Website Evaluation

 1. Who is the source of the information?
The website doesn't say. It tells the people who "work" at the island but doesn't say who is the source of the information.


2. What are you getting?
I think that this island is a scam. It tries to make you seem like they are all for the happiness of your dog. But if you look at the pictures one is a dog being shipped to the island; they are put in a closed wooden box! Thrown to survive by themselves on an island?..and another picture where dogs are "greeting" each other I'm pretty sure when dogs greet one another and are happy to see another dog they don't show their teeth.


3. When was the site created?
The website never said when it was published, but I'm guessing it was in 2003, because that is when the copyright was.


4. Where?
The only address is .com anyone could have created the site from anywhere, they never tell you where they are from or where the island is located.


5. Why are you here?
To give my evaluation on this website. 


6. How can you tell what's what?
It shows labels and links but I think very poor information.


I don't think that is a very valid website. There is so much information not given, it seems a little fishy to  me. From what I saw/read I wouldn't want to send my dog to this island. If they had more information given and who created and where it might pass for a valid website.

Statistical Activity

Questions 4 & 5:

This graph shows all reading levels for grade 11. The scores are pretty low and around the same averages, but the Special Education actually has the highest scores when it comes to their reading. Whereas, most the students range from 25-35%. 

Excel Data..

1.What type of skewness? The skewness of this graph is either positive or negative.

2.Where is the distribution of most concentrated?The way the graph looks it is concentrating on math and the lowest/highest scores received.  

3.How is the data dispersed?  The data is dispersed by the lines continue to increase in the center average  score. The lines can also decrease if the score are lower than average or the previous grade. 

My Voki (:

It wouldn't let me put all of my teaching philosophy so I just added my main points.

Education is the key to life! It can open doors to so many opportunities and help you become a successful person. It is important to teach children the skills they will need for the job force. Due to the fact that we live in a technology based world, we need to teach children how to use technology.  Integrating technology in the classroom will help better prepare students for jobs that lay ahead in the future.  This will allow students to obtain the knowledge and skills they need they need in life. Technology needs to be integrated into the classroom so that students will be equipped for the future jobs that are not even around yet. It is up to us as educators to teach children the things they need to be successful, and it goes beyond the books now, we need to introduce them to a whole new way of learning using technology.

Journal Posting #7

Quote: " Schools in the United States generally have lagged behind (Hobbs & Frost, 2003). U.S. students may learn something about evaluating sources in research paper assignments and learn to recognize propaganda in social studies, but that's often the extent of their media literacy instruction. Even though students are spending more and more time on the Internet and teachers increasingly expect their students to do assignments online, digital media literacy skills are vastly underrepresented in the curriculum for all but the most advanced students (as, indeed, are offline critical-thinking and reading-comprehension skills)."

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I know that our education system is lagging behind other countries, especially in technology and knowing that scares me. What were to happen if another country became so advanced and we’re still stuck back in the “old” technology times?  I really believe that teachers need to understand how much of an impact it plays on our society now and how important it is. Sure, children use internet and all the cool gadgets that are available now but teacher shouldn't assume that students know what they are doing. They need to be taught the right way to use technology and all the amazing things that can be done! We shouldn’t be scared of it, we should embrace it because technology has brought us so far, we don’t want to be left behind. 

This picture shows how technology can be used in the classroom.

Resources:

David, Jane L. "Educational Leadership:Literacy 2.0:Teaching Media Literacy." Membership, Policy, and Professional Development for Educators – ASCD. 2011. Web. 07 Oct. 2011.http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar09/vol66/num06/Teaching-Media-Literacy.aspx.
Picture of students on the computer:
http://tinyurl.com/3un7f36

Magazine cover..

Media Literacy..

Quote:
 "Teaching must capitalize on students' preferred literacy behaviors online. For example, since we know that they are speed-reading and skimming online, that they prefer clicks to scrolling and that they will rarely read below the "fold" (Nielsen, 2002), we can teach quick ways to assess and credibility."


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Reference:

I think that teachers need to focus on teaching students how to “read” media literacy. Because I know that as a college student I fast skim a lot of what I read, in elementary school I was taught to skim through reading and pick out the main points which was before the intense of internet.  Now that we have so much information and different ways to interoperate the information it is important for students to be taught to really “read into” the information given.  While there is nothing wrong with quick reading, the students must know what they grasped from what they saw/read and actually understand it. If teachers teach the Seven Lens ways students would have a much clearer way of understanding media literacy.  

Abilock, D. (2002 April 21) Seven Power Lenses.https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B6DFAmexYq7vMTFmZjZhNWItZWY5Ni00NzdhLWIxYzItMmE4NmI0MGI5NzJl&hl=en

This video talks about how teachers and parents should inform students about media literacy.

Related Resource: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZzRomtKj88