Week 4

I am a person that is constantly asking questions.  When I was in high school I was on the newspaper staff, I never had a problem finding questions to ask during interviews.  I love the fact that inquiry is about asking questions and researching to find the answers.  I love that Science and Social Studies are both looking at inquiry as a way to learn.  I have always had the desire to learn and to keep learning by looking deeper at things.  Sometimes I could sit for hours researching a subject and not just using technology.  I am a library person, I love looking through the stacks and search for different subjects and paging through the books.  I do love the technology side of research and answering the questions I seek answers to.  I hope that I can bring that love for inquiry to my students.

In class, I had so much fun putting together our tutorial video for glogster.  It was easier than I thought. I am unsure though how all this technology fits into the grade levels I am hoping to teach.  It seems like Glogster, Prezi and even the Project Based Learning seems geared to grades 5th grade up.  I can see using some of these for a presentation for students but I am not sure if I can see it actually being used by the students.  I love the thought of Project Based Learning.  It seems like a huge undertaking but I think that it gives students an amazing way to learn.  I did watch some videos where the students were of lower grades.  It seems that the teacher needs to collaborate with many others to make the learning work.  Just watching some of the videos of the teachers planning this takes immense amount of time.  Add in that teachers are now going to have to make sure that they are meeting the standards.