16 Week 16 Reflection December 12

9 Week 9 Reflection October 31

6 Week 6 Reflection October 10

Week Four Reflection Assignment Part 2 September 26

Week Four Reflection Assignment Part 1 September 26

LTEC 6250.030 with Dr. Warren - Reflection 2

Activity 2: Reflection In your first blog post, tell me about your current perception of the education and training system that is most relevant to you. This could be corporate, K-12, higher education, or other. In K-12 Education, there are often trends and pendulum swings in all aspects of education; however, many times the same fervor and excitement that goes into the sale or buy-in portion of the onboarding does not carry over into building a system to carry this new endeavor throughout the school year. I often wonder if the public school system had to be accountable in the same way that a business did about the way they spent their money, would we have put evaluator processes and monitoring processes into all of our new trainings and systems to choose to continue with the process or change the training. Though, I have personally known small business owners that give a way too much product to friends and family, but that is not the norm when running a business. Now this kind of training where someone blows into town and then out of town is great for the employee that knows he/she are not going to implement anything that is being taught to them regardless of what presented research may have shown. Good can come from pendulum swings as and it helps reveal that educators are often willing to try the latest trend to improve their instruction or increase student learning. System planning is very complex. The details and the length needed to properly design a system change is much longer than I imagined. Keeping the end in mind while developing an implementation plan creates a forced schedule to This is so important, but often overlooked during the rollout of new educational ideas. Due to lack of preparedness, great ideas get fervent, enthusiastic pushes at the beginning of the year but by December, the flame has died out because there is no system in place or lead person to rekindle it. This eye-opening process is revolutionary.

LTEC 6040 Reflection: To distance learn or not to distance learn, that is the question.

As 2019 ended, who would have imagined that so many millions of people around the world would have first-hand experience with distance learning just months into 2020; certainly not I. My opinion of distance education has evolved over the years. The first time I learned that distance learning existed was the first semester of my sophomore year of college at Oral Roberts University where they offered (if I recall correctly) two correspondence Masters degrees in theology that were in systematic theology. I actually had a campus job that semester where I had to call prospective students and basically sell them the program. I am not sure anyone ever signed up because of my sales pitch (I surely was not their best salesperson-Ha), but they had very few students in their program where they mailed student writing to the university and graded work back to the student. Even if students stayed on pace with the correspondence track, it took double the time of a student taking courses on campus. At this point in time, my opinion of distance learning was not very high though I did recognize its benefits to those far from the University. Jump ahead almost 15 years where I had acquaintances that homeschooled their children using an online curriculum. This curriculum was both parent guided and student guided with no online teacher to hold students accountable for the quality of the work they produced nor to keep the learning on a rigorous pace. Lastly, as schools shut down abruptly in March 2020, the level of preparedness for teachers and the district was fairly great considering the pandemic situation. My district quickly distributed Chromebooks to students the Monday after spring break and began online classes the next day. My whole fifth grade team worked very hard planning and implementing lessons that were largely asynchronous. When oue district, teachers, and families had time to acclimate and evaluate the online learning programs, many recognized the need to increase rigor, expectations, and require equal instructional minutes for both online and in-person students for the fall of 2020. I hesitate to make a blanket judgement of any educational modality or tool because of all the many factors at play in people’s lives affecting their learning, so I would not like to see any laws limiting access to distance learning as options for students at any level. I do not believe that means I necessarily have a positive view of online/distance learning, but I believe it does offer learning opportunities for people who would otherwise be without.

Yeah! Science TAKS is over!! Only 22 days of school left, so hang in there and finish the year strongly!

TAKS TEST TOMORROW

I know the science TAKS will go well for all of you! Remember to review your science binder, notes, and vocabulary cards. If you have time, go to the school's student software link(on this page) and the online TAKS studyguide (link also on this page). You'll do fabulously!!

Mixtures and Solutions

Mixtures and solutions

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Ecosystems

Ecosystems

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STUDENT SOFTWARE LINK - COMPUTER CENTERS

Here is the link to the student software site you use at school!! If it doesn't work when you click on the link, you can copy and paste it in the address bar.



http://www.dovewhisper.com/computercenter.htm

Objects in the sky

Earth and objects in the sky

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Electrical Energy

5.8 c electrical_energy ppt

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Natural Resources II

Natural resources ii

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Natural Resources

Natural resources

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Weathering and Erosion ppt.

Weathering and erosion[2]

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ONLINE - TAKS Studyguide

Click below to go to the online TAKS studyguide

http://perspective.pearsonaccess.com/perspective/appmanager/tx/family/?_nfpb=true&language_actionOverride=%2Flocal%2Fportlets%2FlanguageSelector%2Fselect&_windowLabel=language&languagelanguageCode=en&_pageLabel=p2_home_page&512Nav=&NodeID=6128

Well, here's the website's second post! I didn't get rid of the tarantula on Friday, but we'll get rid of him Monday after school. Next week we're beginning a narrative essay and studying natural resources in science! It'll be a great week!

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