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Wow! What an interesting, intimidating, and informative video! I guess America and the rest of the world has some work to do to keep up with how quickly technology is advancing. As future teachers, it is our duty to make sure that our students are exposed to as much technologically enhanced education as possible. America needs to catch up with the rest of the world and make sure that our future (our students) becomes familiar with other languages and are trained to understand 21st century technology. Students are collaborating all over the world, researching with one another via the internet. Our students should be a part of this! This is, however, kind of scary. What will happen to hands on learning, I wonder? It seems that educational practices may be taking too sharp of a turn towards technology.

ACCESS

ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classroom, Educators, and Students Statewide) is a web site designed to provide new ways for students to have access to high quality education and coursework who may not readily have access to it in Alabama. It does this by giving students the option of taking advanced placement courses and dual enrollment courses online. Some of the web based courses include regular and AP English, regular and AP social studies, science course, foreign languages, electives (computer, technical, psychology, writing, accounting, nutrition...), health, and art. One interesting thing I found about ACCESS is that some courses use IVC (interactive video conference) as a way to teach the course with 21st century-style e-teachers. ACCESS provides typical classroom teachers new innovative way to teach by using this web site with their students as well. This will, as their mission states, "...provide an infrastructure that delivers quality learning opportunities for all citizens."
This may or may not be useful to me as an early childhood special education teacher. For my major, I will instructing special needs children ages 0-4. Typically these children would not be taking the courses such as those provided on ACCESS. However, it is a great site to be aware of, and I will share my knowledge of it with other teachers who may be trying to figure out ways to provide a better education to their students.

ALEX

ALEX (Alabama Learning Exchange) is intended for Alabama teachers, parents, and students as a resource for educational materials and information. As you can see clearly laid out on the homepage of this website, lesson plans, Web links, and interactive activities are provided as a way to share the best of what Alabama teachers have found to be effective in their classrooms. These resources prove to be reliable as well because most are connected to the Alabama Courses of Study by National Board Certified Teachers. Searches can be conducted for almost any subject my it be academic, for the arts, and even physical education. And the best part?....It is free! There are no fees involved and can be accessed by any teacher or student.

This can be very useful to me as a teacher in the future. Sometimes it is hard to figure out the most effective way to teach as a new teacher simply due to lack of experience. ALEX provides the most some of the most effective resources, information, and materials used by teachers who have already found them to work for most students.

Welcome!

Thank you for taking the time to view my blog! I will be posting various objectives I learn in EDM310 throughout the semester. We will be learning so much this semester!