From+My+Heart

Dear Dr. Stocker, As a person from this class I learned that there are many ways that you are able to modify learning and teacher. Technology can be a power teaching tool that students may grasp better than other methods. Especially because of the new technology era that all kids now a days are big on it and spend many hours a day using technology. I am glad that i got to learn about wiki and learn about all the tools on it. Even though I am going for the k-12 PE major and i will most likely not use a lot of this stuff, I will now think again and try to incorporate some things in to it. What I learned form being a teacher from writing my unit is that there are going to be many things that always don't work how you want them to, so emphasizing is key in being a teacher. Also knowing a lot about technology is going to be helpful when teaching students and giving many different ways to teach.

Being proud of my entire wiki is something that i am truly proud of. But overall the one assignment that I truly enjoyed was our digital storytelling unit and how we got to tell the story. I loved the creativity we got to come up with in producing this product. Doing something different with technology, would most likely bring a projector in to class and show clips of different things I have done in my wiki that would help jump start the unit I am in and get the kids interested. Like I said before about how I am a physical education teacher and I most likely wont use everything on here in a whole entire school year i will still incorporate and try to enhance the kids technology ability and use more in class. I can incorporate many different and easy techniques the kids will love. Being a teacher to me is always being right and never making mistakes and I know that isn't true. So to me, making a mistake and being wrong sometimes and having the kids realize that I was wrong is something I am concerned about. By overcoming it I will let the kids know that it is okay to be wrong or make a mistake because it will enhance your learning and if you realize that you made a mistake you will learn better. Using technology with makes me excited because the kids will love using technology and having different techniques using technology the students will never be bored and learning and I will never be bored teaching.

Teaching to me has always been a passion, since my mother just retired form teaching after spending 33 years in the business. I have talked to her about teaching and getting insight on it and every time we have had conversations it makes me want to be a teacher more. Helping kids learn and most of all living healthy and active lifestyle is something I strive for. I will be living in the twenty-first century for many reasons. One being that with everything changing including learning and most of technology, I will be adapting to the change and trying to stay on top of the way we can increase learning. I want to make a difference in that I will make our future children smarter and hope to have a president, or a professional athlete in my class so I can say I made a difference in that kids life.

Sincerely Scott Buchanan