Week 2: 3 Blogs Review

Nowadays, it is essential to get to know educational tec tools and use them in class. Pupils need more variety of teaching methods in order to keep them interested and intrigued. I have been teaching a classroom for about a year, and I’ve found that not only that using tech is more fun for students it is also more educational. Recent studies have shown that students remember the material better by teaching students through playful and experiential learning.

Although the tech world is familiar to me, and I often use it in class, I was surprised to learn from reading the posts how much the tech world is vast and contains many tech tools that help make learning more enjoyable.

 

 

A brief review of the blogs I’ve read.

 

The first blog called “Teacher tech” and the post called Find your google sites

The post recommends using Google Sites to create new websites

for several reasons:

1. All the website data is stored on google drive.

2. You can search for information on your site by clicking on the tiny arrow in the search box and choosing sites.

3. Using Google Sites is an extraordinarily intuitive and easy tool to use. 

 

I genuinely believe that When an opportunity presents itself, I will use it in class.

 

 

The second blog called “class tech,” and the post called Kahoot: From taking quizzes to transforming your classroom 

I know most of us familiar with this tool, but the post talks about a point I didn’t take into consideration.

Mickey McFetridge talks about the massive difference between letting the student prepare the quiz and answering the questions.

He rightly argues that while the quiz solver only practices memory, those who prepare the quiz practice their analytic and evaluation capabilities in addition to memory practice and even present pictures related to the question.

 

To this day, I have not allowed students to make quizzes by themselves.

Today I’ll start doing that.

 

The third blog called “teach thought” and the post called 4 Common Ways Students Avoid Plagiarism Detection 

Yuliya Gorenko discusses how students avoid computer test plagiarism detection:

 

1. Letter Substitution- Using letter duplicates from other languages. For illustration, the student replaces the letters with the same letters from another language, for example, “c.” This way, they can trick a primitive plagiarism checker. 

2. Inserting White Text- The student added more letters to the word in white, and thus it is not possible to check if the word was copied from across the web.

3. Format Modification - The student submits the work in a format that the teacher cannot run an anti-copy software program.

 

I fundamentally believe that our days, with all the loopholes that pupils could find on the internet, helping them “cheat the system”, we need to rethink things and start building trust with our pupils. Not rushing things up obviously, or acting naïve, but taking it step by step. Building firm trust foundations, only then I deem it would be better.