Lizet Gutierrez - Teacher Blog

Technology/TPACK Lesson Application Describe an instructional activity (e.g. part of a lesson plan) where you can incorporate this technology.   Consider an activity that can be conducted in 5 – 10 minutes. ·          Learners:   The learners will be for 4 th grade English.      ·          Learning Outcomes:   At the end of this activity students will gain a much better understanding and knowledge of contractions.   They will be able to distinguish and match the words to their contractions at sight.     ·          Assessment:   Students will be informally assessed by matching the correct combination of words to their correct contraction while playing Piñata Party:   Contraction Action.   We will all play together as a class on the smartboard.   This will help me check for understanding o...

            I think 3D printing in the classroom is a great idea that not only the teachers but the students especially can benefit from.   Sometimes we might try not to incorporate technology very much in our classroom, but with this generation I do think it would be of our best interest to do so.               The 3D printer can be used to print different things that will help our students.   Some students are more kinesthetic learners and with 3D printing we can print off a plethora of objects to help them learn.   I also believe that this kind of teaching will encourage the students to want to learn.   The majority of students love learning when they are able to touch and see what they are talking about.               With 3D printing we are also able to bring the students’ creatio...

For my first article I read, Equivalency of Paper Versus Tablet Computer Survey Data .  This article emphasizes on the differences between surveys on paper and surveys online, on a tablet.  The most common online surveys are through email.  The downside to email surveys is that most people ignore them.  However, what if the person just does not understand what the survey is asking and decides to just not do it?  Well, we are not sure what exactly happened because it is via email and it is to the person’s discretion whether he/she decides to do it or not.              On the campus of a midwestern university, 292 college undergraduates were invited to participate in the survey taking, but only 258 accepted.  About 133 students took the survey on paper and the other 125 students took the survey on a tablet.  At the end of this experiment, I believe it is safe to say that it is most reliable t...

Technology plays a major part of our lives, whether we want to admit it or not, it does.  We use it daily at work, school, and even at home.  Technology is at our fingertips.  For example, most of us, if not all of us always have our cell phone in our pocket, handbag, or hand. In the article, "Summon the Comfy Chairs," it talks about the Walt Disney Mary Poppins Movie and how the furniture moves at just the snap of Mary's fingers.  The article then later presents the idea of things like this eventually becoming a part of our reality.  Besides having moving furniture at the snap of one's fingers sounds, I cannot imagine them having a personality!  That's a little creepy.  What if you command you bed to make itself but it refuses to do so because of their personality? In "Teaching Robots Right From Wrong," they talk about how Japan, Europe, and the United States of America are building robots to be able to care for the elderly and disabled. ...