renae’s blogs

I have listened to Sarah’s podcast about Education today and tomorrow and she brings up some great points about education today and education in the future that have been mentioned in the article that she has read. I think the point that stood out for me was when she stated that if you are not [...]

I have felt the exact same way that Frances felt when she lost her phone. I too had recently lost my phone ( I have now regained possession of it thank goodness), and felt that the world had suddenly stopped because I was no longer able to access the world wide web… or my emails…. [...]

I agree with Emily’s views on the article about constructionism & instructionism. Emily feels as though teachers should allow students to discover things through interactive learning as opposed to being instructed by the teacher as to what to and how to learn. I personally believe that there is a need for both concepts in a primary [...]

I have just watched a youtube video entitled “Melissa’s World.” This was an inspirational story about a 9 yr old girl named Melissa. Melissa has Cerebral Palsy and is currently experimenting with assistive technologies in order to aid her in her comunication. Melissa is not verbal and therefore relies heavily on this new ‘switch’ technology [...]

I have recently read an article entitled “How to use podcasts at your school.”  This article states many things about the use of podcasts in classrooms, one of which is ‘as long as you have a way to make the recording, and as long as your students have access to the Internet, you can make [...]

After reading sarah’s reaction to Tristan’s post relating to studies into interactive whiteboards I both agree and disagree with Sarah & Tristan. I don’t know much about Interactive Whiteboards as I have never been in a classroom where one has been present but from what I can gather I feel that they are very beneficial [...]

I am writing in relation to Sarah’s post which talks about the different classrooms of the future. I agree with Sarah when she states that some of the ideas behind this classroom are a little strange, especially the ‘green space’ where there are trees and plants inside the classroom. But overall I do also agree [...]

I am writing in reaction to Frances’s post which talks about “phoning a friend in exams”, in other words relates to being able to use your mobile phones in exams in order to help students more thouroughly answer exam type questions. This article which was sourced from the SMH is primarily based around trialing this [...]

I am writing to react to Emily’s post entitled How to bring schools out of the 20th Century. Throughout this post Emily talks about how she believes that there is a greater need for more use of technology within the primary school classroom as students these days are a lot more computer literate and eager to [...]

Below is a digital story that I made with a fellow classmate (Emily). It outlines what we believe makes an effective teacher as well as some of my reasons as to why I wanted to become a teacher. I hope you enjoy it!emily-and-renaes-digital-story