Elise's Blog

A very brief movie on some of the benefits of reading

. Through personal experience with high school classrooms, I really only see myself using data collection to conduct surveys like an end-of-the-year survey to see if students enjoyed being in my class and liked or disliked the assignments I provided, or a survey to see which book(s) my students would prefer to read since I would like to teach English and will probably have many books that my students will read throughout the year. I could see many more applications for data collection and/or reporting schools for younger age levels. . Since most of mine and my classmates' blogs are on similar topics, I found it interesting to see their different opinions on the same topics. It was also interesting to see fellow classmates who desired to be teachers talk about the technologies we have learned about and how their applications differed from mine. Although I desire to teach high school, I have been exposed to the inner workings of elementary school classrooms which is an area a lot o

. The flipped classroom is an educational design in where instead of coming to class, listening to a lecture, and then doing homework on the lecture, the lectures are provided beforehand and students are able to come to class as "active learners engaged in exploration and discovery within the content's framework." The students are able to participate in group or individual activities to clarify information about the lecture instead of asking questions as the lecture is going on in class which can disrupt other students' learning. Teachers are using a variety of methods to make their lectures available such as sharing them on a closed network or website, writing them as blogs, and/or posting videos to YouTube. . Open education is about making educational experiences to a wide audience. Essentially it is education that is not confined by any specific are like geography, academic level, etc.  The Great Courses Plus (https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/special-offer?&am