The Partnership for 21st Century Skills

I enjoyed looking through the website about 21st century skills. I liked the tools and resources that it provided to help with the teachings of the skills. I also liked how it provided a list of resources to help with professional development. There was not any information that surprised me or that I disagreed with. I look forward to more information and new articles to read.

Using Blogs in the Classsroom

Blogs can be used for many reasons in a classroom. One way that I would use a blog in my classroom would be to keep parents updated on what is going on in the classroom. I could post different types of study guides, HW helpers, and many other ideas so that parents could see more of what happens in the daily lives of their child.

1st grade
I teach all content areas.

Promeathean Boards

A classroom today looks very different than it did 20 years ago. Classrooms are changing every year to keep up with the changes in technology. The way students learn is changing every year too. A new technology in many classrooms is the Promethean board. It is an interactive learning and teaching tool that was created in early 2000 to give students a more hands-on way to learn. It allows the teachers to teach lessons digitally. The lesson board comes with pre-designed programs to fit the subject being taught and then the teachers have the option to personalize each lesson by adding additional text, sound and movies. The board is controlled by a pen that is touched to the board to make each screen change. Everything that shows on the screen in front of the classroom also appears on the teacher’s desktop computer monitor, so the screen can also be controlled from the teacher’s desk. There is also an option to freeze the whiteboard screen so the teacher and students can be working on different things at the same time.

How do you think this new technology would be effective in a classroom and for students, especially special education students and other students with disabilities?