Learning To Unlearn

     The thought at first, to unlearn to ultimately become a better teacher seems backward but after reading the chapter in order to understand the meaning behind it, it makes complete sense.  Unlearning is the process of leaving behind old ideas or ways of doing something and basically trading in those for new, more efficient ideas or ways of doing things.  In my opinion, I feel that this is going to be a struggle of mine even though I know that it is going to be beneficial to my future students.  

        I feel that there are multiple things that we as future teachers are going to have to unlearn and relearn because times are changing. One of the most important things that I think we must unlearn as a whole generation is the idea of technology in the classroom.  Most kids nowadays depend on technology to much in my opinion and most teachers do not utilize it enough.  There are so many great opportunities that come from technology such as whiteboards.  This is a great way to get ideas for your class through other teachers. We as teachers also must learn to unlearn that we are the teacher we need to be open and able to learn from our students.  We need to teach our students how to communicate with others and also how to relay information to there classmates. I feel that we have to become the student and think back to how we were taught and reflect in our own teaching ways.

My first attempt at Flipped Learning!

Hello Again!
In my Tech for Ed class we were recently introduced to a new form of educating students called, "Flipped Learning". This was my first time hearing about flipped learning and I have to say that I love this approach. I feel that this kind of teaching is better suited for upper elementary grades and may only be 100% successful if all of your students have access to a computer at home which unfortunately is not reality. Although, with that being said this is something I invision to be very beneficial to students because with this model, they get more time where the teacher is helping them one on one with there specific needs. This is something that I know is becoming more and more popular in my area so hopefully when I become a teacher this is something that I can utilize. My flipped lesson is geared toward a second grade class in the subject of math. The video is a lesson on how to use regrouping when adding. My video does cut out in the middle because I messed up :/ but it was my first try so all in all I think that it went well. In the begining coming up with the idea was challenging because we are always taught to make a lesson plan for what you would do in class but I enjoyed the challenge!
For after this lesson, the next day in school, I would have the students bring in their practice problems and according to how they did I would split them into groups by ability and have them work in groups to complete problems on their level. I feel like flipped learning is a great way to build students confidence in the fact that when they come in (as long as they had an assessment at the end of the video) you as the teacher will always be able to group them and help them according to what you know they can do! I feel like flipped learning is most definitely an option for me as a future teacher! Hope you enjoy my video thanks!!