Evaluation

After presenting my PLN in class, i think that i didn't prepare enough, by practising talking and have the materials needed, and my writing didn't have enough detail in it and could have been longer. Also i could have spoke up more and made more eye contact, and work on not saying "ummm" and "like" so much. But besides that i have learned from my mistakes and now i know how to prepare for my next presentation.

PLN 1.5

After Reading the blog 2cents worth by David Warlick, I came across a post named How Long Does It Take To Become a Tool. As I read the article it talked about how students, who were 10-12 years old, were using e-mail inappropriately, do to an unfiltered server. But as the article went on one teacher mentioned that at first it was a great idea for students to be able to use email in class, but over time she had realized that it was a bad mistake to give students such a privilege to use computers and laptops.
What Matters:
As i read the blog i thought what matters from this post, and to myself i think that what matters in this blog is that teachers are willing to give students the opportunity and privilege to extend the students learning ability by letting them use computers. But what also matters in this blog is that if students aren't mature enough to use laptops or computers they shouldn't be given the chance to use them in the first place.
How it relates to our class:
This post relates to our class more than any other blog that i have read so far this year. This is mostly because we are also using e-mail and laptops in our class. But because we are older and more mature ( but not much more mature ) then the students in the original blog, we wont be using them inappropriately, and wasting the privilege to extend our learning ability by using laptops or computers in class.

PLN week 1.4

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6972859?source=rssWhile reading the Denver Post blog, i came across a post called Old friendships stronger then nations anger. The article talked about how a teacher from the Peace Corps is teaching Iranian students how to speak English, and how he would like to re-unite Iran and the U.S.

This matters: This matters because it shows the world that the U.S. is more then just a physical country and can handle things in more of a peaceful way. Also it shows that the U.S. cares about the education other countries get. And if kids in countries like Iran or Iraq are getting better education, their education could help their country become a success.

This doesn't really relate to what we are doing in class. But if the kids in Iran or Iraq have better education and make their country more successful then they could make more money to be able to buy laptops and improve education even more.

PLN week 1.1

In the blog The Ficschbowl, about teachers being technologaclly illiterate is a very interesting blog that has a lot of usefull information. In my eyes here is What Matters from the blog The Ficshbowl.
What matters to me in this blog mostly is how it explains how teachers who don't know how to use technology is a bad thing and that those who dont are holding students back from learning so much more than they could from a book. This matters to me because it shows me how much technology has dramaticaly improved learing.
This realates to what we're doing in class more than anything. This is because in our classroom we use laptops to help us extend our knowledge and help us learn more. Also having a teacher that knows how to work a computer well really helps when every student in the class is using a computer.
This also relates to the world. The way it relates to the world is if your using computers all through school it will eventually lead to greater education, and if you don't it will be harder once you enter the real life. This is because if you get a job and you have to use a computer and you dont know how to use a computer you'll fall behind in work, and by that time there will be someone who knows how to do their job correctly and could take your job at anytime.

PLN week 1.2

While the Denver Post blog, i came across an article called Local readers go for world record. This article started off by saying that Mayor John Hickenlooper is reading to kids in 1st grade, as the article continued they mentioned that Mayor John Hickenlooper is reading to these kids to "Jumpstart: Read for the Record".
What Matters:
This article matters because it shows that we are trying to improve literacy rates in the United States.
How it matters to me:
This matters to me because its nice to know that our education is getting better in the US. Even though it has always been good, but now a days it's getting to be superb.
How it matters to the world:
This really matters to the world because with students becoming smarter that means that the future world will become better. This is because if people are smarter then there will b more people to invent new things that could revolutionize the future world.