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Answers to Skype Questions

^{Do you think students should text in class?}

^{I absolutely think that students should be allowed to text message in class.  Most students in public schools today have some form or cellular phone, so a very high percentage of students would be extremely familiar with texting.  That being said, I would allow my students to text answers to me online.  They could use their phones to send confidential answers via text message.  Now, I would not allow my students to text their friends to talk about a basketball game or other non-education related subjects, but I would love for my students to be able to text answers and use their phones for school work.}

^{If you could change one thing about blogging, what would it be?}

^{I had never blogged prior to this course, so I was very new to it at the beginning of the class.  Now that I've done it several times, I feel more familiar and confident with how it works.  If there was one thing that I would change about blogging, I would like to see it become more popular.  Many more people would use blogging if it were more like Facebook.  If more of someone’s friends were blogging, then more and more people would be likely to create their own blogs.}  

Creativity in Education

I enjoyed the educational video by Sir Ken Robinson.  His speech was not only funny and entertaining, but also informative and eye-opening.  He said that public schools kill creativity in students by telling them that new methods of doing things are wrong.  Children are born being unafraid of wrongness.  However, He said that when children become frightened of being wrong, they don’t find any new ways to complete tasks.  Therefore, I think that it seems that they are like little robots in a way, which are given an input and produce an output using a given formula rather than actually exploring how to do find an answer creatively.  The killing of creativity in students is a very sad, but true problem that hopefully I can prevent when I become a teacher!  Another good point that Robinson said was that “creation is as important as literacy” and educators should treat it like it is.

According to the reading one interesting way in which creativity can be promoted is by putting students into groups and allowing them to brainstorm.  I think that this would be effective because everyone knows that “two heads are better than one.”

One thing that I wish that my teachers knew about me as a learner is that I find it much, much easier to remember material when assessments are given frequently (as in quizzes after each chapter or two) rather than all at once (as in one comprehensive final exam).  This would probably be true for elementary students as well, which are who I will be teaching. 

My Learning Style

I learned by taking the VARK test that I am a Multimodal Learner. This means that I have multiple learning preferences. The majority of people who have taken the test are also Multimodal Learners.

My strongest preferences were Reading/Writing and Kinesthetic. A few of the methods suggested for taking in information are using lists and handouts. I constantly make lists! The only way that I can remember what I have to do is if I write everything out in list form, therefore, I agree with this completely! I also like to use handouts whenever I’m learning or teaching something new. When studying, reading/writing oriented learners are encouraged to read and reread their notes over and over. I also find this effective.

Kinesthetic learners are encouraged to learn by taking field trips and using hands-on approaches to learning. I always seem to learn better if I see someone demonstrating what to do. Therefore, I think that I do fit into the kinesthetic learning category as well. These learners are encouraged to study by creating real-life examples to help them remember the topic that he or she is studying. I try to do that as much as I can because it really helps me.

By taking the VARK assessment, I learned about a couple of new study techniques that I’ll try to remember next time I’m studying for a test. One example of those techniques is to draw diagrams to help me remember what I’m studying.

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