Brown's+Wacky+Wiki

Beliefs Statement I believe that my students are learning in a radically different learning environment than I did in the 80's. As such, I need to respond to my students learning styles through technology in order to enhance engagment and prepare them for the real world. Students need safe and purposeful experiences with a variety of technology mediums and I need to become better versed with technology tools and design learning purposefully to offer transformative education. While I believe there is great value in technology, I also believe that students need instruction on the ethics of social responsibility in their use of technology as well as a balance of in person experiences so we don't lose socialization skills.

The tools that I have aquired in this class have showed me how to use technology to individualize instruction and allow students to collaborate and be creative more than ever before. I'm excited and nervous about the possibilities here, but no that I need to equip my students and respond to the technological changes as timely as they do.

Ecosystems

My artifacts focused on connectedness and empowerment. I want to empower students and families to find their voice in the educational system and build bridges between home and school. These artifacts show how students and parents will both be surveyed for the purpose of learning their story and altering what I do in the classroom to respond to both parents and students. The sock puppets will empower students to overcome a fear of reading in front of others or presenting in front of others by becoming someone else. Furthermore, the opportunities to rerecord would give students an opportunity to improve their reading. Finally, by sharing their recordings we are building a classroom environment of connectedness through laughter and learning. I'm looking forward to how my parents and students receive these new changes.


 * Artifact #1 Edmodo**
 * We created a homework environment survey to inform our norms and get to know our students story. This survey was created as a poll through Edmodo so that we can see our data in graph form.[[image:homework shot.PNG]]**

Artifact 2- Google Parent Survey In order to promote more connectedness, I recreated my paper survey to be electronic through google forms. I usually give this survey to parents at back to school night, but this year I will be giving it the first day of school so that I have time to respond to parents. I also asked a technology question so that I'm more aware of how possible flipping would work in my classroom. Below is a snippet of this parent survey.

Artifact 3 Sock Puppets App- I plan on using the sock puppet app to have students model their fluency while using an electronic device as stated in the Core. I hope that through recording themselves as characters this year that we can get over our shyness and they would be better able to monitor their fluency. I also have a fluency rubric that I create with the students, which could be used as a form of self-assessment and feedback so the student has time to rerecord and make improvements.