Module
2 Unit 1 Activity 2: Education in Social Media
USA Organizations
One of the articles I found on this site was called Social Media Made Simple (http://www.nea.org/tools/53459.htm). One aspect of the article that I really
found useful was actually setting ground rules for using mobile apps in the
classroom. Kids tend to be more outspoken or aggressive with their ideas online
as they don’t have to be face-to-face with anyone online. Not only offline, but
also online manners and ground rules should be taught and set by their teacher.
The AFT’s resource on student testing accountability for the No Child Left behind Act
states that if any school is unsuccessful in making an adequate yearly
progress in four years, the district has to take some measures either changing
the curriculum or staff. I agree with this stance as changes need to be made if
there are no signs of improvement but sometimes improvement cannot be measured
by testing.
US Educational Policies
This act protects children with disabilities to have a chance to
receive free public education equally as other children. I believe this is so
important especially living in Korea where in my 10 years as an educator, I
have never had a disabled student because it is stigmatized. Laws are improving
in this area of education. Here is a link that relates to Korea and disabled
students by the NCEE. (http://www.ncee.org/programs-affiliates/center-on-international-education-benchmarking/top-performing-countries/south-korea-overview/south-korea-education-for-all/ )
In this site I have mixed opinions about their stance on high
qualified teachers. It states that all teachers must have passed a licensure
test and have a license to teach in that state. I believe that licenses are
important, and it is useful to upgrade one’s education whenever possible, but
just because one passes an exam or has a license, doesn’t imply they will be a
great teacher. Experience, in my opinion is also truly important and maybe
years of teaching could also meet the criteria of being a qualified teacher.
International Organizations
One of the links I found interesting under their education tab
is that the conferences that they are holding about vocational pedagogy is
being held online now. I never really thought of heading to virtual conferences
just to hear current discussions about education in the 21st century
but I know now that this is a great resource for the future.
Worldwide Movements and Policies:
One interesting article I found here was about out-of-school
children (http://www.globalpartnership.org/focus-areas/out-of-school-children ). Many children around school don’t have
schools in their community and in places where poverty is prevalent, children
seem to enroll and drop out, or not attend school at all. This information
really affects me as the country I come from is very poor. Many children want
to attend but as they are another helping hand in their family, lots of times
they have to be out working to help their families. It also states how instead
of building more schools, or training more teachers won’t help improve this
situation and basically how the school system should be made more solid by
specifically focusing on reaching out-of-school-children.
Useful
links for teachers in Korea
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Kotesol
The Kotesol is an organization
that runs conferences in Korea. A lot of my friends whom have been here for 10+
years are part of this group, giving presentations and sharing their knowledge
with others. You can sign up and go to one of their conferences where you get
to meet other educators, get introduced to new books, listen to different
speakers, etc. I am going to try and get into one of the conferences this year.
Anyone go to one of these? If so, what did you think and was it worth to join?
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Ministry of Education
In the Ministry of Education page, I found an interesting
article about how Koreans are trying to change the education system, so the
instruction is not so teacher centered, and it becomes more of a student
centered instruction (http://english.moe.go.kr/web/1717/site/contents/en/en_0275.jsp;jsessionid=GB19wylhrZ5Zkan9YnaMyVg0tSnNaJvahnXO73thckFYHF5SS1ZBzGoMqSeoXlTa.homepageAP2_servlet_engine2). I
would love to see a change like this in the education system here. I find that
as an educator, half of the time I am trying to convince my kids to ask
questions, and not be so afraid of being wrong. It has been taught that they
shouldn’t question the teacher and that if they don’t think their answer is
correct, that they shouldn’t participate. Though I have high hopes for this to
be noticeable, they started making these changes in 2009 and I still do not see
much shift from teacher centered instruction to student centered instruction in
2014.
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NCEE
This website has some articles
about how the government in Korea is trying to support families from lower
incomes, migrant families (because they are not accepted easily in Korean
society) and children with disabilities when it comes to education. I really
believe things are changing slowly but there is still a lot of stigma attached
to these situations. Does anyone think that this is actually going to help
these families or is it only a “good” concept? This site also has downloadable
acts from the Ministry of Education
here in Korea.
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Asia Society
This site has a lot of different articles in education in
Asia. I have found a lot of well written interesting articles that would’ve
been great for me to read if I were coming to Korea without any previous
knowledge of the education system here. They explain the calendar year, school
system, subjects, people’s view on education, and how there is a high
percentage of college graduates that once they are done with school they come
to a halt in educating not really going on to becoming lifelong learners.http://asiasociety.org/education/learning-world/south-korean-education-reforms
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