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| Khan Academy front page |
When thinking about khanacademy.org, I think of it as a second teacher. It is a wonderful resource for everyone because of its ease of access and resources.
How did you find/create/use this resource? It was given to my classmate and I during our high school math classes. It was for the students who did not catch all of the information, or they needed another perspective on how to do something.
What prompted you to find/create/use this resource? What prompted me was the fact that I was not doing so hot in math classes. I needed to put extra effort into those studies or else I would have failed. Khan Academy gave me another perspective on the concepts.
What did you learn from this resource? I learned that schools do not teach everything in a way that everyone gets. Sometimes, a student needs to be taught in ways that are not within the teaching guides that teachers get.
How will you benefit from this resource in your future teaching? I would offer it to my students, giving it to them as another perspective on the lessons that I teach them. I would rather have a student understand the concept from another source than to say "I failed the student because he wasn't understanding me."
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| My Group (Me, Dan, and Scott all the way over) |
At the start of the semester, I was uncertain about this rag tag group of guys. I have trouble in groups a lot of the time, because I enjoy having all of the responsibility on my shoulders. If I do something wrong on a personal assignment, then it is all on me, but if I am in a group, then my mistake hurts everyone. At the end of this semester, I have become more open to groups because of the benefits that I saw within our group.
How did you find/create/use this resource? I saw that Dan wasn't following anybody, just standing there, and asked "Hey, you want be a group?" He said yeah, and then we saw Scott standing by himself and we asked him as well.
What prompted you to find/create/use this resource? Our professor told us to group up.
What did you learn from this resource? I learned that having a group makes an assignment much easier. It allows each person to take chunks of the assignment, and in turn makes it a smaller challenge. Also, if someone cannot do their part of the job at the specific time, because life happens, the other group members can come in and help them out.
How will you benefit from this resource in your future teaching? In both my life as a student now, and as a teacher, I will be more into groups than I was before. I will not come into groups as a sort of hostage, having to be in one because someone told me, but because I realize the benefits of being in one.
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