About Me

Hey everyone, for those do you do not yet know me, my name is Anthony Gerbs and I am planning on getting certified in elementary education with a mathematics emphasis. I have been placed in Grand Haven for my student assisting and have had wonderful experiences so far. I am currently a busy be, but that's how my life always is. I am coaching youth soccer, working with toddlers at the YMCA and reffing soccer as well. I love sports in general and my favorite two seasons are coming up, hockey and football. I am originally from the east side of the state and grew up just outside of Detroit in a city called Farmington. I love being outdoors and traveling. I intend to spend most of my summers off exploring the world around us.

I have used technology in classes I have taken at Grand Valley, however, I have little experience using it in tutoring or other lessons I have done with elementary aged students. In my classes at GVSU, I have used videos in a flipped classroom. The teacher would send us home with videos to watch and we would come back with questions to work on in the classroom. That seemed to work pretty well except for the fact that you had to make sure you thoroughly watched each video and had the discipline to do it every single time.

I have also created blog posts for a class; it was actually my math capstone. I actually thought this was really enjoying.  We would have a number of blog posts to complete by the end of the semester and it was almost like a vent session. You could post about history, the problem solving behind your own math, how to implement different techniques, and even just your personal opinion about something. I though the blogs were useful because you could express yourself in just about anyway and receive feedback from anyone in the class.

Obviously doc cams and other visual sources have been useful, however they have had some downfalls with being tough to work or something wasn't quite right that day. I think overall though google docs and other online sites have positively affected my learning experience.

So in my  experiences, I think technology is rather useful. I think it would be interesting to design lessons for elementary aged children with blogs incorporated. As far as technology goes, I have had issues but it seems that it is more useful than troublesome. I think it has and will continue to revolutionize the classroom.