Delicious! NETs-T: I, III, V

6:03 PM | by Patricia
1. National Archives
The exhibit I looked at was the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. The exhibit was about the earthquake and fire that destroyed the city and the rebirth of the city. The site gave eyewitness accounts of the events before, during, and after the earthquake, along with the rebirth of the city. This site serves as a prime example of what a primary source should be. A primary source is a source that comes from the time period that is being studied, either from eyewitness statements, newspaper articles, photographs, journal entries, and books. The use of primary source material is important to use in the classroom today, and to also show students what primary source material is. Students who understand primary sources, understand where the information comes from and know that it is reliable source. Also as teachers, we should use primary source material in our lesson plans to accompany the material offered in textbooks.

2. National Education Association
The students who experience the achievement gap are racial and ethnic minorities, English language learners, students with disabilities, students from low income families, and boys/girls. The three areas that I believe fit into my teaching style is:
  • Determine the diverse groups served by your school. Consider cultural, linguistic, racial, and ethnic diversity. Find out the degree to which families and students in these groups are accessing available school services.
  • Ensure that your school has a mission statement that commits to cultural competence as an integral component of all its activities. The cultural competence committee should be involved in developing this statement.
  • Build and use a network of "natural helpers" at school and in the community as well as "experts" who have knowledge of the culturally, linguistically, racially, and ethnically diverse groups served by your school.
I picked the first one because it is important to know the not only what the diversity of the school is, but how diverse the school is. This will allow for a better demographic to be built about the school. I picked the second one because it is important for any future school I work at is committed to the education of diversity and informing other staff members of the diverse community the school is made up of. The third one, I believe, is one of the most important ones. Many kids out there are out of touch with their own culture, and if there was someone there, the "natural helpers," many kids would connect with their culture and understand they are not as much as a minority as they think they are.

3. Stop Cyberbullying
Quiz score: 0!!!
Cyberbullying is a serious issue in today's classroom. Students have technology at their fingertips, allowing them access to anything and everything out there that can be found on the Internet. According to the website, cyberbullying is split into four categories: the vengeful angel, the power hungry, revenge of the nerds, mean girls, and the inadvertent cyberbully. The best way to step in when cyberbullying is going on, is as a teacher to be aware of what the physical affects are of bullying. There are certain affects that victims of bullying have, that as a teacher we should be able to recognize and intervene. This intervention can help stop the bullying that is going on.
I also did a presentation in my Educ 350 about general bullying in school, but my partner and I took a look at cyberbullying too. Here are some helpful links about bullying and cyberbullying too:

4. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
This site is amazing! It offers tons of information that can be directly used in the classroom, and covers multiple areas within one subject. The history section has information that spans from the Ancient Egyptians to the Vietnam War, and each site gives tons of information that is important for kids to understand. Under the "Teacher's Helpers" part, she has a link for assessments and rubrics which offers different rubrics to different assignments, report card outlines, and assessments for multimedia projects. These two sections of the site are areas that will greatly help out in the classroom because of the ideas/resources that are offered in each subject and the different examples of assessments and rubrics that can be used on several assignments.

5. Multiple Intelligences
The quiz was not working...fun stuff.

6. Teaching Tolerance
The lesson I chose was "One Survivor Remembers: Antisemitism" for social studies in grades 9-12. The lesson plan's objects says it all for this lesson plan: students will learn what antisemitism is, propaganda and stereotypes, and make connections to current day antisemitism, racism, prejudices, and bigotry. The lesson plan would be best used during the WWII section of the class and the topics of the Holocaust, when the notion of antisemitism is first brought up. Students usually need help to fully understand the idea behind antisemitism, and how something like the Holocaust could happen. This lesson plans gives a detailed outline helping students understand this by explaining the propaganda and stereotypes that were used against the Jewish people of Europe. The lesson also makes the point to have students make connections to today's world in terms of the discrimination against Muslims, Native Americans, African Americans, and Jewish people. This is a huge thing because students will hopefully begin to understand the world that is around them better then they did before.

7. Multicultural Education
  • What percentage of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender high school students report that their teachers “never” or “rarely” respond to homophobic remarks made by other students, according to a national study by GLSEN? Answer: 84.5%
This question shocked me the most! I couldn't believe that a teacher would ignore a homophobic comment made to another student. It just doesn't seem like it is something a teacher should be standing for. I have went to high school with a very open and out there gay student, and although he was forth coming about his sexual orientation, he was teased everyday. Despite his best efforts to keep going to the school, he eventually left the school due to the teasing/harassment. To me, there should have been something done by the administration of the school to stop this from happening, for instance, suspension for x-amount of days, but sadly there wasn't anything done.
  • Based on a 2007 report from the Economic Policy Institute, the annual earnings of the average full-time U.S. worker is roughly equal to: the daily earnings of the average CEO in the U.S.
First though to this: "No wonder we hate the CEO's of certain companies!!" I was also thinking of an idea that the CEO's of companies that have millions if not billions of dollars can do with their money. Why can't they be required to donate their bonuses, raises, etc to those who need it more? There are families that are trying to make ends meet, to get food on the table, and to have clothes for their children while the CEO's live their lavish lifestyles. One has to wonder, if you were a CEO of a multi-million dollar company, would you accept all the bonuses, give yourself a raise, while the people who work for your company get nothing? Or take this money when you know what is going on in the world around you?

8. Netiquette Guidelines
My score: 8/10!!!
Netiquette is important to teach to students so help them be able to navigate the Internet to be able to protect themselves and to know what to do when confronted by certain situations. When students know about Netiquette, then they can be held responsible for their actions while online. Students being taught what is right and wrong on the Internet, they can also be taught about cyberbullying and the consequences due to this. With the two sections being taught to students, then there could potential be a decrease in the misuse of the Internet and cyberbullying. :-)
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