Kathryn Kidd Teaching

             I remember in 4th grade band we had a year-long competition called Recorder Karate. We had a book with recorder songs in it, and every time we proved we could play the song on the recorder, we would get a "karate belt" to tie to our recorder. This is a very popular method to teaching recorder in grade school, and it was one of my favorite parts of elementary music.                In EdTech Lab, I was put into a group of three and tasked with making a game concept that could be used in music education. I drew inspiration from my cooperating teacher at McKinley Middle School, Mrs. Phelan. She has an activity called "Mount Scalemore" where students work through their lesson books and have the option to put their character on a drawing of a mountain to track their progress.                Our group designed a very similar activity called "Mount ...

 A poster I creating based on an Educational Technology Lab lesson:

           After watching this video by John Spencer overviewing the SAMR model, my understanding is that the SAMR model is a four level process that results in making technology a part of the learning process. The four levels are as follows:      S - Substitution      A - Augmentation      M - Modification      R - Redefinition               Substitution and augmentation are focused on enhancement. Substitution is a direct replacement of old technology with new technology. This is when a student writes a paper on their computer rather than with paper and pencil. Augmentation is a direct replacement of old technology and new technology, but something is elevated about the experience. The example that John Spencer gives is when students use Google Docs to give peer feedback on a paper.                 Mod...

          I took the online course "Is it legit? Evaluating news sources". In this course, I was given examples of good sources and bad sources and asked to choose whether it was good or bad, as well as what qualities supported my belief. Then there were video explanations of steps to take to make sure a source is reliable or "legit". Basically, the course instructed me to do a web search on the source of information, look for the source's code of ethics, check for transparency, look for an author/byline, examine how they correct their mistakes, assess what other content they put out, look for spelling/grammar errors, and see if other places posting the same content. The basics of fact checking.          One term I had never heard before in this article was "pink slime sources". According to the course, a pink slime source is a source made to look like an unbiased local news center but their content is controlled by a political part...