Sylvie's Blog

So I recently joined classroom 2.0 as a way to build my PLN and network myself with others across the country and world! This will help my gather ideas to not only use within the classroom, but also to instill throughout my life to make me a more effective and well-rounded individual. Through this blog, classroom 2.0 and my twitter account I will be able to connect to other people in the education field that will help me make my material more interactive and engaging and thus make for a better experience for my students. If I am about to utilize these tools correctly, my students will grow more as life-long learners and I will be effective in helping prepare them for their future! 

I really liked the Innovation studio! It was amazing to see so many creative things going on/available in one space! Also the flow of the whole area was very open minded,creative, and calming. That big open space that was in process of being completed was actually one of my favorite parts of the whole studio because the open vibe it gave inventiveness and like anything could happen.    I was particularly interested in the pottery wheel area because making ceramics on a wheel has always been something I found to be intriguing and I have wanted to do. The allowance of free expression it offers makes the art of it so complex and intriguing. I truly feel that if I was going to use any area in the studio it would be that one. In addition, seeing the girl working on her ceramic will such focus and intent inspired my inner creative self.    These kind of facilities are amazing and have a lot to offer a community other than just straight tools. It brings people together in...

For my second webinar I again chose to listen to one on Classroom 2.0 LIVE because I found the first one to be so interesting. This time it was from August 2017 and I again pulled two main points I found to be stimulating from it.      The first point I drew from this webinar was how we should encourage students use of social media because it gives them a platform to create and share their own ideas. This will build courage and also leadership skills, in that they are putting their ideas out their and discussing why they deserve to be looked at.      The second point, was how our school system needs to make it a point to teach our students how to use their social media accounts as that platform to how their academic presence and knowledge. This will not only help them at the moment, but students who are leaving school and going into careers knowing those social media skills are getting better jobs and opportunities. As an educational system, our goal is t...

I listened to the November 2017 Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar. In this webinar,I picked out two major points I found to be interesting.    The first one was when they talked about how social media has become such a big part of our world and one of the main ways we interact with the world. In our social media world we tend to follow people, places and topics that only show us one view point to an issue or situation and because of this we are becoming increasingly narrow minded. To avoid this narrow-mindedness, we must open our minds and media accounts and follow and view different kinds of people,places and topics that show us both sides of a situation. This in the end will keep us more informed and open to new ideas.     In addition, they talked about the CRAAP test to see if different sources and reputable and if we can actually depends on them to inform us of different material. We must look and decide if it is Current, Relevant, Accurate, what kind of Authority doe...

For some reason my computer would not take the downloaded version of the QR code and transfer it over to this blog so this is a screenshot of the QR code that was generated when I put in the URL for this blog. 

    The video was pretty cool in that it was interesting to see how math can be used in a non-traditional way and in ways that aren't normally thought about. I never really thought of the many different ways math could be used to include all different kinds of learners. It was also interesting to see how these techniques can be utilized across cultures.      So today in class, we played with different maker activities and it was actually really cool. My group chose to explore Tiny Bites, Virtual Reality, and Google Cardboard. At the Tiny Bites station we were able to (Using their webpage as a guide) make both a radio and timer work. I thought it was really cool how simple it was to get these things functioning with such little amount of tools and connections. I could see this being used and effective when teaching about electricity to a class.     The next station we explored was Virtual Reality in which we utilized both the ocean and mountain view. ...