Blog Post #7

 It was honestly kind of hard to find a school website that has teacher pages on it. My elementary and high schools didn't have them, and I couldn't find any schools in the area with it either. I had to specifically search for schools with teacher pages to find one (https://mhs.floydboe.net/academics/teacher-websites), and it's a high school in Georgia. They included information about who they are, where they're from, and how they can be contacted. At my K-8 school, we used Schoology; this is an app that has class pages where teachers can post announcements, resources, and assignments we were working on. However, these pages can only be accessed by logging in through student or parent accounts.

Being a kindergarten teacher, I don't think I would want to use any apps or websites that my students would need to make an account or work on themselves. However, I could use stuff as a teacher leading the class. When I was in elementary school, my teachers would use GoNoodle. I definitely want to carry this into my teaching because it is a great brain break website where students get active for 2-5 minutes and as they do more brain breaks, their little monster pet levels up. While I would also be inclined to use Kahoot or Quizlet, I don't think it's the best idea for young minds to be introduced to technology that soon. Other than that, I would use things like Google calendar and virtual planners for organization and Canva for assignment and poster designing.

I thought the Critical Evaluation was a fun project. While I don't love group work, I thought it was interesting to see how AI can be used for lesson plans. I think AI did a good job planning the lesson time-wise, but human teacher expertise is definitely still required when it comes to fact checking the information that it provides you with. This project did make me realize that a "good" lesson plan has interactive activities for students and the correct CPALMS standards with information to go along with them.

In the future, I don't see myself using AI to design my own lesson plans. I had to check too much of the information, I feel like it would be easier to find my own facts rather than fact check something else. That being said, I did like the Canvas group tool. I liked that we had full control over how the page looked and what we could do with it. I can't think of a similar tool that allows multiple people to control a page like that. The closest thing I can think of would be Canva, but even that it like a whiteboard or presentation, not a webpage like Canvas.

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