1.) After reading chapter 14 and pondering the question that was posed to us this week, I can see that some of the ideas, concepts and principles from HPI could be applied in education. I know that as the public and government is calling for school reform, we should maybe use the concepts from HPI to help create quality learning for our students. Many teachers administered the MEAP over the past two weeks and wonder how our students have performed on these state tests. We also have had many things such as NCLB act and a resent movie release “Waiting for Superman,” that suggest our schools need to change so that our students perform better. As I looked this week at the two figures in the book on HPT models, it got me thinking that maybe we need to go through these processes as we look at fixing the education system. These processes have been developed over time and have worked in the business sector and may just work in the education field. As a school district or even as a building we need to identify our weaknesses and strengths and from there work on analyzing the cause for those weaknesses. Once we analyze the causes for our weaknesses, we need to work at implementing interventions or strategies to improve. I know we currently work on this in my district through committees called SIP (School Improvement Plan). The state mandates that each school in Michigan has a SIP. These are goals and things that you are going to work on to help you meet or maintain your AYP(annual yearly progress). These plans may include the use of technology, but don’t have to. We do use a technology in my school district called “READ 180” by Scholastic as an intervention to help students who are reading below grade level. This is one of those implementations that we use in our SIP. I really could identify with figure 14.2 on page 141, on how it is a continuous cycle. My lesson plans are the same way and so is our SIP. Our goals change, our students needs change, and the way our students learn change and therefore so do our lessons and school improvement plans. As a teacher, I have to adapt to our clients (students). Maybe, someone in this class can develop an HPI model for education and make millions.
2.) I listened to several podcasts, but I also created my own. One of the ones I listened to was about how technology was linking parents to schools. They talked about parents been able to link to their students grades, blogs and class websites. This was in a school in South Carolina. Here is the link for that podcast: Technology links parents
I also created my own podcast about what we are currently working on in the computer lit class that I teach. Here’s the link for that pod cast: >My first podcast
3.) I think that podcasts could add a lot of value to education. You can follow trends that are happening in education and receive information on various topics. You can have students create pod casts about what they learned and check for understanding. You can also share events with students that are to far away to have a whole class travel to in the allotted time of the school days. One example is cultural traditions from around the world, that could be experienced by students in a world geography or world history class through a podcast(audio) or a vodcast (video). This for many students is more authentic experience than just reading about the subject matter in a book. The more involved and authentic the experience is, the better students grasp the knowledge we want the to learn. You can also use podcast to inform parents about what their child is learning in school. This allows parents to interact more with their children in regards to what they are learning in school. That way parents won’t just get the typical one word responses about what’s going on at school. I am going to try and start doing podcasts for my classes. Thanks for encouraging to use and explore podcasts.
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