I've worked with simulator for Air Traffic Control and when the US Army 1st started implementing Simulators into learning command and control and combat skills. I played around with some of the Battlefield Simulators that were just maps with symbols you could move around representing combat units. Each team (TOC) was located in separate rooms in a building; these TOC's would use radios that communicated individual computer operators that would move the units during a battlefield simulation.
From there I moved onto Air Traffic Control where we started with Magnets on a Chalkboard and eventually moved to ATC Simulators . I use various tools to train young soldiers how to be an Army Air Traffic Controller. I would like to eventually use the skills I have learned to help teach students skills like History, Mathematics, Reading, Writing thru simulated game play. Why should learning be boring? I can put a simple game in my children's hands like Civilization and they learn economics, map reading, and history. Why don't we use game play like it was intended to be used the way Lions teach their young to hunt?
Creating this Blog was easy except I had to sign-up for a Gmail account. I primarily use Microsoft and had a little problem with copy and paste but eventually figured it out. MS and Yahoo really needs to step things up.
Butch:
ReplyDeleteWhat are your goals for the EDU271 course? Based on the Technology Skills Survey and the modules in the course, what do you want to accomplish? Specifically, what do you want to learn? How? Why? Make sure that your goals are written so that you can measure whether they were met at the end of the course. Having your end goals in mind will help you develop an action plan for meeting those goals.
In a nutshell I want to learn to train the inner teacher in all my students. I want them to teach themselves with the tools I've given them. I want this course to teach me how to use technology to teach them. To make them independent learners and thinkers for the good of society and themselves.
ReplyDeleteSpecifically to build a Website for Self Learners to use to access knowledge, memorization, understanding, and a multiple range of subjects. More Specifically Homeschooling Curriculum by Age.
Plan-
1) Learn to use technology(web-building, blogs, forums, video, pictures, accessing factual information)
2) Build the Web Site
3) Import what I have learned and how others can use it to learn
4) Impliment and test it on my children and other homeschooler.
5) Upgrade and keep it updated