Week 5 Responses

Response to article from Edutopia Feed

"Teachers: Five Ways to Ease Back into School" By: Elena Aguilar

When I read the title of this article in my news feed my heart started racing and a knot started forming in my stomach.  I figured I better read it and see if any to the tips could help me out!  To be honest the tips annoyed me and I wished I had never opened the article up.  As I type this I am up north sitting outside enjoying every moment of this summer and I could care less to think about curriculum planning and deciding what professional development opportunities I would like to take part in...yuck! 

Response to "7 Things You Should Know About Wikipedia"

I really enjoy reading the series of "7 Things You Need To Know" documents.  I like how the articles are organized and I tend to like the "Why is it significant" and "What are the implications for teaching and learning?" sections.  Both of these sections talked about how we can use Wikipedia in the classroom to help students understand how knowledge is created.  The document suggested having students create their own Wikipedia entries on an assigned topic.  I do think it's important that we teach our students that Wikipedia is only one of many tools that is available to us for research.