Homecoming For An Intern

         So, for this Blog Post I am going to talk about my weekend. It was amazing! I got to be a chaperone at Cocoa High School's Homecoming. It was so much fun being the adult, watching the kids dance and have fun. I won't lie, it was even fun to see the kids do outrageous things, and to tell them no. Let me explain; one of my senior students decided to bring a chair onto the dance floor. Well, one can only imagine what she did with it. I will say that it involved sitting and having others dance around her. Since I am only four to five years older than some of these kids, when I tried to take the chair away, not all of them realized I was a chaperone, let alone an adult. I was getting back-sass comments like, "Who do you think you are? That's not your chair!" My reply was simple, "I'm Mr. Hickey, and it's my chair now."
         My girlfriend even got to go with me, and she too had an eventful night. She happens to look younger than me, but in reality is only a few months younger than I am. Many students mistook her for a high school student when I wasn't around, either by looking, or actually asking her who she was. We had a blast though, fun stories came out of the night along with plenty of learning experience for myself.

1. Digital Native, I live my everyday life with some form of tech on me whether its my computer, phone, or some type of device. I am as native as you can get.

2. Socrative is really cool! I love learning apps, I think they are the wave of the future after seeing how they can be used in my Internship I.

3. I think writing in general is important. I feel if we are going to get kids writing we have to appeal to them in some way and the best way to do that now a days is digitally. The biggest risk I feel is plagiarism. Kids don't realize because they have grown up with the copy paste feature how risky and dangerous plagiarism is, or how easy it is to do.

4. I thought the coolest thing on Jane Harts PPT was Google Docs for sure. I have seen the power of Google docs and it should be number one. I just watched my homeroom teacher review a research paper with the student across the room using Google Docs and Google Classroom. Nothing is better than that.

5. I think the bottom three remembering, understanding, and applying. I have trouble with all three of these and I consider myself a digital native. Kids always ask me how do I do this task Mr. Hickey, which they have been doing since August. The hardest things for kids is remembering how to apply what they know and understanding why they have to do it, even when it comes to technology.

6. Recap it is a video recording website where students can record for up to 2 minutes about something. Very cool and very useful.