Day 4-Exit Slip

     In class today, the first group led their Rethinking Education discussion for chapter two. I really liked how the group used quotes to highlight the chapter; The use of quotes also let us reflect on the chapter, without actually reteaching the chapter.The group had a really good website for everyone to look at, it was www.brainpop.com. I think that if your school would pay for the membership, this website would be really cool to use with your teaching. I thought that the debrief of the discussion was a really effective way to help all of us become better teachers. I liked the idea of using a positive column and a delta column (change). I think that instead of listing things that people do wrong, listing things that people can change and do better in the future is more constructive. I also thought that the website SMART Exchange was a really cool resource to keep in my delicious account for when I am teaching. I really liked the section that lets you look at lessons that incorporate the Wisconsin standards, called standards-correlated lessons. I hope to get a chance sometime this weekend to really look at this website in greater depth. Something that really got me thinking today, was something that Dr. Boyer mentioned; He said that education is the only field in which we still consider whether or not we should be using technology. I think that this is really interesting. I think that we need to encourage the use of technology in the field of education, so that our teaching methods will be more beneficial for our students' learning.