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history of the field- week 6

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If I assigned as one of the evaluators for the project, and my finding clearly indicate that the innovation had very little effect on the manner in which instruction was presented in the teachers’ classroom, I can describe some possible reasons for that. The first possible reason that may let the project had very little effect on the instructional practices employed by the teacher is “the teachers resistance to change.” For example, let’s think how difficulties can occur for the math teacher in this project. As we all know, mathematics is one of the most difficult course to explain. Teachers need to use colorful pens in order to explain some mathematical problems. Also, they need to write many kinds of mathematical symptoms, draw curves and so on. Those teachers will not found it easy to use the laptops instead of pens or chalk and boards to explain in class. Or even to evaluate their students work. Moreover, “the failure to provide teachers with adequate guidance as to how to integrate the new media into their instructional practices” can be a reason lets the project had very little effect on the teacher’s instructional practices. For instance, for the science teacher, using the computer is very helpful. There are a lot of pictures, videos, and another helpful features of using the computer in science education. However, if the teacher do not know how to address all these features and integrate them into his or her instructional practices, there will not be an effective role of using these computers. In addition, the last reason I would like to add here is “the cost associated with purchasing and maintaining the necessary media hardware”. For example, when the language art teacher wanted to use a microphone to record the students’ sounds, in order to improve their pronunciation, the quality was very poor. Or, even if the teacher wanted to use the headphones, for phonetics practices, the headphones were poor quality. So, the teacher cannot use these features, and using the laptops was not too helpful in this case.

In my opinion, there are two strategies that may help to solve the problems above. First, is to provide a required course in using instructional technology for the teachers. So, they can address using the computers, and integrate them into their instructional practices perfectly. The second strategy is to test all the laptops by an expert and devote a budget for the maintenance work of these laptops to solve any problems such as the poor quality.

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week 4 reflection- wiki space

After I have experienced setting up and using a wiki space, the first thing comes to my mind is that wiki is a perfect technology for creating lesson plans. That because I, as a new teacher, will need some help and some editing for my lesson plans from my sisters and friends who are teachers. So, I can create my lesson plan and then share it with them to avoid mistakes as possible as I can. For example, they may tell me it will be better if you divide that lesson into two days instead of one day. Or, they may ask me to add something interesting to the lesson to keep students engaged. Moreover, I can use wiki for a whole class project. For instance, this week the project will be to write about a certain scientist. So, each group or student will post something about that scientist. Or even if many scientist developed the same topic or domain, I will let each group to pick a scientist and write what he did or what are his achievements in that domain. Also, I can use wiki with my students as a performance list. For example, I can post every week the names of the excellent students for that week, and give them a space to comment. I think that will encourage the students to do their best to be in this list. Also, I can use wiki at the end of the semester to create a review plan page, so the students will have a space to list their questions for the review. In this way, I can organize the review lesson to be able to answer all their questions and add other day for the review if needed. In addition, the principle of the school or any other group’s leader can use wiki to organize their meeting. For instance, if the principle of the school want to do a convention, he can use wiki to give a chance to the teachers to list what points they want to discuss. All those are some ideas to use wiki for educational purposes.

Not only in my career life wiki will help me, but also in my normal life as well. I think wiki will be a great and helpful technology to organize my events. For example, if I and my family plan to do a surprise for my brother, who will graduate soon, wiki will be the best tool to help us organize this party. We can share our ideas about the place we will celebrate in, the best time for all of us, and the other things we will need for the celebration. Finally, the ideas above were some of my thoughts about wikis, and there are multiple uses for wiki to our different needs.