Well this was an interesting experience. I tried a pinterest account and I tell you what it was a lot of fun and a lot of the material on pinterest was interesting to look at. My grandma is a big pinterest person she has over five hundred different boards, and she is always telling me I need a pinterest account so that I can follow her account. She is always pining different things about science on her account.
https://www.pinterest.com/rieleybrotherso/
That is my account on pinterest but I am still brand new so I only have pinned a few different things for teaching about cells. I love teaching about cells that is probably my favorite thing to learn and teach about. I really enjoyed pinterest. The only thing that I really did not like was how I had to search for different things and how some of the searches pulled up totally unrelated information, but that is the same with any type of digital text.
There were lots of things that I want to apply to my discipline I really liked some of the worksheets that I found as well as the bell ringer ideas. I have a little bit of difficult time coming up with stuff on my own so it is really nice to see other people's ideas and then use those ideas to form my own plans. I think that students can use pinterest for research of course they will have to verify but this could help students to find a fun way to do an assignment.
The article that I read was the Castek and Beach article. A few things that I learned are that there are science apps now and through those science apps you can do labs that you otherwise could not do in the classroom because of class sizes. For example it talked about the frog app, and you can look at a frog dissection that is interesting. Also it had multiple ways for me as a teacher to learn how to use a digital text.
This assignment was an amazing opportunity to learn more about digital text that I did not know before.
https://www.pinterest.com/rieleybrotherso/
That is my account on pinterest but I am still brand new so I only have pinned a few different things for teaching about cells. I love teaching about cells that is probably my favorite thing to learn and teach about. I really enjoyed pinterest. The only thing that I really did not like was how I had to search for different things and how some of the searches pulled up totally unrelated information, but that is the same with any type of digital text.
There were lots of things that I want to apply to my discipline I really liked some of the worksheets that I found as well as the bell ringer ideas. I have a little bit of difficult time coming up with stuff on my own so it is really nice to see other people's ideas and then use those ideas to form my own plans. I think that students can use pinterest for research of course they will have to verify but this could help students to find a fun way to do an assignment.
The article that I read was the Castek and Beach article. A few things that I learned are that there are science apps now and through those science apps you can do labs that you otherwise could not do in the classroom because of class sizes. For example it talked about the frog app, and you can look at a frog dissection that is interesting. Also it had multiple ways for me as a teacher to learn how to use a digital text.
This assignment was an amazing opportunity to learn more about digital text that I did not know before.
Hi Rieley,
ReplyDeleteGlad you were able to try a Pinterest account...now you and your grandma can share science pins! I have never looked for cell-teaching ideas on Pinterest, but that's great that you were able to find a bunch of things.
I'm glad you also had new ideas for apps. If I were an independent millionaire, I would buy everybody in our class an iPad, and we could all spend at least one whole night just playing with apps from our content areas, but that's not going to happen. However, you might teach at a school that gives iPads to all students...like Logan High School. And you can share these apps with them.
Thanks for another great posting.