Educational Gaming: Math Practice Flashcards

The game I chose is called Math practice flash cards. It is just an app that helps you learn basic math skills adding, subtracting, multiplication, and division. In the game you can choose the level of difficulty and it will keep track of your best score. I have this game on my phone now, for my daughter. It is great! It will also help when I become a teacher because it is a fun and simple way to learn simple math skills. I will be addressing the ISTE-NETS because this app is online so they students can use a desktop, laptop, and tablet to access the game. This game coincides with the ISTE-NETS standard number one; Facilitate and inspire student learning and creativity. Many projects could also help teach math skills but the following link, I believe, also fits with the ISTE-NETS standard number one. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCboYUoCZYY&list=PL81BC3780C6D5D1CA . 

Story Bird: The Crazy Tree

http://storybird.com/chapters/the-crazy-tree/

~The Crazy Tree~

I was walking through the woods one day, bored out of my mind. With no friends to come over, I had to find something to do, so I decided to find a tree to climb.

 I found a tree in the distance. It was huge, and had long weird branches.

 I walked what felt like forever, when I finally reached the tree I started to climb. I climbed all the way to the top; the tree must have been like 100 feet tall.

Then, all of a sudden, the tree began to move. The branches were waving around like crazy arms. It seemed to be trying to knock me off, but that’s crazy I thought because trees can’t think.

 The trunk of the tree started moving like rocking back and forth, while the branches were freaking out. It was whomping. I was so scared, I was screaming like a crazy person, holding on for dear life.

I started to slip, I was falling, I fell from the tippity top of the 100 foot tall whomping, angry tree.

On my long way down I landed on a swinging branch and held on to that, once again for dear life.

 The tree whipped the branch I so desperately clanged to back and forth, up and down. Tirelessly the tree was trying to make me fall off to my death.

Then it just stopped, as quickly as it began it was over, or so it seemed. I relaxed, lying almost lifeless on the branch that had saved my life.

But then BAM!!!!

The tree gave one good shake and I was on the ground.

The wind was knocked out of me and I couldn’t breathe. The tree started to move back and forth. At first I just laid there watching in total amazement of what just happened.  This tree just tried to kill me.

My friends were never going to believe me! They would think I wa….. OH NO!!!!

The tree was taunting me? It was teasing me with the back and forth, I think, because it was coming down faster than my dad with a fly swatter. It was going to land right where I was laying.

I didn’t have time to get up and run, so I rolled as fast as I could. I got away just in time the tree was inches from my face as it crashed so hard on the ground it popped me off the ground for a split second.

I got up and ran, I ran so fast and so long. I didn’t stop until I was home. I got home went straight to my room climbed in bed and vowed to never again climb another tree as long as I live.

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Photo Analysis

#1
Photo in the New York Daily News: Tuesday June 15, 2010

People	Objects	Activities
One man in all black with hat	American flag, tower, small piece of ship, looks like a speaker, clip board on railing	The man is looking around with binoculars, the flag is waving,
Two men, one has a white shirt, the other man is in all black with a hat	Another flag (red & white), tower, machinery on top of tower, green triangle on tower, another clip board on railing, white flag with black picture	One man is inside tower looking around with binoculars, the other is looking down below him, white flag is waving the other isn’t
Two men, one with green polo with white writing, slacks, tan hat with sunglasses on top, a watch, and he is smiling. The other man has a blue button up shirt, black pants, he is looking down,	Cement wall, orange raft, crane, ocean,  piece of rig	The men are walking away from the rig
Six men, most dressed business casual, one dressed as a worker. President Obama is smiling, one man is holding a bottle of water	Piece of a cement wall, bottom part of the tower from the rig	All man are walking away from the rig, they seem to have been talking, maybe a few are laughing

#2
Photo in the Washington Post Tuesday June 15, 2010

People	Objects	Activities
President Obama	Plants, something blue	Part of his face, he looks puzzled
President Obama	Books, plants, black table	He is looking down, seems to be worried
President Obama	Plaid shirt piece	His shirt is wrinkled like he is hunched over
President Obama	Plaid shirt piece	His lips are pressed into a hard line like he is thinking or upset

Reflection question (in 100 - 150 words): Which picture gives you more confidence in the presidents leadership abilities? Why?

Honestly, I do not think either of these pictures show that he has the ability to be a good leader. However, he does make a very good model. I believe the first photo was staged and someone attempted to make the President look like he cared. In the picture it appears as though he was laughing, given the state of things one would think that the president of our country would be trying to find a way to help with the crisis, not posing for pictures. In the second picture Obama looks bored and not interested. If I had to guess what was going on behind the scenes I would guess someone was telling him how “he” was going to address the problem. While, I don’t have a political view on many things, I think that these two pictures make him look a little disgraceful. 

Seven Power Lens RA #2

Quote:
“In strict confidence…I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one” - Theodore Roosevelt Response: I chose this quote by Theodore Roosevelt, because it was the only quote that really stayed with me through the entire text. “In strict confidence…I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one” This to me seems absurd, why encourage war? I knew Roosevelt had fought in a previous war, but I did not realize he encouraged it. Honestly, I thought that since he had fought before and saw his friends and fellow soldiers die, he would try to avoid it at any cost. A leader of a country, I think, should try to protect their people, not send them out for slaughter. This quote was the best choice for me because it has opened up my eyes to a person I thought was admirable.
  Related Article:
It is important for readers to know how to tell if the news is being bias to his topic. But how? This article will help students or anyone who needs help, to understand how to tell if the news is indeed bias or legit. According to the text, students need to be able to tell the difference between biased information and not biased. Students need to understand that some stuff they see on the internet are just ads.
  Resources:
Abilock, D. (2003). A seven power lens on 21st-century literacy. Retrieved from http://www.infotoday.com/mmschools Stray, Jonathan. "How do you tell when the news is biased? It depends on how you see yourself." Neiman Journalism Lab. (2012): n. page. Web. 2 Mar. 2014. . (Stray )