Sunday, October 26, 2014

Blog Post #10

What can we learn from Mrs. Cassidy?

First Graders in Ms. Cassidy's Class (4:56)
Interview with Kathy Cassidy Part 1 (14:37)
Interview with Kathy Cassidy Part 2 (4:55)
Interview with Kathy Cassidy Part 3 (12:46)

I loved the Little Kids...Big Potential video by Kathy Cassidy! The children did exceptionally well speaking about what they do in the classroom and about some of the technology that they use. I also liked how the children explained the importance of always being nice when leaving comments.
Kathy Cassidy makes a lot of good points in the video discussions between her and Dr. Strange. She did not start using technology until about ten years ago and started having a blog five years ago. After Dr. Strange states that some of his students do not see the importance in learning how to use and work with technology because they are going to be elementary teachers and that they will worry about it later down the road, Cassidy makes a lot of good points. She says that technology is not going anywhere and that it will always be around. She says we cannot teach children today in the generation with the ways in past years. She also says that by not taking advantage of some of the tools technology has to offer you are handicapping your students and yourself.
When asked about where she believes people need to start, she says that she does not really use technology in her personal life and that she only recently made a Facebook account. She says people should start where they are interested in.
I really liked how Dr. Strange was able to gather some of his students to partake in this video discussion as well. It was neat to see students like myself discuss technology with Cassidy.
I learned a lot from watching this video discussion and listening to what Kathy Cassidy has to say.

3 comments:

  1. Kala, I enjoyed reading your post but I'm not sure if you stated clearly some of the questions. What were some of the things that you would use that Mrs. Cassidy suggested? And how would using technology or some of her techniques hinder your classroom ore help it?

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  2. Hey Kela! You did a really good job of summarizing the videos and giving the strongest points that Ms. Cassidy made. She did have a lot of ideas and opinions about technology in the classroom. Like Heather mentioned above, don't forget to answer the questions in the instructions to show what you're getting out of the videos. Other than that, this is a good post!

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