Digital Blog Post #E - Chapters 4 & 9

In chapter 4 & 9, we went over concepts that opened my eyes and allowed me to see how much technology has evolved. Nowadays, technology is used as a tool that makes the job of the educator much easier and allows him to interact with the students in many different ways. Technology can help create and develop a lesson plan.

Enhancing Lesson Development with Technology
Teachers use technology to facilitate their job when looking and developing lesson plans. As a future teacher I would use technology to help me fulfill my lessons. I am sure it will provide me with examples and different lessons plans previously used before by other teachers. I would always keep in mind that my main goal is to know what to teach, how to teach it, and know what the students are going to learned.

Approaches to Lesson Planning
Lesson planning plays an important role on teachers' every day life. They must organize their goals, methods and procedures to determine their lessons. There are two approaches:

1. Student Learning Objective: It focus on the outcomes. As a teacher, I would make sure my students are active learners in order to meet the goals I will be trying to accomplish. I would adapt my lessons to make it understandable for everyone.
2. Understanding by Design (UBD): "It is a curricular development set forth in a series of books by educators Grant Wiggins and Jay Mc Tighe" (Maloy, et al, 2013, p. 78). As a educator I would work hard trying to make my future students remember the relevant ideas from the subject, to remember it, and to implement it when is necessary.

By ocastillo91

Podcast and Vodcast as Tools for Teaching
Podcast are Vodcast are technologies that allows for teacher and students to record their voices (or use someone else's voice), make it an audio file (with the appropriate audio software), post it (online), and distribute it. These two technologies are very portable and can be use practically anywhere at anytime of the day (Maloy, et al, 2013, p. 234). I can say podcast and vodcast work because I used them. I feel like they allow me to access it on my own times.

In conclusion, this two chapter have me a better understating of how teachers can use technology as a tool to be able to create lessons for our students.

Resources:

1. Castillo, O. (2015) " Blogger 5" Retrieved June 14. Created with http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=11541871&height=267&width=2002015
2. Castillo, O (2015, June 14). "Approaches" Retrieved June 14. Created with http://www.toondoo.com/View.toon?param=9067447
3. Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
4. Orlando.F.Castilo (2015, June 14) "Technology" Retrieved June 14, 2015, from https://magic.piktochart.com/output/6645907-untitled-presentation