Guest Blogger Joli Barker: BrainPOP as a Staple of Effective Content and Technology Integration
January 17, 2013
Joli Barker, 2nd Grade Educator at Earl H. Slaughter Elementary McKinney ISD, McKinney, Texas www.tinyurl.com/xbrox360 Ms. Barker has been teaching for 15 years and has been recognized as a 2011 and 2012 Microsoft Partners in Learning US Forum winner and a 2012 Global Forum Winner. She is a finalist as the TCEA 2013 Classroom Teacher of the Year and nominated for the Kay L. Bitter Award at ISTE 2012 and 2013. She is a Discovery Education Network (DEN) Star Educator and on the DEN Texas Leadership Council and Innovation Team, a GlogsterEDU Ambassador and Reseller (code 5E9515), an ePals Ambassador, and a Smithsonian Classroom Teacher. And of course she is an avid BrainPOP user! Times are changing. It is no longer enough to know content. The days of “reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic” for the sake of passing a test are gone. As educators, it is now our obligation to guide students through problem solving situations that require content knowledge and building, collaboration, and resourcefulness in order to successfully find a solution…if there is a solution at all. As a second grade teacher, I found this transition of pedagogy easier in math and science than I did for language arts. Seven… Read the Rest»
