Blog Journal #4

 The Florida Computer Science Standard I chose was Standard 1: Communication and collaboration. The benchmark code is SC.K2.CS-CC. 1.2. The goal for this standard is for students to understand how to communicate with teachers and their peers through applications such as email or text messages. I feel like I can implement this standard based on what I already know. I find it very simple to send one of my professors an email to communicate with them and I frequently text my friends as well which is why I feel confident in my abilities.

When I went to the CPALMS website, I chose the grade level kinder. From here, I went to the English Language Arts and chose the benchmark ELA.K.S.1.2. In this benchmark, there were several lesson plans about using stories to show students how to learn the separate parts of a story/book such as the illustrator, author, beginning, middle, and end. I think I could use these resources as a guide when creating my own activity for my students. For example, I could take the short story “The Bad Egg” and use it to teach my students the separate components of a book and teach them about the chronological order of the story.

I believe it’s important to know how to browse the web as an educator because there are vast resources which a teacher can use and implement into their classroom. For example, a teacher can use a website for educators to get an idea of a future lesson plan or use the help of a website to aid their students who need extra help. Out of all the internet searching skills we were introduced; I think the one I will use more frequently is being specific with what I search for. I understand that when Google interprets a word, it can see it as two completely different things. Due to this, I will be more particular with what I’m searching for. An internet skill I use sometimes is reverse image search. When I don’t know where a picture is from or what it is, I go to reverse image search and upload the photo. From there, it shows me where it is originally from if it can find it online!