Newsletter Reflection

Tell us the level of students with whom you plan on teaching as well as your content area or the content area you have chosen for the newsletter. Tell us the standard you are working with. Then, describe the benchmark and/or grade level indicators you were working with on the Newsletter assignment.

Most importantly, reflect on how your newsletter activity represents a learner-centered activity where your future students (on their own or with younger children, working with the teacher) would be able to construct meaning regarding the benchmark or grade level indicators by using the technology of word processing.

The level of students that i plan on teaching is Kindergarten. Science is the area that i covered in the newsletter. The standard that i am working with with is doing scientific inquiry and i choose to teach the students how to use one or more of their senses to observe and learn about objects,organisms,and phenomena for a purpose(e.g to record, to classify, compare, or talk about)

The newsletter activity that I did would help the students begin to understand how easy it is to do things on a computer. By having them help me figure out what to put on the newsletter would show me that they were truly learning the things that i was trying to teach over the past couple of weeks. In a way it would be like they were trying to reteach me what they learned. I would be teaching them some things about technology that in the future they would be using as they reached higher grades and had to do more with computers. So in order to do this, I would sit them down in circle as a class and use a prompter to show the computer screen. Then they would help me pick out clip art images to use in order to classify them into different groups using sight as their sense to help them classify the objects.

Wikipedia.

After I read all the research on wikipedia i realized that it was more positive to use then negative. I realized that you may be able to change things but it is very hard to keep the false statements that you put because of all the people that are working to keep wikipedia up-to-date. I would use it now for some stuff but i still dont think i would use it as a source. But I do see wikipedia in a more positive way.