Blog #3

We live in a digital world, from laptops, iPad, and smart phones out students and us are spending more and more time online. Since we can not see how people react we need to be vigilant in conduct ourselves online. You may ask Why? Well just like when you were a student your teacher would teach you not to push other students down at recess, that is the same concept we need to teach about our online use. The words we use are powerful and sometimes can cause people to change or do things they normally wouldn't. 

I feel that you should teach digital citizenship are early as possible. I personally would group it in lessons throughout the year. Lessons you might go over live how to act with classmates (in class, outside of class), and how to treat others are just a few ideas. With the younger grades, those could be actual lessons. in upper grades when talking about US History and how hard it was for some people to treat other correctly you could tie in social media posting and how to react to them in a proper way. At ISTE they have some great suggestion how to teach digital citizenship.Also I got some overview on this topic from www.digitalcitizenship.net, which is a great resouce. 

Blog #2

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I found this page to be potentially helpful. Since I have not been on the uen page much and I have created a ton of lesson plans yet. But some of the things I really liked was Firs and foremost the "Curriculum Resources" Gadget box on the right, where you could make direct links to the uen core standards. I loved this because when I have gone on the core standards page before it seems like you have to scroll forever. But here you click the subject, the grade and it takes you right there. 
The next resource I liked was "Online classroom activities". In the past when I have made lesson plans I have found it hard to make the activities up. So to have a direct link to a library of them is great! The third resource that caught my eye was the "lesson plan creation" The link is down for maintenance is what it said. but to have another resource to help layout lesson plans would be great!

Initial blog

My name is Tyler Mower, I was born and raised in Orem. I really have enjoyed growing up here. I have always gone to UVU. I have always wanted to be a teacher. I currently am a swim coach at the Orem Club. I have three brothers and one sister, and 16 nieces/nephews. I love sports and the outdoors. 

I hope to get out of this class is the ability to be comfortable and confident in the technology. My first and most influential experience with technology was laser disk and PowerPoint in my science classes. When I saw PowerPoints for the first time and had the printouts I was able to go over things and have a better understanding of topics. But I have seen with my brother being a current teacher now that tech has come a long way and can do so much more.I hope I can influence my students in the most effective way so they can remember more. 

Blog #1: Equity and UDL.

1  What does the research say about this?
          UDL has been described as a best practice and a framework to address learning barriers in order to provide challenging, relevant, and accessible access to content for all learners.

      For example of the 8^th graders in Iowa 32%of the students with disabilities passed math vs 83% of their peers without disabilities.

       

2  How can this be effectively integrated into your teaching?

      I feel that is will be a normal part of my teaching. If we were to look at our lesson plans and create PowerPoints with such images or videos with captions. If we were to plan that every Student having a disability we can make PowerPoints that reach all the needs.

3  How will this help your students?

      Especially with kids with learning disability if we were to have captions, videos, colored background or text these things will help in the learning of the students.

4  What are your goals with regard to this topic?

    That when I prep for my lessons I will plan with all the kids needs in mind and that I will have almost if not all the disabilities covered and met for my students.

5  How does this shape your vision for empowered learning for your students?

      When push comes to shove we need to spend that extra min prepping because finding that better image or that better video could make that connection that much better.


Source
https://coe.uni.edu/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/UNI_COE_Thought_Leaders_UDL_Curran_Brennan_Beckman_Kohler_March.2012.pdf