down and focus on the task at hand this week.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Progress Report For Final Project
down and focus on the task at hand this week.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
Blog Post #12
We are to create an assignment and do it, in our particular area of study.
I am a Special Education major (secondary education), I want to coach football at
the middle school level. Make no mistake about it football coaches are teachers!
Instead of a classroom the football field is the classroom!
1. Select three NFL coaches and NCAA coaches whom you admire. Place their
pictures in your blog.
2. Tell why these coaches were selected. In other words, what specific
qualities drew you to them. Qualities can overlap and be used more than once.
3. Embed a video clip in your blog of each one that embodies those qualities.
Mike Tomlin
Mike has a cool intenseness about him. I wnat to bring this to my classroom
as well as my team. No moment or nothing seems to big for him, he takes everything
in stride. In the the clip, he ask the question "what are you willing to do?".
That can apply to any and everything we do in life!
Bill Belichick
Bill has made a career out of being consistent and doing what is best for his
team. I would like to take these to qualities and bring it to the classroom
and the football field. There are only two current coaches who have been with their
franchises for over ten years and Bill is the only one with a superbowl title.
In the video Bill's consistency is the theme.
Sean Payton
Sean's willingness to lay it all on the line in the biggest moment to enhance
his team's success is the quality I am taking with me. He was not going to
hold anything back. I want to impart this to my students and players, give it your
all and hold nothing back! In the video, Sean takes a risk that pays off and this
is the insight behind that decision.
Nick Saban
Nick is consistent, very intense, and highly successful, however I want his
ability to communicate with his kids. I think this is an overlooked quality
in education. It is not what we know, but what do the kids know! In the video Nick
talks about star and money, postions in his defense that he assigned
these nicknames. What I take from this is his ability to take a position and
give it a cool name like star, kids want to be the star and now at Alabama they
can play the star position!
Chip Kelly
Chip's offense is FUN. That is what I take from him. The kids want to have fun
and if learning takes place, it is all the better! In the video Chip and Urban
Meyer break down Oregon's high powered offense!
Cool Intensity, consistentcy, making tough decisions, taking risks, communication,
and having fun, these qualities are what I am taking with
me to make a positive influence on kids lives whether it be on the football
field or in the classroom.
I am a Special Education major (secondary education), I want to coach football at
the middle school level. Make no mistake about it football coaches are teachers!
Instead of a classroom the football field is the classroom!
1. Select three NFL coaches and NCAA coaches whom you admire. Place their
pictures in your blog.
2. Tell why these coaches were selected. In other words, what specific
qualities drew you to them. Qualities can overlap and be used more than once.
3. Embed a video clip in your blog of each one that embodies those qualities.
Mike Tomlin
Mike has a cool intenseness about him. I wnat to bring this to my classroom
as well as my team. No moment or nothing seems to big for him, he takes everything
in stride. In the the clip, he ask the question "what are you willing to do?".
That can apply to any and everything we do in life!
Bill Belichick
Bill has made a career out of being consistent and doing what is best for his
team. I would like to take these to qualities and bring it to the classroom
and the football field. There are only two current coaches who have been with their
franchises for over ten years and Bill is the only one with a superbowl title.
In the video Bill's consistency is the theme.
Sean Payton
Sean's willingness to lay it all on the line in the biggest moment to enhance
his team's success is the quality I am taking with me. He was not going to
hold anything back. I want to impart this to my students and players, give it your
all and hold nothing back! In the video, Sean takes a risk that pays off and this
is the insight behind that decision.
Nick Saban
Nick is consistent, very intense, and highly successful, however I want his
ability to communicate with his kids. I think this is an overlooked quality
in education. It is not what we know, but what do the kids know! In the video Nick
talks about star and money, postions in his defense that he assigned
these nicknames. What I take from this is his ability to take a position and
give it a cool name like star, kids want to be the star and now at Alabama they
can play the star position!
Chip Kelly
Chip's offense is FUN. That is what I take from him. The kids want to have fun
and if learning takes place, it is all the better! In the video Chip and Urban
Meyer break down Oregon's high powered offense!
Cool Intensity, consistentcy, making tough decisions, taking risks, communication,
and having fun, these qualities are what I am taking with
me to make a positive influence on kids lives whether it be on the football
field or in the classroom.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Blog Post #11
Ms. Cassidy
Ms. Cassidy uses some very effective techniques, however I cannot help but
wonder how much of this is being retained. As the father of a first grader, I know
first hand the aptitude of a first grader and this seems to advanced to actually
be retained. Ms. Cassidy herself said he students are only blogging one sentence.
Believe me a first grader cannot put a sentence together much less be able to
spell the most of the words in the sentence! I believe making a video is quite
possibly the most effective of her techniques. Making a video would only be
limited the child's vocabulary and not the ability to write effectively.
Making videos would definitely be something I would be interested in doing with
my class. As a Special Education major, I would be challenged as to how I could
make an effective learning experience out of the video. A potential impediments
would be administration, fellow instructors, and student's parents. To get the
buy in from them I would have to show them how effective this would be to the
student's learning experience and also how this would enhance them as students.
Ms. Cassidy uses some very effective techniques, however I cannot help but
wonder how much of this is being retained. As the father of a first grader, I know
first hand the aptitude of a first grader and this seems to advanced to actually
be retained. Ms. Cassidy herself said he students are only blogging one sentence.
Believe me a first grader cannot put a sentence together much less be able to
spell the most of the words in the sentence! I believe making a video is quite
possibly the most effective of her techniques. Making a video would only be
limited the child's vocabulary and not the ability to write effectively.
Making videos would definitely be something I would be interested in doing with
my class. As a Special Education major, I would be challenged as to how I could
make an effective learning experience out of the video. A potential impediments
would be administration, fellow instructors, and student's parents. To get the
buy in from them I would have to show them how effective this would be to the
student's learning experience and also how this would enhance them as students.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Special Assignment
A world where grades will be left behind
This article was written by Mary Beth Marklein, for USA Today Newspaper, about
Sebastian Thrun, a Google vice president and Stanford research professor best
known for his role in building Google's driverless car. In the article Mr.
Thrun talks about his ideas about education. He taught an online class in
January that had over 160,000 students attend, after teaching that class he
felt like he could not go back to teaching his class at Stanford University. He
went on to found an education company named Udacity, where he hopes to develop a
catalog of free online courses taught by star professors from around the world.
The article goes on to state that Mr. Thrun does not believe in grades, in fact,
he calls grades the failure of the education system. The classes would be free
and will have tens of thousands of students.
I whole heartedly disagree with this article! Let me begin with the fallecy of
such endevors would be free! No one is going to volunteer their time to teach
with out being compensated. Mr. Thrun can do it because he is rich! Education
does not need to be revolutionalized, students need to want to learn and
educators need to want to educate! Education is a one size fit all area! That
is what creates competition, without grades, how does one differentiate between
barely passing and exceptional achievement?
This article was written by Mary Beth Marklein, for USA Today Newspaper, about
Sebastian Thrun, a Google vice president and Stanford research professor best
known for his role in building Google's driverless car. In the article Mr.
Thrun talks about his ideas about education. He taught an online class in
January that had over 160,000 students attend, after teaching that class he
felt like he could not go back to teaching his class at Stanford University. He
went on to found an education company named Udacity, where he hopes to develop a
catalog of free online courses taught by star professors from around the world.
The article goes on to state that Mr. Thrun does not believe in grades, in fact,
he calls grades the failure of the education system. The classes would be free
and will have tens of thousands of students.
I whole heartedly disagree with this article! Let me begin with the fallecy of
such endevors would be free! No one is going to volunteer their time to teach
with out being compensated. Mr. Thrun can do it because he is rich! Education
does not need to be revolutionalized, students need to want to learn and
educators need to want to educate! Education is a one size fit all area! That
is what creates competition, without grades, how does one differentiate between
barely passing and exceptional achievement?
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Post #10
John T. Spencer
I do not know how to explain this cartoon. The Artist/ Author says it is him
making fun of the I am a pc I am a Mac commercial. What else is there to
explain?
Why were your kids playing games?
pencil integration
I am at a lost here because the directions do not say what to do other than
identify and create a link to a complete blogpost, and follow the requirements
in writinga quality post.
2. Read Why Were Your Kids Playing Games? You will probably enjoy
all posts on this blog. Look it over. Read at least one other complete post.
Identify it and create a link to it in your blog post. Be sure you are clear
about what Mr. Spencer is saying. Looking at other posts (and other items) on
his Blog will help you understand his approach. Think about the title to his
blog as well. Explore BEFORE you reach your conclusions. Follow the requirements
in Writing A Quality Blog Post.
Don't teach your kids this stuff.
Dr. McLeod's Bio taken from his website
Scott McLeod, J.D., Ph.D., currently is serving as the Director of Innovation
for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency 8 in Iowa. He is on leave from his
position as an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University
of Kentucky. Dr. McLeod also is the Founding Director of the UCEA Center for the
Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE), the nation’s
only academic center dedicated to the technology needs of school administrators,
and was a co-creator of the wildly popular video series, Did You Know? (Shift
Happens). He has received numerous national awards for his technology
leadership work, including recognitions from the cable industry, Phi Delta Kappa,
the National School Boards Association, and the Center for Digital Education.
In Spring 2011 he was a Visiting Canterbury Fellow at the University of
Canterbury in New Zealand. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership
issues at Dangerously Irrelevant and Education Recoded and occasionally at The
Huffington Post. He also just completed his first book, What School Leaders
Need to Know About Digital Technologies and Social Media.
Dr.McLeod makes two central arguments in this post, do not teach your kids
various technology and because he is, his kids will have a "leg up" on your kids.
I find the things listed in his post as do not teach your kids are things
they will discover by playing around on the internet. I hold the whole post
as cynical. The fallacy of technology users are ahead of non users is hog wash!
Being technological literate offers nothing in the way of being ahead of other
students.
Saturday, November 3, 2012
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