Sharing Internet Safety with a Parent

For this assignment I talked with my mom about her knowledge of internet safety and what she still didn't know. My mom is around middle age. I shared with her the benefits of using the interent and also about ways to help keep children safe when they are using the internet. I shared the article I read from the New Era called Mixed Signals: Hows your media diet-healthful or harmful?. It had a lot of great advice from Church Leaders about what we need to be careful with when using media and why. She really liked this because it was from General Authorities. Before when I was mentioning things she could do when the grandkids are over on the internet she said they knew what they should and shouldn't look at and she didn't need to do things like set up blockers or put the computer in the living room instead of in one of the bedrooms. After reading this article she was more convinced that doing these prevetive things was important. I think the entire thing turned out to be valuable for her as well as me. I learned more about internet safety and her and I even did some further research to discover more ways protect your computer from getting viruses and getting spam email.

Ideas from Class Presetations

Two ideas I learned on how to integrate technology into the classroom is first using a smart board where you put a story on it. You can then do a shared reading with the story where all students will have access to the information. Also with the smart board you can highlight important words like words students are working on that week. The other technology integration I got was having students use clickers to assess how they are doing on an assignment or to pre assess what they all know and be able to make graphs of what people vote on. Then you can discuss problems with the class that some are having problems on.