Educators Will Never Be 100% Connected. | My Island View - 1 views
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eing a Connected Educator is a mindset and not the result of a workshop or seminar for professional development.
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The 21st Century has now further complicated the teaching profession by requiring an additional third area of mastery, digital literacy.
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We no longer have a choice about using technology in education, since the education system is part of a society that depends on technology to communicate, collaborate, communicate, and create.
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educators would be to adopt a learner’s mindset and replace content mastery with digital literacy, namely learning via social networks.
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Jenny Ashby on Twitter and she suggested that until staff incorperate technology into the everyday aspects of their lives then how can we really magically expect them to embrace it at their workplace.
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Educators have always needed to master the understanding of at least two fields of endeavor to be successful. First, they needed to master their content field. They are required to be experts of content. Second, they needed to master the field of education with a clear understanding of the latest and greatest methodology and pedagogy available. The 21st Century has now further complicated the teaching profession by requiring an additional third area of mastery, digital literacy. This is required to accomplish many of the necessary tasks in the space occupied by our nation in a computer-driven world. It is the mastery of this third element that educators struggle with today. It is this third element that also directly affecting the evolution of content and education.