As we learned in our podcast for this week’s lesson, open
education is all about making education material easily accessible to a wide
audience. An example that was discussed was making course materials and
lectures from a university to be accessed by anyone over the Internet for free.
This open learning experience offers the opportunity for a motivated connected
learner to learn just about anything on their own time and typically without
cost. When I find myself struggling with a certain lesson of topic, I often use
the open education source, MIT OpenCourseWare which is a tool that offers a
variety of free courses and video lessons. There are many other colleges such
as Yale, Harvard, and UC Berkeley that offer free online educational material, not
only is there study help for students but open content for teachers too. Open content allows for teachers to reuse,
revise, remix, or redistribute educational material for their teaching. Access
to these materials allows for students to obtain higher quality and up to date
materials, allowing for a better future for our advancing society.
Open educational resources (OER) are materials meant for teaching or learning that are either available to the public without cost or have been released under a license that allows them to be freely used, changed, and shared with others.An article from Education Week gives an overview about how OER is different from other online materials, how it relates to the federal education law, and how it is used. It also talks about how the majority use of OER by teachers is to provide additional practice and sources for an existing lesson. On the other hand, these resources can also be used for those who do not have access to education and wish to expand their learning, which makes open educational resources a beneficial tool for today's youth.
Check out my comments on Kathryn's and Alexis's Blog Post #3!
Sunday, June 9, 2019
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Blog Journal #3
I started learning how to use Microsoft Word in my computer education class in middle school. We learned the basics of it to do things like writing book reports or creating a poster. As I advanced into high school, we were taught how to use the layouts to write research papers and build our resume. Throughout my time of being a student, I have seen my teachers use Microsoft Word to create study guides by inserting graphs, pictures, and links to outside sources pertaining to the course material. Microsoft Word allows for educators and students to quickly organize information and allows for many different ways to format and present it.
Some examples of copyright and fair use of materials in an educational environment can include sighting academic articles for a research paper, using educational readings in a lesson, or inserting images and videos in presentations. As stated in the podcast regarding this topic, fair use guidelines allow for educators to utilize copy right materials for educational purposes depending on how the material is used, how much is used, and what impact it had by being used. As a teacher, if I was using material as examples for my own lessons and teaching I would make sure to always give cite or give credit to the material as well as do research in order to make sure the specific material was being used properly. I would also make sure my students understood the importance of respecting other educator’s as well as their peers work by always citing and giving credit when it is due.
In regards to copyright, I would emphasize the importance of citing other people’s work in students’ essays and presentations by teaching how to properly cite another person’s material in its own lesson. I would also establish that there will be no tolerance for plagiarism which will ultimately result in failure of the assignment. Similarly, academic honesty will be held at the same standard as the copy right issue. It will be established in the beginning of the course that cheating on or copying another student’s work will not be tolerated and also will result in failure of the assignment, and possibly further consequences. Whether or not technology is being used in the classroom or not, it is important that the issue of cyberbullying is discussed. I would not only implement a lesson based on right and wrong ways of using the Internet, but I would encourage students to speak up if they ever witness or experience cyberbullying from another person.
Some examples of copyright and fair use of materials in an educational environment can include sighting academic articles for a research paper, using educational readings in a lesson, or inserting images and videos in presentations. As stated in the podcast regarding this topic, fair use guidelines allow for educators to utilize copy right materials for educational purposes depending on how the material is used, how much is used, and what impact it had by being used. As a teacher, if I was using material as examples for my own lessons and teaching I would make sure to always give cite or give credit to the material as well as do research in order to make sure the specific material was being used properly. I would also make sure my students understood the importance of respecting other educator’s as well as their peers work by always citing and giving credit when it is due.
In regards to copyright, I would emphasize the importance of citing other people’s work in students’ essays and presentations by teaching how to properly cite another person’s material in its own lesson. I would also establish that there will be no tolerance for plagiarism which will ultimately result in failure of the assignment. Similarly, academic honesty will be held at the same standard as the copy right issue. It will be established in the beginning of the course that cheating on or copying another student’s work will not be tolerated and also will result in failure of the assignment, and possibly further consequences. Whether or not technology is being used in the classroom or not, it is important that the issue of cyberbullying is discussed. I would not only implement a lesson based on right and wrong ways of using the Internet, but I would encourage students to speak up if they ever witness or experience cyberbullying from another person.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Blog Journal #2
The world around us is constantly changing and evolving as technology becomes more prevalent in everything we do, so why wouldn’t the classroom do the same? Education must adapt to the technologically advanced world we are becoming which has influenced the use of technology in the classroom.
ISTE has set standards for technology use in education which provide guidance for identifying the technology skills, knowledge, and dispositions that different groups should aim to develop in order to succeed. One of the ISTE standards talks about how students must be prepared to grow in a constantly evolving technological setting. A section of the student standards say that they should work to be global collaborators by “using digital tools to broaden their perspectives and enrich their learning by collaborating with others and working effectively in teams locally and globally” (ISTE Standards for Students, n.d.). This is meaningful to me because I see technology as a way to broaden our experience and our point of view by being able to communicate with people from all parts of the world so quickly and efficiently. A student standard I believe is outside my current skill set is the innovative designer portion which suggests that “students should use a variety of technologies within a design process in order to identify and solve problems by creating new and imaginative solutions” (ISTE Standards for Students, n.d.).
The term “digital natives” is used describe young people and their relationship to technology, and the idea that they have more knowledge when it comes to technology then the older generations. I believe this label is accurate but could possibly be misleading. I agree with the idea that teachers should be better equipped to teach this generation of “digital natives” due to our world constantly advancing in technology and how we teach and learn. This term, however, can be misleading to assuming that this generation knows all we need to know about technology solely because we were raised playing games on a computer and learning how to work a phone before we learned to ride a bike. There is so much more to learn about technology then simply how to use it. Our next step is teaching “digital natives” how to utilize these technology skills in order to advance our way of thinking and solving problems. Technology is always advancing and changing, and so must our ways of teaching. I anticipate that my students will be slightly more advanced in using technology, whereas my generation was much more advanced than our own teachers. I believe as we start to see the need to keep up with the advancements of technology, the gap between these so called “digital natives” and “digital immigrants” will cease to exist.
References
ISTE Standards for Students. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/standards/for-students
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Blog Journal #1: Hello and Welcome to My Blog!
My name is Margaux and this is my blog containing all the information you will need to know in regards to the course EME 2040 as well as educational technology in our world today. I was born and raised in Fort Myers, Florida, but my family and I recently moved north to Jacksonville, Florida (probably the farthest north we will ever go). I am currently a junior majoring in Family and Child Sciences with a minor in Education. I hope to begin teaching the elementary level after I graduate college. I am excited to see how this course will better equip me with the tools I need to teach the next generation. I love the idea of technology in education and seeing all the new and advanced methods of using technology in the classroom.
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