Topic #1: Briefly share what your dream teaching or presentation environment would be like, be specific about what such a place would include (beyond just the tech toys).
My dream assignment would be with colleagues that are interested in improving how they teach and discussing best practices. They go out and read the research on their own and then apply it to their pedagogy. Everyone would work as a team within the school to make 21st century learning a priority. Of course, we'd want the technology tools to go with all this including one to one computing. I'm tired of being basically the lone wolf when it comes to moving forward. Another important part of this environment would be administrators that shared our vision and worked hard to fulfill it. I don't care if it is K-12 or above this would be the environment I'd love to teach in.
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Sunday, April 25, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Discussion Board Topic One
Topic #2: Tech in your workplace: How has your workplace kept up with tech or not kept up with tech? What kinds of tech things have you bought to use in your classroom/presentation?
What I found to work in my district was to become head of my middle school’s tech committee and then end up on the school-wide tech committee. That has allowed me to be a part of the discussion and lead others into what was and is needed. The fun thing about being the head of the committee was that when it came to our schools spending money on tech the teachers in the middle school followed what I showed them and our middle school took the lead on the elementary and high school. The elementary has never found the leadership and our high school keeps mimicking what we’ve done in the middle school. Unfortunately, being in Michigan, we are now hurting greatly for money and updates to our equipment aren’t looking very good. The one good thing is I’m still on the committees and have the pulse of what’s possible in our school district.
As to what we bought we outfitted every teacher in the middle school with projectors and a document camera. We also got new Macs at the time for every teacher and outfitted 3 rooms with a mini lab of macs. We also put mini labs of thin clients into 7 of our teachers rooms so 10 of our teachers have 9-10 computers in their rooms.
What I found to work in my district was to become head of my middle school’s tech committee and then end up on the school-wide tech committee. That has allowed me to be a part of the discussion and lead others into what was and is needed. The fun thing about being the head of the committee was that when it came to our schools spending money on tech the teachers in the middle school followed what I showed them and our middle school took the lead on the elementary and high school. The elementary has never found the leadership and our high school keeps mimicking what we’ve done in the middle school. Unfortunately, being in Michigan, we are now hurting greatly for money and updates to our equipment aren’t looking very good. The one good thing is I’m still on the committees and have the pulse of what’s possible in our school district.
As to what we bought we outfitted every teacher in the middle school with projectors and a document camera. We also got new Macs at the time for every teacher and outfitted 3 rooms with a mini lab of macs. We also put mini labs of thin clients into 7 of our teachers rooms so 10 of our teachers have 9-10 computers in their rooms.
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