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==I didn't get to sapend as much time playing as many games as I would have liked to these last two weeks ;however, I did play two. One was We the Jury which I talked about in my educational review report and the CSI game. I am a CSI fanatic, but I had never played one of the games before in my life. While it wasn't as hands on as I would like I felt like this could easily fit into a science or CSI class which they do have at my mentor school. One of the things that i really liked about this game was the fact that it wasn't just alot of text and then you answered questions, but it let me look at photos and different descriptions so that I could make some educated guesses - isn't that part of what science is all about? This game also led itself to be very teacher friendly. If I was teaching a lesson with a objective with this game I could easily do it. I also liked that you could start at begininer if you knew nothing about CSI techniques or go to a more advanced level. If students were ahead in class I could easily point them in the direction of moving ahead to that level instead of staying in the beginner level.==

==1) An example of Just in time presentation activity in class would be to present the steps of a project in class in multiple steps so that when it came time to develop the final product, students would easily be able to do it. One of the examples from my own class has been a Great Depression journal project. Instead of just saying to students write me a bunch of journals, in the classroom, we had students practice using writing skills , such a writing a description or telling me what a person is feeling in a Dorthea Lange picture, with each topic involved in their journal. Once it came time to write the journal the students had all of the information avaliable,as long as they had been doing the work.==

==2) A way that I could teacher a subdomain of a real domain in the classroom would be to have a preview assignment before the begining of a new unit. This would provide students the opportunity to look at what they will be asked to learn about before they actually experience it. To preview students to a new unit, I do alot of activites like picture walks or brainstorming with clips or photos. Another way this could be done is through previewing the language before a unit. This would also prepare students to use the right vocabulary during the unit.==

==3) A technique that I could use to transfer early learning to complex problems would be one of the projects that I have observed in one of my history classes. In the sociology class that I was observing students had been going through a set of notes on how to collect data and what a folklway was. Students had to take what they already knew and they had to develop a strategy for a way to break a folkway and at the same time collect data on people's reactions. This became complex, particularly for the younger students, because they had to look at data and then use math to create some sort of chart or graph along with apowerpoint to share their data in.==

==4) A learning experience where one of my cultural models was challenged was when I see my brother play any of the Medal of Honor games especially the ones about more modern warfare. They were glorify war and are very negative towards the other side. This is something I don't agree with and it really goes against my beliefs, but I could see the other sides perspective as well.==