Week 12

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Reflection: This week in class we learned about two new tools, Kidspiration and Inspiration. Kidspiration will help me teach my students because it has many fun tools that students can use to create documents, complete assignments, or just play games. Kidspiration has many different activities including some in math, science, geography, history, and writing. I would use some of these assignments to give my students another fun way to complete an assignment. To teach them about different ways to brainstorm for a paper I would show them how to use the spiderweb or mind map, they can add pictures, change colors, type, size and arrangement. This will help students be excited about a paper they are writing or for research. There are many other tools including storyboarding that will help students get excited about writing. Another activity that I really liked was the history ones, when I was in elementary school history never really got me excited. But the tools that Kidspiration has will definitely get kids excited about the past and finding out more about it. There was a variety of assignments from filling in a timeline, to filling in a worksheet about different presidents, students can do a puzzle of the states, or acessorize people for different outings and occasions. The only thing that I don't really like about this program is that it doesn't correct the assignments with right/wrong answers. I also don't like how you can't submit it for a grade, instead they have to print it out... If students want this program at home then they have to purchase it. Kidspiration is a very useful tool that helps students learn about different subjects and lets them integrate what they have learned with what they already know. This program boosts confidence and opens students to a wide variety of innovative activities.