reading reflection #7

1. There are several different levels of classroom discussions, such as individual peer-to-peer discussion in which students discuss topics with their peers. There is student to teacher discussions in which the teacher discusses information with students, and there is also teacher to group discussions in which teachers meet with groups about stuff.
2.The questions for checking in with students are designed to measure their current progress with their projects. These questions should be simple because they serve as measuring sticks to their progress. You can also ask them more in depth questions about their project at different points in the project period to see where their project is going in terms of content.
3. The benefits to optimizing technology in the classroom, is that they can get several pieces of data for their projects. It can also serve as a grammar tool to students with the spelling of words. Technology also benefits students in that it makes presenting to their peers easier, as they can do different presentation designs, rather than sticking to a poster-board.
4. The 21st skills that make or break a project is that of technology literacy. Meaning that if you aren't able to work different forms of technology in today's classroom, then you won't be able to find or put information into a presentation. You nee to be able to work technology such as internet search engines as well as PowerPoint.
5. This chapter is important to my project, as my partner and I need to be able to have the 21st century skill of computer literacy to find and put information into our project. We also need to be able to check in with our professor to let her know our progress.