Inspiration

Inspiration would be a really way to make a food web, a diagram about the functions of a cell, an evolutionary tree, or a way to diagram population size challenges. When I try to relate inspiration to my content is when I realize that inspiration would be really useful for science.

The food web idea I got was from this: http://www.inspiration.com/lessonplans/inspiration#science-lesson-plans

The original idea was to make a food web using inspiration, which I think would be a great idea because it is easy to keep it neat and organized. Food webs are useful to look at the transfer of energy between organisms in an ecosystem. If I had this technology, I would use it in my classroom. However, this use of this technology is only a substitution on the SAMR scale because it is replacing doing this on pen and paper.

The second idea that I like would be using Inspiration to make an evolutionary tree. This was an original idea that was inspired by the idea from the link above. Evolutionary trees are useful to show common ancestors of the species we have today, they are even helpful for looking at our evolutionary history.With the arrange button on inspiration, it is easy to make it look like an evolutionary tree branching from a single origin.If I had this technology, I would use it in my classroom. Again, use of this technology is only a substitution on the SAMR scale because it is only replacing pen and paper.

Chapter 2: Respect, Liking, Trust, and Fairness

"QUESTIONS WE WISH A TEACHER WOULD ASK:

Would you like extra credit?
Will you be able to do homework over the weekend?
How would you like to make up your homework/projects?
How are you feeling - do you want to do your work right now, or for homework?
Do you need a ride to and from school?
Do you have lunch money?
What could I be doing so you guys learn better?"

This jumped out at me because during my reading of this, besides the ride to school and the lunch money questions, are questions that I wish my teachers would have asked me. I never got asked any of those things when I was in school, and I wish that I would have because sometimes it was hard for me to reach out and ask the teachers for those things myself. Also, there were times when I felt very brain fried or my brain felt overloaded, or I physically or mentally didn't feel okay, so I would rather have put my work down and came back to it later when I was at home in my own space.

Chapter 1: Knowing Students Well

"Ask students about their schedules.... Here is one such list from Porsche, an Oakland student:
6:30 AM Wake up
7:00 AM Wash up and get dressed
8:00 AM Walk my sisters(ages 6 and 7) to school
8:25 AM-3:25PM Go to school
3:25-3:30 PM Catch the bus to Practice
4:00 - 6:00 PM Badminton Practice
6:00 - 7:30 PM Go to Merritt College to run on the track for the school team
7:30 - 8:00 PM Catch the bus home
8:00 - 8:30 PM Do the chores, clean the kitchen, help my little brother and two sisters do their homework
8:30 - 9:30 PM Do my homework
9:30 - 10:45 PM Watch TV
10:45 - 11:59 PM Talk on the telephone
12:00 AM - 6:30 AM Take my medicine and go to sleep." - page 12

This part of the chapter jumped out at me because I have had a very busy schedule since I could remember. I have also had to take care of ill members of my family when I came home from school, and I had a lot of responsibilities besides schoolwork. I felt like my teachers didn't understand or didn't care that I was very busy, and they didn't understand that I had other classes besides theirs, so they gave me a lot of schoolwork. I still feel like that sometimes, even in college.