Blog Post #6

Conversations with Anthony Capps 

    The conversations with Anthony Capps were very inspirational. Project based learning is incorporating projects into the lesson plan. Anthony mentions in the video Project Based Learning Part 1 that project based learning is normally used at the end of a lesson to see if the student actually learned what he or she is suppose to. Capps implies that is not the case of PBL that you should inquire projects during the lesson as method of resources to allow the student to participate while retaining the information. I am a more hands on learner myself. I love doing projects on new things, at the end when I am done I feel I have developed a new skill and expanded my knowledge.
    PBL Part 2 provided us with a project that all kid love. Capps asked his students to write a script as if they were a child in Afghanistan while incorporating cultures. One student's parents served our country in Afghanistan and didn't want their child to learn about the horror stories that exist oversees. Capps allowed this particular student to do a science project instead of completing the culture one. This will happen to us eventually and Capps did the right thing. It is important to please the parents while meeting the standards provided by each state in the learning process. Icurio is a website that has pulled information and made it child proof for them to access and search what it is they are looking up. This is used like a search engine for the students. This website also allows for storage so you can keep everything stored. This is also away to keep everything organized.
    Visual learning is one of the many ways I like to learn. If I can see it and have something to relate it to I am more likely to remember it or even elaborate on it. Discovery Ed provides you with illustrations to go with just about every subject to help you provide that visual learning to your students. The students can also use this as a search engine. The site also gives the students a video to watch and have another resource and not just the teacher. It also brings the text to life according to Anthony Capps.
Providing tips for future teachers is a great way to be added to someone's PLN. Tips for Teachers offers beneficial tips to future educators. John Strange offers that you have got to be interested in learning yourself. You need to be constantly learning to help understand different strategies to help your students learn on different levels. Capps says you need to be interested in learning as a hobby. You should be wanting to make lesson plans or discover things to add to your curriculum even when you are not on the clock, hard work. Enjoy what you do. The video Dr.Strange and  Capps has put together gives you tips from an educator and an educator who has just started.
    Technology is slowly being incorporated into the classroom. Technology should be a source to help the students learn, not the curriculum itself. Use Tech Don't Teach It is a great video explaining how technology can be incorporated in the classroom.