I am currently enrolled in a master's program, in which I have been required to make occasional posts to my blog. Here are my responses to the prompts that I have been asked to complete this week:
A concept that I had not taken the time to fully study and understand was that of LMSs (Learning Management Systems). I have had to research these a bit for other courses but, never delved into them because I thought that they were not applicable to my teaching environment. I had previously understood that all LMSs either required teachers to create their own content/lessons on that platform or had to be joined with another platform to be utilized. Since my company has set curricula that cannot be replaced or changed, I thought that an LMS could not be implemented within my company. However, while conducting research for our most recent project, I discovered that there were a large variety LMSs available, that many of them had varying structures and features, and that there were LMSs that would potentially work with my company’s requirements and current format.
I cannot identify
one particular strategy from this course that I would implement with my
students. However, I have been able to
wrap my head around several tools (like a student-based blog) that I might
implement with them to enhance and extend learning. I would also implement the
LMS that was featured in my latest project, Edmodo. Edmodo offers a social media-type
format that I would be able to use with my students without interfering with
the curricula that my company utilizes. My
fellow teachers and I have traditionally struggled with learning extension and
enhancement since our classrooms are solely online. Utilizing Edmodo would also provide ways for
us to do that within a user-friendly format.
By the end of
this course, I hope to better understand how to integrate the concepts centered
around digital citizenship and ethical technology use in my particular setting. I teach in small groups and one-on-one
sessions that last 25 minutes with a set number of instructional slides to
cover during that time. I try to work
these concepts in frequently. However,
my constraints make it difficult. I would
like to feel more confident in my efforts and know that I am providing the best
possible educational experience for my students.
