Blog Journal 10

    I think that the best way I will personally use data collection tools as a teacher would be to ensure that all students are able to be fully up to par with all of the information that they are being given. While I hope to teach American Government as a class, I think that at times testing and quizzing could put unnecessary pressure on the kids which might affect their grades in a negative way too, and with surveying potentially there could be a bit of a way to ensure they are all caught up without making anxiety occur. With this I would basically try and figure out what fields they struggled with the most, and through this I could try and adjust the class in real time. I think this would be a good tool because not every class is the same, and some classes need help with different areas than others.

    One of the things I found most unique from reviewing other classmates' blogs was that some people are much more into the distance based learning than I could have imagined. I really thought that most people hated it, but seeing Rebecca and Mary's perspectives were quite astounding. I guess I just figured that everyone else hated the nature of online classes and that they were just putting up with it because of COVID but I guess I was wrong. It's nice to see other perspectives in things such as this.

    I think that the technology-related skill that I would like to learn next would be how to create things such as quizzes for instance, due to the fact that this will be something that we are going to be utilizing at all points in our careers. If we can start learning how Canvas functions, since that seems to be the norm now, then we would have a much better chance of succeeding without feeling the immediate drag of a learning curve. If we can learn this, perhaps are there means of helping generate questions? I always worry that my questions would have wrong answers that are too obviously wrong, and wanted to figure out how to encourage critical thinking.