Reading Reflection 6

Discuss how technology tools can encourage students to be reflective and evaluate their own strengths. 
How students to explore the world of technology is a great way to keep them current and involved how to communicate and share with others all around the world the things that they know or they can use technology as a tool to further educate them on materials their teachers are instructing them about. Students will be about track there experiences and later look back on those moments and learned from them. Others students will be able to see their classmate's thoughts and hopefully learned from them as well.

• Students can use technology as a way to share there thoughts and feelings that they may be learning in the classroom. For example having a classroom blog to post all of the new information they found out on the Internet or what they learned in the books provided in class.
• Student will have the opportunity to share personal things about about themselves for others to see. This is a great way  for students to get to know one another.
• Using websites such as Boomerang and Survey-Monkey are great tools that allows students to reflect on their strengths and how to evaluate their weaknesses to become better lifetime learners. 

Describe several ways in which you can get students’ minds ready for a project.
It is essential for students to prepare effectively for starting, creating and executing a project. Students must understand that a project take many hours of planning and preparation to ensure that it will be successful for all of those involved. Like more people its is difficult to want to learn about something that they don;t find interesting or want to put in a lot of time into something that they have no particular ambition to gathering material to create a project worth presenting to others. It is the teacher's responsibility to create topic or find a way to make all topics fun and interesting enough for students to want to learn about and create project about. The more exciting the topics are the better the projects the students are creating will be. Teachers should always strive for students to explore and think about what they can share about their topic in their future presentations. Students should always be collaborating with peers to come up with effective ideas for their projects throughout the school week. It''s important to present students with multiple forms of media to help students create ideas about their topics. 



Discuss the elements of teaching fundamentals first
Teachers should set the project up independent inquiry. It's important for student to express what they know and don't know about the topic they are learning about for their project. For example, before doing new research have the student jot down some information they learn prior to a new day of gathering research material. Have the student share to allow them to presents their thoughts to fellow classmates. Students will then have the opportunity sharing knowledge that may be helpful for others in the classroom. 

Describe the important steps in preparing students for using technology in project.

1. find a technology place for students- students should be free to work with technology with the classroom within a given set time.
2. tap student expertise- ask students questions about topics they feel comfortable discussing. 
3. introduce project management tools- Teachers will be able see what each student is doing on each piece of technology and also using some logging data sheet to ensure that students are staying on task while using technology. 
4. demonstrate- show students how to use specific tool that you are okay with suing and learning about in the classroom. 
5. rely on your technology specialist- If you have access to a specialist bring he or she in to show the kids the correct way to use a certain type of technology that you want them to learn about but you may not be specialized in. 

Discuss ways to promote inquiry and deep learning.

Its is the teachers job to guide students through the learning process. Students are expect to do must of the brainstorming to promote critical thinking and learning, teachers should be there to support students opinions and push them to try to solve the questions or find the answers to their questions. Teachers should challenge students to want to learn more about their new interests, guide imaginations and use question starters to get the mind flowing with ideas.

Discuss ways Chapter 6 connects to group topic
Chapter 6 connects to my groups classroom kitchen because technology is used in multiple parts of the project. For example, we use technology to communicate the grand opening of the classroom kitchen by posting events on social media and in school newsletter. Technology is also use when  making international connections with our virtual  pen pals from Brazil who are also making a classroom kitchen.