Microsoft learning getaway is a way for students and faculty to collaborate and communicate through technology. The Microsoft Learning Getaway is an online technological system that is organized through the combination of many different Microsoft services. It is a technological tool that allows different schools in the community to communicate over the internet. Teachers among different schools can share instructional strategies that work well in classrooms. It allows schools to assess academic student success and effective instruction by comparing the collection of data obtained from student achievement throughout the school year. This system works as two schools become technology partners and share information between each other throughout the year. With this sort of collaboration, schools and the community can benefit from the outcomes obtained. This system also gives parents the opportunity to view school assessment data online, curriculum and instruction resources, and ways in which parents can become involved with the school.
The Microsoft Learning Getaway system would impact my teaching and my students in a wide variety of ways. For example, with the ability to share instructional strategies with other teachers in different schools, I would have the opportunity to learn what strategies works and what strategies may not work when teaching. It’s the same idea as two heads work better than one, the more the merrier! I would have the chance to work with others who are more experienced than me so that I can benefit and learn from their mistakes and from their successes to incorporate all of that into my own curriculum and philosophy. The Microsoft Learning Getaway system will also allow me to stay more organized and on track with my student assessment data. This can only enhance my students and their learning as my curriculum grows in such a way.
Another new and emerging technology in schools is the idea of Emergency Response Alert and Notification Systems for Schools. With this idea comes the integration of Microsoft’s technology solutions and Dialogic Communications Corporation (DCC). This alert system would enable schools to notify parents/guardians and faculty in times of emergency through the use of voice and text messaging. Parents and faculty would be notified in minutes instead of hours. In such emergency of a natural disaster, an attack, violence, or accident that may happen at schools, the Emergency Response Alert system is a great advance in technology that can benefit the safety of students and faculty greatly.
I believe this technological innovation will impact my teaching in many ways. Especially with the increased violence of on campus attacks, I would feel very much more at ease knowing that if something were to happen on school grounds, I would be notified in just minutes of the incident occurring. As a teacher, I am responsible for my students and I want to make sure they are in a safe place and in safe hands. I would want to be able to do all that I can to keep my students safe and for this reason, I believe this kind of notification system technology would impact and only work to benefit myself and my students. With one less factor to worry about in schools, I would think that more time can be spent worrying about other things such as student achievement and class curriculum.
The last emerging technology I will discuss is about podcasting in education. With podcasts, students can view videos, play with music, and complete homework assignments given by the teacher. This allows students the ability of freedom, independence, and to a certain extent, choice, when completing homework assignments. Because it is very much an interactive technological solution, there will be more of a chance that students will remember the information learned through the podcast assignments. Students will also be more likely to finish the assignments given. There are also different types of podcasts that students can use which are directed towards specific subject areas in school. For example, there are dance education podcasts, English language arts podcasts, science podcasts, and so on. Within each individual podcasts are different varieties of learning activities that students can be assigned to complete.
I feel that podcasts will impact student learning in my future classroom greatly. Because it gives students more variety and opportunity with homework assignments, I feel it will give me the opportunity to broaden the aspect of homework and the type of homework assignments I expect of the students. For example, I may assign an English language arts homework activity center around poetry or Shakespeare. I could give the students an assignment to listen to a certain number of specific poems and then after listening to those poems, to reflect upon their feelings and apply what we’ve learned in class to what they can hear in the poem. If we are learning about a Shakesperean play such as, “Romeo and Juliet,” I could give the students an assignment to listen to some excerpts from Romeo and Juliet and as they are listening, to write down everything they hear that reflects upon what we have learned about Shakesperean writing. They may have to try and translate what the excerpts are really saying in modern day English language.
The Microsoft Learning Getaway system would impact my teaching and my students in a wide variety of ways. For example, with the ability to share instructional strategies with other teachers in different schools, I would have the opportunity to learn what strategies works and what strategies may not work when teaching. It’s the same idea as two heads work better than one, the more the merrier! I would have the chance to work with others who are more experienced than me so that I can benefit and learn from their mistakes and from their successes to incorporate all of that into my own curriculum and philosophy. The Microsoft Learning Getaway system will also allow me to stay more organized and on track with my student assessment data. This can only enhance my students and their learning as my curriculum grows in such a way.
Another new and emerging technology in schools is the idea of Emergency Response Alert and Notification Systems for Schools. With this idea comes the integration of Microsoft’s technology solutions and Dialogic Communications Corporation (DCC). This alert system would enable schools to notify parents/guardians and faculty in times of emergency through the use of voice and text messaging. Parents and faculty would be notified in minutes instead of hours. In such emergency of a natural disaster, an attack, violence, or accident that may happen at schools, the Emergency Response Alert system is a great advance in technology that can benefit the safety of students and faculty greatly.
I believe this technological innovation will impact my teaching in many ways. Especially with the increased violence of on campus attacks, I would feel very much more at ease knowing that if something were to happen on school grounds, I would be notified in just minutes of the incident occurring. As a teacher, I am responsible for my students and I want to make sure they are in a safe place and in safe hands. I would want to be able to do all that I can to keep my students safe and for this reason, I believe this kind of notification system technology would impact and only work to benefit myself and my students. With one less factor to worry about in schools, I would think that more time can be spent worrying about other things such as student achievement and class curriculum.
The last emerging technology I will discuss is about podcasting in education. With podcasts, students can view videos, play with music, and complete homework assignments given by the teacher. This allows students the ability of freedom, independence, and to a certain extent, choice, when completing homework assignments. Because it is very much an interactive technological solution, there will be more of a chance that students will remember the information learned through the podcast assignments. Students will also be more likely to finish the assignments given. There are also different types of podcasts that students can use which are directed towards specific subject areas in school. For example, there are dance education podcasts, English language arts podcasts, science podcasts, and so on. Within each individual podcasts are different varieties of learning activities that students can be assigned to complete.
I feel that podcasts will impact student learning in my future classroom greatly. Because it gives students more variety and opportunity with homework assignments, I feel it will give me the opportunity to broaden the aspect of homework and the type of homework assignments I expect of the students. For example, I may assign an English language arts homework activity center around poetry or Shakespeare. I could give the students an assignment to listen to a certain number of specific poems and then after listening to those poems, to reflect upon their feelings and apply what we’ve learned in class to what they can hear in the poem. If we are learning about a Shakesperean play such as, “Romeo and Juliet,” I could give the students an assignment to listen to some excerpts from Romeo and Juliet and as they are listening, to write down everything they hear that reflects upon what we have learned about Shakesperean writing. They may have to try and translate what the excerpts are really saying in modern day English language.
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