After spending time taking a look at education blogs from Google, I found that "Kate's classroom cafe" was stunning of how her creativity was set up on the blog. Kate has been using this blog to share her feelings about organizational tips in her classroom since 2012. She has several of her free and cheap downloadable organization set by "Teachers pay teachers" link in her account.
" Kate's classroom cafe" explains 5 ways to use the classroom window space that she posted in August 2014. I was very interested and impressed me of how easy her tips are. Thus, her tips are innovative because a window space is used to be apart of education in the classroom. For example, she writes Learning Goals, Assignment, and General Announcement on her classroom widow to communicate with her students.she also utilizes Concept Mapping which is used for her science class to display her students' ideas. Moreover, I also found that her blogs also talk about technology in the class. It is posted by the name "I'm NOT going paperless in my classroom. Here's Why..." In this blog, she describes and believes how technology can have negative effect on her students' learning abilities, while some technology is still effective in her classroom. For example, she offered her students a choice of digital project or paper poster-style project. She realized that most of her students asked for the paper project style because students were using so much of day to day screen times and the paper project was more excited and enjoyable. Therefore, she decided to use 30% or less of screen times during her class each week.
In my opinion, I personally prefer to take handwritten note, paper-posting and group project the old fashioned way because it improve my comprehension and cognitive processing of materials. I believe these methods will help students not only remember, but also improve learning. On the other hand, the option of technology methods is increasing and impact students live. I believe students should be giving an opportunity to learn technology in the classroom but also utilize paper project methods as well to provide a versatility style of learning. Not every classes or activity should involve digital screens but students should be given the opportunity to learn these methods effectively.
Kate. (2014, August 16).5 ways to use classroom window space[Blog post]. Retrieved from
Kate. (2018, July 19). I’m not going paperless in my classroom. Here’s why… [Blog post]. Retrieved from
That looks like an interesting blog, and I have not visited it before - thanks for sharing your thoughts about her posts!
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