CLRN

      CLRN, California Learning Resources Network, is a website with learning resources for teachers in their content area.  Examples of resources are online classes, home school tutorials, in class video, and animated  lessons. Some look beneficial to use in a classroom and some look boring, not interactive, and not something I would use in my classroom. 


      Teaching is a profession which takes dedication, time, and focus in different content areas. I want to teach high school biology, which is usually 9-10 graders. I found three resources and they are provide interactions, background knowledge, and pertain to biology. First, benchmark media which is a internet resource that provides concept or school development, practice, assessment in science. The resource that caught my eye, it works in a lab and in a classroom. I took biology in high school and college, I found that learning in a different atmosphere that is not, your standard classroom, is a great way to learn. Second, interactive tutorials, a program that works of any computer home or school. As a teacher using tutorials in my class, can allow students background knowledge of the subject. If students missed a topic in class because they were absent, for example, they can review the tutorial on a subject matter. The topic used of the resource network was animal, bacterial, and plant cells. These cell have organelles or components in them that needed to be listed. Computers can make it graphic and use animation, which will make the lesson better to read. Third, internet textbook, this resource gives background knowledge, concepts and skills, history, and tools used in life science. I would use this in the classroom because it gives a background knowledge which gives students something to look forward to, when the lesson begins. Internet notebooks have pros and cons, using in a classroom will allow students to review them, but students can fall behind by not doing the work. As a teacher, reviewing information that is done outside of class may be difficult. So, for background knowledge i would use it in my classroom, but as a base of learning, I think that should come from the teacher.