Week 2 Reflection

UEN is a great tool for us to use as we start our teaching careers. It lets us communicate with our students and their parents with ease. I can keep any information the student needs on the website, any resources, and all their assignments. I'm excited to use it. I'm currently using google for most of these things but I'd like to have another system to compare it to.

Learning how to use a new system is great. I plan to explore all the features and figure out exactly what it can help me do! I especially like the poll feature. That will be useful to ask questions on maybe my performance so that I may develop or for pop quiz question after a reading or a lab for my students. Advancing any behind the scenes operations as a teacher will increase my happiness of the job and make this under paid job more practical. Technology will make being a teacher much better!

In the future I will have a website similar to the one I'll be creating on UEN this week. I definitely see the benefit of having this technology for my students. They will be able to soon do everything electronically... well maybe not for math, but other subjects for sure. This will be a great tool for my classroom to help us all communicate better, more clearly, and for everyone to be on the same page.

(after using UEN, I dislike the repetitiveness of this assignment. I'm very confused. In class it was clarified that we just need the Home and About Me page but the assignment says we need 4 others pages. The time commitment for this assignment is WAY too much. UEN also logs me out every hour or so and that's really annoying.)

Movie:

That was stupid. I don't know what that was supposed to show. I'm a math teacher obviously and I don't think that is 'new math.' I don't think teachers are sacrificing right answers for incorrect ones. In longer mathematical problems you can focus more on the process but the calculations are just as important. If you know the process that's something different then knowing how to do math. You've just memorized something but you have to be able to do the actual 'math'. I don't know I didn't like the movie. For my future students I don't think this effects them unless a teacher really is dumb enough to allow students not to get the right answers. You'd just be showing them how to fail and make that a habit to not care. Math doesn't do you any good unless you get things right.