking how well they know certain historical topics and ask them what they want to learn. This would help me better refine my lesson plan and make it a better fit for my class so I am not going over things they either already know or something they are not interested in. With data reporting, I think I would use it as a way to better visualize certain things for them to understand. I love visualizations, as seen in my two ILPS, therefore I would use excel to make some simple graphs and charts to show them a new way to look at the numbers/data. My favorite thing when I was looking at other peoples blogs was looking at there assignments that we had to post about. Seeing every bodies website, PowerPoint and ILP...

Hey Everybody, The concept of a Flipped Classroom is very intriguing to me, in the concept, the time in the classroom is not devoted to a lecture where the teacher talks to the students but a time for the students to work on assignments and projects together  with the supervision of the teacher. That then means that the student will learn the materiel or the lesson before the class through online lectures and should be prepared. I think this kind of classroom structure could work with many subjects, though, a total switch to this system might not be the best move. A gradual transition would be needed to able the students the ability to get accustomed to because it is not the traditional way to teach. OERs are for me resources(that include lesson plans, texts, assignments, and other things) that teachers can use, that are in the public domain and do not need to be bought. They are free to use for anyone and their were created by a person or a group of people for that very reason...