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**"3.1 Monitoring Understanding"**
**How do you monitor students' understanding in your classroom?** ==== ﻿Although I do not currently have my own classroom, I have observed many strategies that teachers use in their classrooms to assure that students are understanding the content of the class. I think a good teacher uses many of these strategies without too much effort. They are as follows: ====

- Review concepts as needed.
**How might that practice change as you implement more technology?** ==== ﻿I think that many of these practices will be the same, but the delivery will be different. Homework could be emailed, students can share work and questions can be asked privately. Teachers will also be able to give feedback more quickly. ====

"3.2 Before, During and After Reading"
====**__Summary__**: This article gives teachers strategies to use that will ensure that most students will understand what they read. It stresses the importance of planning at least one activity before, during, and after you ask students to read. It forces you to think about the purpose of the lesson, what you want a student to be able to do or understand at the end of the lesson. It gave a list of questions to ask ourselves that will help us choose the appropriate activities.==== ====Before giving a reading assignment students should have explicit goals to guide their reading and have a plan of attack. Asking students to read a section in a text book can be overwhelming and they are often unable to identify what is relevant on their own.====

During reading they should employ active reading strategies such as note-taking, making connections, etc.
====After reading, students can go back and see if they had predicted something correctly, retell or summarize, write, and/or do further research on a topic. The most important, I think, is discussing what they have read.==== ====**__What I do__:** Again, I do not have my own class and go into math classes where there is not a lot of reading. When students are asked to take notes from the text book, they are often lost. I did find this year that the math students used the second column of their notebooks as a reminder column and it was mandatory to put at least one reminder in every day. This was a very useful strategy for the students and they came to appreciate it too.====

I look forward to using it with students in a variety of ways, not only as a pre-reading activity.
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What observations and predictions about your article can you make based on this Wordle?
==== ﻿If I looked at the wordle and not the title of the article I may predict differently. But, given the title and the size of the words, facebook, people, users, site, want, like, much time, friends, popular, etc. I would predict that the article is about the popularity of facebook. I think it might be about how many people use facebook, how popular it is with such a wide age-range of people, and maybe other social networking sites. ====

What connections to your background knowledge can you make?
==== ﻿I can relate to the popularity of face book! My kids spend a lot of time on facebook, as do I. Many of my friends also use facebook. The students also use facebook frequently. It seems that it has become the norm. I worry that it is replacing talking and giving kids the courage or freedom to say things they might otherwise keep to themselves. ====

"3.4 Annotated Article - During Reading Strategy"
==== Comments: ﻿I think that my initial thoughts on the article based on the wordle were fairly accurate. There was a huge piece of information missing. The focus of the article was the amount of people who are no longer using facebook. You would not get that from looking at the wordle alone. I hope that the article is reporting accurately and people are using it less and less. ==== ==== Thoughts: ﻿ This was my first attempt at annotating a text on the computer. I have to say that I do not enjoy reading on the computer. I prefer a hard copy of reading material and a highlighter or pen to mark it up. I guess that would be because that is what I am used to, but I wonder if some students would also prefer paper and pencil? I do see the advantages of using the computer...the access to material, the organizational benefit of having things available at all times, being able to read what we write, the neatness of the text, etc. I look forward to getting used to it and changing the way I am used to doing things. ====

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1. **Facebook** - A social networking site used by almost 700 million people.
====2. **Trend** - a trend can be a fad or what is most popular in a given time. Using facebook seems to be the current trend, but the article is questioning whether or not the trend is changing and people are choosing not to use it as much or at all.==== ====3. **Updates** - On facebook, people post updates at frequently as they like. Some people rarely post a status update and others post several times a day. It seems, according to the article (and personal experience) that people are getting tired of reading them and really don't care about the things people are writing.====