Ok, well Jessica and I met up on Thursday (our other group member...we couldn't find you!!) and I think we made a pretty good amount of progress on our unit plan. Since our content area is math, we thought the main questions most middle-high schoolers ask are, "Why do I need to know this?" and, "How am I going to use this in 'real life'?" We thought that to answer these questions, we should focus our lesson on real-world applications and life skills involving math principles/knowledge. We developed main chapters or lessons that we wanted to cover, including things like banking, housing, and computing expenses. We then developed a unit project that meshes all of these lessons together. The main idea of the project is to imagine they just graduated from college, and are starting a new job. You will also (probably) be renting/buying some kind of housing, making car payments, paying for food each month, etc. The students will need to figure out for a year, how much will be spent in all of these areas for each month, and then figure out on their salary, how their expenses will work out for the whole year. They will do this on excel.
Now, for my blog post this week. technology has influenced my reading and writing. First of all, with the privilege of using the internet, millions of articles are available for me to read at the touch of a button. By being able to read these articles, I think I have shaped the way I write my own essays. I am able to see a huge variety of writing styles and ideas using the internet, and without technology, I would only have those which were presented to me in school, or that I searched on my own in the library.
Also, since all of these articles are available to me on the internet, I am able to search for answers to any personal questions almost instantaneously. For example, if I am reading a book, and they mention a particular vocabulary word in the book, or reference to another book or movie that I have not heard of, all I have to do is go online and search that word or name in Google, and am instantly able to view the definition or information about that name or word (Wow, that was a really long sentence!!). This definitely influences my reading because now I am able to completely understand what I am reading while reading it. If I have any kind of question, and no one is around to ask it to, I can find out for myself.
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I feel the same way about answering my own questions quickly by having access to the internet. I find myself researching more on my own because I can just sit and look something up on the internet rather than go to a library, looking for books.
The internet has had a huge impact on my writing. When I was only able to research from books it made it a lot harder to see different view points. It has also made me a better researcher. I have to be more aware of my sources and do more background information than before.
Technology changed everything for me when it comes to reading and writing. The best thing about technology is the spell checker in all word processing programs. This almost evens the playing field for students with disabilities. Spell check gives me the opportunity to correct words as I’m writing that I would normally miss. In regards to reading, Ctrl F is the best thing since sliced bread. Ctrl F is a short cut to find words in a document. I use this function to find imports ideas and words in a document that would normally take me hours to read. Thanks Bill Gates.
totally feel ya, and even going up and beyond being able to look up words, i find myself reading so much of the headings and things on websites, updated news on the cali wildfires, or whatever. so because of the internet, i am reading more than if i did not have internet. and a big problem for me with computers, is microsoft word's auto correction of mis spelled word thing. i type moderately fast, but i have always sucked at spelling things, and there are a large handful of words that i type in ms word and i always, always spell it wrong, in word or on paper, but word auto corrects it for me to the right spelling, so i never learn how to spell it right. alas, there are words that i now know how to spell thanks to ms word, like the word 'surprise' i always thought it was 'suprise' cause when i say it, i dont really pronounce the 'r' so i guess having computers can be both good and evil.
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