Sunday, July 10, 2011

Journal #9: “Green Schools Teaching Green” (NETS-T I-V)

Waters, John. "Teaching Green: An Abundance of online tools can help educators inform and instruct students about enviornmental issues." Journal(2011): n. pag. Web. 10 Jul 2011. <file:///C:/Users/Jonathan%20Garcia/Desktop/New%20folder/journal%209.htm>.
John Waters brings out some new interesting aspects in how education also effects students in becoming resourceful to the planet they live in. It is through incorporating technology that students can get a better understand of the importance of incorporating technology into classrooms and learning about the environment. I found this interesting because when I am an English teacher I don’t see this as part of my curriculum. Yet in looking back at the article there are websites that are designed to make them fun and enjoyable and still students continued to learn. Using technology in a variety of classes and a variety of grade levels is significant because we are educating our students using technology curriculum and as well as giving them the knowledge to preserving out planet and learning to become more earth friendly. The laws that were passed to make this happen are the reason technology is now appearing on the internet to bring students to these websites to learn through research, playing games and of pure interest. It really stood out to me when I look at the grade levels technology can influence in a variety of ways.
Q: How can you incorporate websites based on environmental learning into a creative writing class?
A: I think I would ask student to do research on the environment and expect them to establish a sense on nature through producing vivid details of what they have learned and incorporate them into the scenarios of their writing. I feel that this will bring a new sense of realism into their writing.
Q: Is learning about the environment seen as a distraction from the classroom?
A: When the article first began I was asking myself the same question on how or the importance of educating students about their environment should really be dealt with in schools. Yet I have seen through the reading that it can be incorporated into all subject matters even though it isn’t part of the curriculum, and more importantly it is through the internet students can become more interested on their own that they will relate to the research and games.