Images

Wanting to be history teacher for middle/high school students, using any imagery software would be useful.  Students can look up a picture on the internet, or they can create their own images pertaining to a certain event that they are learning.  Students will be able to see what other students gathered and could comment on the pictures to agree or disagree whether the pictures work well with the specific time period.  They could create their own propaganda posters without using big sheets of paper.

Plagiarism, Direct Instruction

I think we can all agree that plagiarism is wrong.  Students learn from their parents and their teachers.  If they see that their teacher is not using appropriate citation methods, then they are definitely going to copy their teachers example and will most likely be dealing with the consequences later in life.  It is a good idea to teach our students about how to properly cite their sources while they are young, so in college they have the experience and wont get into any trouble with copyright issues or plagiarism.

Mobile Learning

Teachers should embrace mobile learning because in today's generation of students, they learn faster.  Students using mobile learning makes projects get finished at a much greater speed.  An issue would be that students using their mobile devices would use them for their social interactions such as Facebook, Twitter, and text messaging.  Ways to solve these issues is having students download Lanschool onto their mobile devices on the first day of class.  This ways the teacher can see what websites the students are on.  I would use Socrative in my classroom because students would be able to take their tests using a mobile device instead of using the traditional paper and pencil.  Nearpod would be useful for students to get interactive in the classroom.

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Information Literacy

Information literacy is defined by Wikipedia, "to be able to identify, locate, evaluate, and effectively use that information for the issue or problem at hand." We can teach our students to be information literate by teaching them to NOT trust everything we see on the internet.  Instead we can look at several different webpages that could be useful and show them what to look for in a good website.  The students will at first need to locate the AUTHOR of the webpage, and hopefully they will be able to see his/her credentials on the topic that the author is trying give us.  Secondly we can see how old the information is, students don't need to be looking at a webpage with out of date information. Third we need to look at the specific content of the material, we need to see how useful the information is, and making sure how to spot any vague content.  Lastly we can look for any bias that the author might they might have.  Some bias is good, but depends on the research that a student needs.  We really cant prepare students on how to research on the internet, except to warn them that there is bad information on the internet and you cant trust everything we see.

How to use Podcast's in schools

Podcast's can be used in multiple ways for teaching history to middle and high school students.  First of all a teacher could create a podcast of the reading material so students can listen to the teacher read the reading for the class and follow along in the book to retain the information.  Another good strategy for podcast's is that a teacher could create a lecture for their students so they can download the podcast's and they can take the lectures anywhere they want.  Another way a teacher can use podcast's is by having their students create podcast's by having them read the material into their podcast's so their students can listen to themselves reading the information at their own pace.

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