Educational Gaming: Virtual Frog Dissection

How does this game support development in the 21st century skills?
I think it this game supports this because it gives the students time to do a virtual dissection, because must class periods are not long enough to do the actual dissection.
http://www.mydoctorgames.com/dissect-a-frog/

I would link this to ISTE standard 2a:

2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS·S.
      a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity
http://www.iste.org/docs/pdfs/nets-t-standards.pdf?sfvrsn=2

A project that teach's this skill would be from this website:
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_now/2012/06/frog_dissection_goes_virtual.html

"The district's Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum/Instruction, Rebecca Fleck, outlined the decision at a recent school board meeting, saying that a virtual dissection is "a good, if not a better, learning experience than hands-on dissection." She argued that errors made by students in real dissections can sometimes ruin the entire experience, and that more high schools and universities across the country are using virtual dissections in their classes."

We would use with future students to support the content area learning of science.

RA #3

Quote:
"Visual literacy is learned "reading" of the images"

Reaction:
My reaction to this is confused. I don't understand how they think you can read an images. You can look at one and write down what you think about it, but you can not "read" a image. Reading takes words and yeah a picture maybe worth a thousand words, but that is people's opinion. Being a photographer, it is hard for people to understand what you are trying to get across in a picture. I would rather read a book than look a pictures and try to understand what point was the photographer wanted us to understand.



Video:

Magazine Cover

Photo Analysis

Photo Analysis 1a.

People	Objects	Activities
Guy on a boat?	Oil Rig	Guarding
Guy with a blue shirt and a guy with a darker green shirt	Tracker Trailer	walking
More guys on a Boat?	Boat	Guarding
President, guy with light green, a worker, other people behind them	People	Walking

Three things I might infer about the photo:
1. He is on his way from the looking at the oil spill
2. He is making plans on how to talk to the press
3. People are talking to him

Questions:
The title and the caption for the picture are the same. What is the President ready to seize claims process for. It isn't his fault with what happened. Why is the White House in the title, they don't have anything to do with it. The picture looks like it was taken Spontaneous.

New Caption:
The new caption I would pick for this is:
The President Leaving the Area of the Oil Spill.
I feel like the new caption does change the veiw.

Photo Analysis 1b.

People	Object	Activities
President	Left ear, vines, books	Staring
President	books	Stairng
President	shirt
President	shirt

Three things I might infer:

1. He doesn't look upset

2. If he was being briefed I don't think that there would be a camera in his face

3. Are the books in the background the same?

Questions:

His facial expression is hard. He looks pretty angry. I feel like he would be more upset because the oil spill kill cute little animals.

Summary:

The picture that would give me more confidence in the presidents leadership abilities is the first one. He looks like he was coming from the site where the oil spill. He looks like he has talked about everything with people he needs too. He had a smile of his face like someone told him a joke. I don’t think that he needs to be serious all the time, he is a person after all. I do not like the hard look that he has on his face in the second one. That picture looks like it was posed. I don't like that.

Media Literacy meets ISTE-NETS

2. Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating 
contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS·S.
a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that
incorporate digital tools and resources to promote
student learning and creativity
b. Develop technology-enriched learning environments
that enable all students to pursue their individual
curiosities and become active participants in setting
their own educational goals, managing their own
learning, and assessing their own progress


3. Model Digital Age Work and Learning
Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional 
in a global and digital society.
a. Demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the
transfer of current knowledge to new technologies
and situations.
c. Communicate relevant information and ideas
effectively to students, parents, and peers using
a variety of digital age media and formats.

Connections

The connections between the Media Literacy and the standards I picked from ISTE-NETS is:

Media Literacy adapts to the relevant learning experiences and that it does use and incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning. Teachers can assign projects to where the student will have to go online, make a video, use music, or power point to create their project. Most students know how to use all of those and have a computer at the house to be able to do that. By having the student do the project using the internet, making a video or music they are learning and having fun with it. The teacher can also use Media Literacy to help students with different learning abilities.

By having the teacher make a power point to help with the lesson the teacher is teaching or if they need to fundraise for either a trip, new uniforms (for a team or the band), or for a teacher meeting, that teacher is showing fluency in the technology systems and are transferring their current knowledge to the new and adapting technology. If they are doing a fundraiser and trying to get the parents involved, when that teacher shows them their use of Media Literacy to help with the presentation they are communicating relevant information and ideas to them. 

Importance

Media Literacy is very important in this technological age because there are so many learning video’s online. The students of today’s age know how to use all the technology and it will help them understand something that maybe a book won’t be to go into that much detail. They can go online and find out more on that subject, which will make them more engaged in the class room. I know that when I become a teacher I plan on using Media Literacy in my classroom.  

Think Aloud meet ISTE-Nets

Design and Develop Digital Age Learning Experiences and Assessments

Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating 
contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS·S.

a. Design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote
student learning and creativity.

b. Develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual
curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own
learning, and assessing their own progress.

c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles,
working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources.

d. Provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content
and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.



Explaination:

I think that the ThinkAloud project will help me integrate technology into my future teaching practices that will align with the ISTE NETS Standards because I can use it to show background information on the composers we are playing in the class. I could use it along with a SMART Board and have the students interacting along with it. I can customize the project to help the students with any of their learning abilities. I can also assign an assignment that goes along with what the PowerPoint is teaching the students. I can also have the music on the screen for them to look at it and it will help them understand what is going on around them.

Think Aloud