Name three ways to use social network in class? What are some the Challenges? How I would use social network in the in order to enhance the learning for students, I would set a facebook page for the class to in order list upcoming assignments. Many times students may forget an assignment is coming up quickly it would be a reminder. I would use facebook to post youtube videos that maybe relate to the subject that is being discussed in class. I would use the facebook page in order to allow parents to see what being discuss and in order to open dialogue between the parents and myself as the teachers. I would encourage students to use facebook page to have an open dialogue about the class or having trouble with an assignment how to complete the assignment. I would set a twitter page for the class to remind students of certain events that is happening in class or if I going to be absent from class I could tell the students of assignment that is needs to done class in order their will no confusion with the substitute about assignments that is due. Some the problems that a teacher could face in using social network in the classroom, is that the school may block certain social network and that students may not access in the school. One of the biggest challenges that a teacher could face outside of the class is that some students may not have access to a computers or internet. That could put some students at disadvantage that do not access to social network on continuous bases.

In patterning in the classroom now is very important and more important then the past. Students in the past would come to class and listen to the teacher literature and then take a test and see how information they retained from the literature. Now students are no longer just interested in hearing a teacher literature over material, if a teacher is just lecturer then the students are easily bored and lose interested in the classroom. Now students’ wants to know why they are taking this class and what are they supposed to get out the class. Students can easily lose interest in the class and thus the teacher needs to keep the students engaged in the class. How the teachers can keep the students interested and keep the students motivated in the class is by patterning with the students and keep the subjects relevant in today world. Ask the students how do the subject that is being discussed in the class and how can you compare something in today’s world.

In doing Prezi in class I learned a simpler way in doing power point presentation. It is a lot easier to add information and user friendly. In doing power point presentation in the past I found it was difficult to understand how to use power points. In using Prezi, I believe it is very easy to add and subtract things by colleagues or students that could be working on the same project. I think it would great to use in class and for students to use in class that are working on project that could be assignment by the teachers. In using prenzi, I think it would be great to use to in class because with prenzi a teacher add different things on any one slides such as adding a youtube video. I think it enhance the class experience and keep students interest in the class.

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In reading about Patterning in the classroom and the different levels of patterning, I think it very important in today classroom that teachers work with students because students can be disengaged in the classroom. Students in the past did not challenge the curriculum but know students can challenge the curriculum and challenge the teachers. Teachers need to find different way to keep students involved in order to get the student buy in the classroom. Students need to be felt involved in the classroom. I think it is important that the students think at a critical level and not just at a linear level. I really learned about this ideal of patterning in one my classes that I took last semester. I think patterning this way in classroom is gives the students more ability to express their ideals and it allows other students in the classroom to gain a different perspective. In additional it gives me as a teacher a way to get to know the students and find way they think a certain way. It challenges me as teachers to open my mind to different ideals and perspectives in life. In being a future teacher, I have learned there no right or wrong answers but perspective why things happen. It helps develops students to have a more critical way of thinking not just a linear way thinking. I think students will be more engaged in the classroom due to fact I am making them think at a higher level.