Blog Post #4 - February 6th, 2022

 

    I'll be honest - I was surprised just how much 8th graders are expected to know, technology wise.  Recollecting, I also don't believe I've ever had a teacher teach me how to do anything tech related, we were just expected to know how to do it or get our parents to help us. In terms of the precise standards, I feel like it's fairly accurate, though I will say I'm not sure how well 8th graders would be able to properly "mind-map", regardless of their understanding of the tech behind that. I do believe I could properly teach any of these tech concepts; the concepts are fairly straightforward. 

    One of the standards that I found that I saw implemented in my own high school was the music standard, "Record your way to better sight reading." To be frank - my orchestra was terrible at sight reading, so, since it's an important skill for a musician to have, and because it was on our MPAs, we often practiced it. Our director would record us while we sight read, then we would listen back to it and identify mistakes before trying it again. I honestly think that recording and publishing rehearsal audio is one of the best ways to improve musically and is something every arts teacher should know how to do.


    In terms of internet searching strategies, the one that was the best to learn for me was reverse image searching. This is something that I've heard of but never really looked into, so it was nice to learn that. The rest of the searching strategies were fairly rudimentary things that were not very new to me. I would be surprised if anyone has made it to college without having used most of these at least once, they're fairly necessary to research properly. 

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