Blog Post 6 Pintrest

Pintrest Board:  https://www.pinterest.com/aanchondo69/educational/


This weeks subject on Pintrest was one that I was a little familiar, I have had experience with Pintrest in the past and already had a Pintrest account.  When I started with Pintrest, I really had no idea what it's purpose was, until I started looking into it and getting my hands dirty as they say.  With the readings now, I realize that there is much more to Pintrest than I thought.  I like how the readings call Pintrest the crazy human indexing machine, which allows you to get anything you are interested in or want with a touch of a finger.  I have come up with three ideas for using Pintrest in my 5th and 6th grade Science classrooms, which I feel will be a great benefit for my students and I.  One of them will include having students create a Pintrest account and pin things they like and are interested with, this will allow us to get to know each other a little better.  Students will then be advised to create boards according to the lesson that we are working on at the time, in which they can share and collaborate with each other.  The third idea I have in mind is having my students then share and get ideas on pins with other classes at our school and other schools throughout the country.

One of the blogs that I read in Feedly is called "Teacher's Impact Students' Lives in Immeasurable Ways" from 21st Century Principal blog site, in which I found the blog extremely informative and interesting.  This blog describes how the educational system measures a students success by tests and data that is collected throughout the students scholastic year, but this shouldn't be the only thing that measures students success and the impact that teachers have on students.  Students don't remember a lesson or a certain subject and what they did in class, they remember the teacher that taught the lesson and was teaching hem lessons in life in class as well.  Most of my students enjoy my class, I ask them why and they say because they feel comfortable and really do enjoy the way I teach the lesson.  They have come to get a personal connection to me, they respect and enjoy my company as well as how i communicate he lesson to them.  Another blog that I found interesting was from Richard Byrne edited Science, in this blog he provides links in which I you can get information and ideas about science lessons and research information as well.  As a Science Teacher I found this to be extremely helpful in creating lesson plans and getting valuable information that I can use in class and share with my students as well as other teachers.