One thing I believe I learned this week was that there are WAY more resources out there than any of us could ever have dreamed of. Education is the perfect field for collaboration, because we are all here to help children learn. By collaborating we can share our ideas and resources to help someone else better differentiate their instruction. This becomes even truer when we are speaking about technology because now half the time technology either facilitates the collaboration or the learning. Today our students are digital natives so by teaching them through technology we may be able to reach them faster. This brings me to what I believe would be a good addition to our Sqworl. I think that we should add TeacherTube. This is a great resource for teachers to use to find educational and appropriate videos to show to their students. This semester a tool that I would hopefully like to integrate into my teachings is the virtual field trips. I have created a lesson plan using one of these sites before and I think that they are a wonderful tool to get to share with our students. This is especially true for the special education students that I will be teaching someday. Most of these children will have a hard time traveling to these places, so if I can virtually take them there it would be a treat!
I agree, Kirsten! There are SO many resources available to us in Education!! I really like your idea of a virtual field trip. I had the same idea. It can be hard to take students with disabilities on a field trip so this is a great way to bring the trip to them!
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