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My first annotated article is on how students should be given choices in how the want to learn. As we all know some students learn better through written assignments, while other students learn better visually, or through hands on experiences. A big part of the article was making learning stations in the classroom. What are learning stations you may be asking your self. Learning stations are stations where the students are expected to learn about a certain subject, but instead of forcing the child to follow one style of learning, you have several available so that the students can choose from a free write, or a drawing exercise. the big point on of this style is to insure that the students are learning in a way that they enjoy, and that the students will learn to truly enjoy education. As a teacher in this new style you will have a much different role than you are used to. you will be expected to allow the students to have more freedom and to be more of a facilitator than a figure just handing down knowledge. You will want to and out a scaffold of what you expect the students to learn but other than that you pretty much allow the students free range, unless they need to ask you a question, or you need to intervene for some reason.
 * Part A. 3 articles that are related to writing**

the paper went over how you could set up a project about Jerusalem, or to be more specific, a way to build a model of Jerusalem. First the teacher would hand out a packet that outlined the project and what you expected the students to learn. you would then go over the direction, and finally you would allow the students to got o work gathering the information that the students needed using the strategies that worked best for them. In the end the student would be expected to put together a presentation on what Jerusalem was like back in its day. Over all the point of this article was to show people that if you allow students to learn the way that they want to learn, and if they are still productive, you should allow the students to keep learning that way.

Ediger, Marlow. "Learning Stations in the Social Studies." College Student Journal 1 Mar. 2011: 7. Print.

The basis of this article was to let teachers know that there are several ways that you can help your students become better writers and have fun doing it. One example the article brought up was a children’s book. If you have students make a quick book, and it comes out with the correct information you then know that the students have grasped the situation. For this example, the type of book should be around a fifth or fourth grade level and the student’s only use to material available at the school. The next example for an interesting way to get your students to write is a poetry assignment. This kind of assignment allows the students to play with words and have fun, while giving you a amount of work t kids should do so that they don’t get carried away with their freedom. The two types of poems they suggest are acrostic and haiku. Acrostics are cool because you take a name of a person from the time you are studying or a place or even an event, and then have the students write a poem using each letter of the name as the start of a stanza. As far as the haiku, this is a much freer form of poetry. The students will be given a certain amount of words, and then with those words they have to get across the point of whatever they were expected to write about. As you can see these writing techniques are challenging as well as entertaining. The article goes on to speak about several different kinds of writing that are equally as interesting, while ensuring that your students get in the writing that will make you assessments easier and their lives more enriched. If you take a look at the article you will see that this is a excellent source of material to help you students, and to make assessment much more enjoyable tan just reading a hundred essays. With these tools you can allow you classroom to become much more exciting as well as expanding you student’s horizons.

Boyer, Tara. "Writing to Learn in Social Studies." //The Social Studies// 97.4 (2006): 158-60. //Jstore//. Web. 1 Dec. 2012.

This article is all about writing needs to be stressed in the Social Studies classroom. After all what is history if not written records. The article stresses that students must be able to write, because it is through writing that we can build all our others social skills, and it is through writing that we are able to live our lives easier. The article then list all the ways that writing can be taught, whether it be grammar, or punctuation, or formal and informal writing. The article is trying to get teachers to understand that they don’t have to focus on just on area of writing, and yet they don’t have to focus on all areas either. They just have to pick a few that they like and help students work on those. The article then talks about experience charts. This is when you take new students and introduce them to different idea that they have not seen before. As you discuss it with them you take their ideas and the knowledge they have gathered and create a chart that shows the students how they have gathered information, and learned through speaking. Then the article talks about outlines and how introducing students to these can help the students keep their ideas straight as well as helping to see the connections between different facts that they may not have seen otherwise. The article goes over many other useful writing skills that you can introduce to students that provide them with new ideas and ways to tackle age old problems with writing, or staying engaged. All these tools would be helpful for almost any teacher, regardless of the class that they teach. The articles ends by telling the reader that although we want our students to be good writers it doesn’t actually start with the students it starts with the teacher. The teachers must know what they are teaching, teaching the right material and the right grade level, and must know how to effectively teach their students so that they can succeed, if the teacher cannot do this than all these wonderful writing tools would have been wasted.

Ediger, Marlow. "Writing, the Pupil, and the Social Studies." //College Student Journal// 1.24 (2000): 59-63. //Jstore//. Web. 12 Dec. 2012.

This is an article about the students in school using technology, and more specifically phones and iPods. The article wanted to point out that it is always good for teachers to integrate new technology into the classroom. It is believed that these ideas would make us better suited for the expanding world. The article then talks about the fact that iPods and such make is so that students can be more mobile with their learning. There is also the fact that your students could have the entire book on their i pad or their kindle. Another way that this technology helps students is by giving them a glossary and a dictionary right in their hands. Also students would be able to eliminate the strain of carrying lots of book around and being burdened with them. Then the article discusses how people in the nation are able to receive assignments anywhere because it can be sent right to their i Phones’ and iPod’s, as well as helping people to collaborate online and you don’t even have to be in the classroom to do it. Also, teachers can collaborate with parents or hold conferences. They no longer have to wait until the parent teacher meeting to talk about the students’ progress. Another thing that students can do with their I things is to keep tracking of their day with a journal, or a daily planner. With their schedule right at their fingertips they have their whole day planned out. You can also get apps for any number of things that have to do with your given subject. These apps can be taken with the students anywhere and it is almost as if the students can just look at what they might want to learn at any time. Overall, this article was basically telling how students in school have so many things that they can used right at their fingertips, and we need to start taking advantage of it. With all the things that I things can be used for, if teachers know where to look, can make students and our education system better and more effective than it has ever been before. We must embrace technology and use it for good.
 * Part B. An article about technology**

Pilgrim, Jodi, Christie Bledsoe, and Susan Rielly. "New Technologies in the Classroom." //Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin// 78.4 (2012): 16. //Jstore//. Web. 1 Dec. 2012.

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