Blog Post #3 How Can You Provide Meaningful Feedback to Your Peers

After I watch the video What is Peer Editing, I learned plenty informations about peer editing. What is peer? Peer is someone at your own age. What is editing? Editing means making suggestions, comments, compliments and changes to writing. Peer editing is working with someone at your age to help improve, revise and edit his or her writing.

There are three steps to peer editing:

1. Compliments

The first rule for peer editing is stay positive ,you're helping someone improved his or her writing. The second rule is tell the writer what you think about his or her writing.

2. Suggestions

Suggestions is contributing the author some specific ideas to help his or her writing better such as word choice, using details, organization, sentences and topic.

3. Corrections

Corrections means checking paper for spelling, grammar, missing punctuation and incomplete or run-on sentences.

There are ten peer editing mistakes I learned after I watched the humorous video. First of all, I learn that the first rule for peer editing is compliment, not to point out every errors. Do not be too picky or too loud. If you do not understand anything, you can talk to your peer, and do not interrupt others people around you. You should stay on the topic and be specific on your suggestions. Remember, you cannot be mean or rude with your peer's writing, always say something positive.

Blog Post #2, What Will Teaching in the 21 Century be like ?

Mr.Dancealot's video.

1.The central message of Mr. Dancealot's video is teachers need to teach and let the students see what they doing while they teaching the lesson. Teachers must let students ask question if students do not understand anything. In the video, Mr. Dancealot was showed the power point and danced behind the table, his students cannot see what he doing. When the student stand up and practice for the dance movement, Mr.Dancealot did not allow them to do that. That action is completely wrong for teacher to be in the classroom.

2.On the final test day, Mr.Dancealot told everyone gets a partner and dances while he has his camcorder on to recording his students' dance test.Nobody knows how to dance because Mr.Dancealot did not let his students practice anything.

3. I agree with this conclusion because the way Mr.Dancealot teach is wrong, students did not learn anything, the class is bring and he did not create any activity for student to participate. Because Mr.Dancealot did not let his student see how he dance and did not let his student practice, on the test day, nobody knows how to dance and get confuse .


Teaching in the 21st Century

Teaching In the 21st Century is completely changing the way of teaching. The world is continue changing with better technology everyday .Teaching in the 21st Century according to Roberts Kevin means to use laptops and iPads for research and study instead of used pencil and paper like they used to. The question was post on the video is "What does Creation mean today?" As said by Roberts, creation means blogging, podcasting, animating, planning ,recording, designing and programing. I believe the teachers need to educated about varies of technology to teach the students to handle these creation such as validate information, synthesize information, leverage information, communicate information, collaborate information and problem solving.

In the Roberts's video, it gave examples tools for the students to study such as Facebook,youtube, google, blogs and tweeter. The students can find information on anything , anywhere at anytime by using these tools. There are others teaching skill like paraphrasing, attributing, subscribing, editing, searching, networking, experimenting. If Roberts is correct about teaching in 21st Century, it will affects to all educators. All teachers need to learn about latest technology knowledge to use for teaching. Teachers should change the way they been teaching and use varies tools to guide and teach their students different to learn. As a teacher in the future, I must engage with students to help them to used technology for study in correctly way. Moreover, teachers to must create activities along with the lesson, so the students may have long term and meaningful results.It will be responsibility for all educators to teach the student how to communicate properly by being reliable.



The Networked Student

It is wonderful to know that the networked student learn and do everything without the textbook and teacher. Networked student learn through web based instead of lecture based. Moreover, the networked student is a model for construction of personal learning environment. It is opportunity to customize the teaching environment for individual learners.

Why does the networked student even need a teacher ?If networked student does not need teacher, all educators are become obsolete. Obviously, it is impossible. The teachers are still have important role for all networked students because they need someone to guide and show them how to access the network and find out all limitless information. Networked student can do anything, but when they have troubles and issues, they need someone to help them fix and solve the problems. The teacher have great knowledge to provide information for students to communicate properly. Furthermore, teachers construct the students consider useful information and recognize right and wrong information. Although the student no longer use pencil and paper, the educators alway have important role in education.



Harness Your Students' Digital Smarts

In this video, Vicki Davis guide her students how to use Wiki Teen, so the students in her classroom can post their assignments and connect with others students around the world through blogging. Wiki Teen is a global collaborative project which allow students can communicate and learn different things with diverse student =s around the world. Technology is play important role in the classroom because when teach expand students' vocabulary, they can used computer to find out what the new words meaning without asking the teacher.Computer is advantage tools for teacher's classroom in the future. With this technology, I think the future of education will make our students successful in their career.



Flipping a classroom

Flipping a classroom is new to me as future teacher. I think this approach will be useful to me as a teacher because it helps the students prepared the lesson the night before class start, so they can get an idea what they will learn at school tomorrow. This approach also helps students write down questions and information for the discussion in class. Flipping a classroom program takes our students to the next level of learning. It also help students create and having fun with their learning with technology. I think the flipping a classroom is better for teachers and students. It saves for teachers because their students already prepared for the lesson at home. In class, teachers answer all questions student asking instead of standing in front of class to lecture the lesson like they used to do. With this great and useful program. I think students will have more experiences and having while learning.


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C4T Summary posts and comments, Project #4

The first post I read on Mr.David's blog is " Teachers are made, not born". In the post, Mr.David said,"teaching are learned activity" such as they used flawed model for understanding teaching. The teachers using the flawed model often like blaming for students for not knowing thing.

When teachers start teaching, it take ten years for them to begin to plateau in terms of their expertise. Most of educators working to improving their practice and getting feedback for their works. The best feedbacks the teachers receive are effectiveness of their work and how impact it has on students learning in their classroom. If teachers want to prove education, they need to plan schools so teachers are giving more time to collaborate and plan their work together.

Comment: Yes, I completely agree with you that teacher are made, not born. We have to learn and training to be a good teacher. Nobody perfect, teachers are learning and practicing while teaching. Teachers can learn through their mistakes and feebacks. I have same thoughts as you that if you want to improve education, we need to plan , create activity, work with the plan and build up experiences through effectiveness.

" Seven questions from my son" is the title of the post.

Here are seven questions my son asked today. Who invented buildings?

Why don't we slip on salt?

When you hold your eyes closed does more water get on the eyeballs than just blinking?

Why do hummingbirds move so fast?

Why are butterflies so pretty?

How did we get the name "people"?

Why do bees hum?

Comment: I really like seven questions from your son, Mr.David. When I was a kid, I never asked anybody questiones like that. Your child is intelligent. He wants to know how everything happened and why it happened that way. From those questions, I think your child is like and interesting in science. Asking question is a good way for kids to learn and the hints for parents to know what their kids interesting in. From that, parents can easily understand and support for their child to learn what they like.

Blog Assignment 1

EDM310 is a course for all student to learn and communicate with others student around the world through computer technology and internet. Before attend to this course, we have to know the basic computer use skill, so we can use technology tools on computer. In this course, we learn how to use blogger such as how to post , comment in other people post and share everything with others students.

EDM310 is study about blogger, in other hand, my computer class in high school was study about microsoft, powerpoint, excel, etc. In EDM310, we can communicate with others student through blogger, and in high school, we cannot communicate or share anything with others students. In EDM310, every student needs to be independent learner, must submits their work on time. In high school, everyone can work together and turn in work late and still get full credit for doing it.

EDM310 course needs student's attention at least nine hours a week, I work part time, so I affair I am not be able to do that. However, to get an A in this course, I must manage my time appropriately to finish my work on time.

The best way for me to address the difficult in EDM310 course is practice and practice. No body can do better at the first time. If we do not know how to do such thing, the best way is to learn and practice still you get better at it.

Practice Post

My name is Anh Nguyen, but everyone calls me Annie. I live in the Bayou La Batre, Alabama. It is a small town, but I love Bayou; it peaceful. I came to United States 7 years ago, and now I am a U.S citizen after I passed the citizen test.I had hard time to learn English and adapt to new environment, I have to start everything over again.I went to Alma Bryant high school and attended at Bishop State Community College. My major is elementary education because I love working with children. All of my friends are attended at USA, and they say it is a excellent school for everybody, that why I transferred to USA and I love it.

This is my second semester at USA, I learned many things and got experiences for myself. My family has six members, I have two sisters and one younger brother with beloved parent. Both of my sisters are got married and had kids. My family lives in Vietnam, and I live In the United States with my uncle and aunt. My uncle and aunt treated me as their daughter. I love them.

Become a teacher is my dream when I was younger, and now I am getting my dream come true. For my wonderful future, I here at South to learn and training myself to become a good teacher later.



I love to study math, that is my favorite subject in school. Because my English is not that perfect; therefore I have trouble with reading. I wish I can study and getting better at English skill.

I love beauty such as nails, hair, make up etc. I love to watch hair,make up tutorial, but I do not wear make up at all. I am bilingual person for Vietnamese and English. Vietnamese is my first language, and English is my second language that why I am still learning to getting better at it. I hope we will have fun and learn many thing in this class.