6.3 Field Experiences
Candidates engage in appropriate field experiences to synthesize and apply the content and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions identified in these standards.
Artifact: Teaching ASP Teachers
Reflection:
In ITEC 7430, we learned about a lot of different Web 2.0 tools that could be used in our teaching. While talking to the After School Program (ASP) director at my school one day I had an epiphany of how I could help him, some of the ASP workers, and myself. I volunteered to teach a class to the ASP workers who were willing to learn about some different tools they could use for the students in the program. This artifact of a field experience blog post I wrote demonstrates mastery of Standard 6.3 because I engaged in appropriate field experiences to synthesize and apply the content and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions identified in the technology standards.
I taught three ASP workers during the last class period of the day right before they had to report for work. I chose to focus on setting up a Delicious account and adding content to the account. I thought this would be something they could not only use for the students at school in providing websites they could use in the technology lab, but it would also provide the girls with something they could use for gathering good sites for their college classes, too. We spent a couple weeks on Delicious. I had them pull up their pages and share sites they found. I taught them about Zamzar so they could find appropriate videos from Youtube to convert and use for ASP rainy days. I also showed them how to make a website using Wix, and asked them to review the webpage I had made using this program. They had some good feedback and ideas about how the site could be used. The next class was spent on something they were much more familiar with than me – Twitter. I was not completely sure of how Twitter was used or what the benefits were, so I asked the girls to teach me about the site and asked that they provide feedback and ideas about how it could be used from an educational standpoint. This was a fun field experience that I think we all benefitted from.
Teaching to this age range was new to me. I felt a little out of my element for some reason. I wanted to be cool, but still have them take me seriously when it came to coming to our sessions and having something to contribute. I feel that I may have been too informal and would have liked to have thought out the course a little more and maybe provided a short syllabus or guide. I also wish that I had made a feedback form for them to fill out that provided some reflection on our work together.
The impact of the course was good. They learned from me and I learned from them. I feel that if everyone is learning then the class is a success. Also, one of the girls, who had been dragging her feet about getting back into school, told me that this learning experience had made her consider going back more seriously. I need to follow up with her to see how that worked out. She still works in the ASP program, so I can check on her in the fall.
In ITEC 7430, we learned about a lot of different Web 2.0 tools that could be used in our teaching. While talking to the After School Program (ASP) director at my school one day I had an epiphany of how I could help him, some of the ASP workers, and myself. I volunteered to teach a class to the ASP workers who were willing to learn about some different tools they could use for the students in the program. This artifact of a field experience blog post I wrote demonstrates mastery of Standard 6.3 because I engaged in appropriate field experiences to synthesize and apply the content and professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions identified in the technology standards.
I taught three ASP workers during the last class period of the day right before they had to report for work. I chose to focus on setting up a Delicious account and adding content to the account. I thought this would be something they could not only use for the students at school in providing websites they could use in the technology lab, but it would also provide the girls with something they could use for gathering good sites for their college classes, too. We spent a couple weeks on Delicious. I had them pull up their pages and share sites they found. I taught them about Zamzar so they could find appropriate videos from Youtube to convert and use for ASP rainy days. I also showed them how to make a website using Wix, and asked them to review the webpage I had made using this program. They had some good feedback and ideas about how the site could be used. The next class was spent on something they were much more familiar with than me – Twitter. I was not completely sure of how Twitter was used or what the benefits were, so I asked the girls to teach me about the site and asked that they provide feedback and ideas about how it could be used from an educational standpoint. This was a fun field experience that I think we all benefitted from.
Teaching to this age range was new to me. I felt a little out of my element for some reason. I wanted to be cool, but still have them take me seriously when it came to coming to our sessions and having something to contribute. I feel that I may have been too informal and would have liked to have thought out the course a little more and maybe provided a short syllabus or guide. I also wish that I had made a feedback form for them to fill out that provided some reflection on our work together.
The impact of the course was good. They learned from me and I learned from them. I feel that if everyone is learning then the class is a success. Also, one of the girls, who had been dragging her feet about getting back into school, told me that this learning experience had made her consider going back more seriously. I need to follow up with her to see how that worked out. She still works in the ASP program, so I can check on her in the fall.