EDCI 5065 Week 2 HW

Sustainable Farming YouTube Video

       -This url brings you to a youtube video that explores a farm with its manager explaining the nature of the farm, which is fully sustainable and grows over 60 varieties of produce. This would appeal to visual learning students, and would be able to allow a good teacher to create a jumping point to a discussion on how students could create their own sustainable farm. This is a basic premise that will become huge in the future of our society. The students will learn by having an example of how sustainable agriculture works, and can jumpstart the brainstorming process, in which others can learn from the ideas that come forth.


How to become a better public speaker website

        - This url connects you to a website that explains the process of becoming a good public speaker. This aspect is huge in agricultural education, so the website could serve as a great guideline to students and the teachers. The website gives many specific aspects of public speaking including audience and research, etc. A good teacher would use evidence such as this to create a loose set of guidelines to follow when preparing for a public speaking opportunity. This will get students physically involved when they must practice their speaking, but will also use verbal and visual aspects when teaching it to them. Students, I believe, learn best sometimes when there is a list of aspects they can enhance with a particular  topic. If they can look and enhance each specific aspect, then they will learn better, although, real examples/evidence should be used, so perhaps a video of a great public speaker such as MLK should be used in conjunction with this website.


Horseback riding techniques; taking riding to the next level.

         -This url brings you to a website that has all sorts of plans on how to teach different horse riding techniques and aspects. An effective teacher would incorporate a lot of these aspects into an equine curriculum and use the tips that they give on the website. The teacher would incorporate the physical, hands on aspects as the main tools, but could also create powerpoint lectures for the basic principles, which would stimulate auditory, verbal and visual learners. The people in the vocation, as I have learned, learn mostly by doing (the motto of the FFA includes "Learning to do, doing to learn" as its first two lines). Therefore, the physical aspects of the lesson will help students reach their potential, and a good teacher must realize this in order to succeed.