July's World

Snapchat My Students!?      While I was scrolling down the articles regarding social media in the classroom, I stopped when I saw the heading Getting Started with Snapchat in Your Classroom . The reason that I stopped at this article is because I never really thought of using Snapchat with my students. While I realize that social media is important for teachers to have in order to communicate with their students and parents I always thought that Snapchat was not an appropriate tool to use in education. Snapchat is known for being for private conversations and posting/sending selfies.          In this article by John Walter written in 2017 starts by saying Snapchat is the most popular social media for teens which by today's standards wouldn't apply because TikTok has taken over the most popular social media platform. The article goes on to describe five ways and reasons to incorporate Snapchat in the classroom. Snapchat can work as one way communication to remind students of an

  It Was the Best of Times It Was the Worst of Times! Image Source: Giphy.com           When I saw the workload of assignments and due dates I was feeling overwhelmed even before doing the first assignment, even before looking at the first assignment I should say! I thought wow remote learning plus all this work is too much but I did the first assignment and it was not bad at all. It was actually FUN! I had not done a blog in years and talking about my life and my family was actually really exciting. This class was very educational and I really liked that it was us learning and creating content as opposed to just reading about it. I learned so much in such a short amount of time. I didn't even know how to add a hyperlink before this class. As a special education teacher that pushes into classrooms I had not really used technology because I would mostly read books with students and go over comprehension questions and assisted them with worksheets as I was there only for 1 period. Ne

 Who remembers sitting at their desk and remembering every single word their teacher was saying? The answer to this question is more than likely that NOBODY remembers much of what they learned in school while they were at their desks listening to their teacher. The reason for this is that we only learn twenty percent of what we hear. But chances are that you remember a specific thing from school if you were engaged in the lesson. I for once remember when I was in ESL class we were in groups and we had to each come up with a story using our words of the week and act out the story. The reason that I remember words from my ESL class and not much from reading class is because I was Actively Learning. Active Learning is a method of instruction that involves actively engaging students with the course material through discussions, problem solving, case studies, role plays and other methods.  An Example of Active Learning  In this blog active learning is shown by challenging students in grad