We cannot continue on the current path of education if we want to prepare our children for their future. Our children will not live in the world that we grew up in. We need to prepare them to be flexible, critical thinking, problem solvers.
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Don't Argue For Your Limitations | My Island View - 0 views
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"Learning with or about technology for those who have not grown up with technology is an uncomfortable thing to do"
Are we preparing students for life? « My Island View - 0 views
If Twitter Is Not PD, What Is It? | My Island View - 0 views
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" Twitter as a tool for providing Professional Development, but rather a tool that enables collaboration"
Building a professional learning network on Twitter « My Island View - 0 views
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Building a professional Learning Network consisting of quality educators, who responsibly share quality information and sources, takes time and requires a plan. It is my belief that the people you follow are far more important than those who follow you.
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How do you find those quality educators to follow in order to add value to your PLN?
Why Change as an Educator? | My Island View - 0 views
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As much as some people may yearn for the simpler times of the past, life will continue to move forward as the natural order of society requires.
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If we do not take time to understand new information and how it interacts with what we do, we, as a profession, may go the way of typewriters, photographic film, super 8 film, 8 track cassettes, landline telephones, or block-ice refrigeration.
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Staying up-to-date, relevant, on information in your own profession is a moral imperative. We can’t expect what we learned as college students to carry us through a 30 or 40-year career.
What If School Was More Like Twitter? « My Island View - 0 views
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What If School Was More Like Twitter?
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bulk of the information exchange available on Twitter for instance comes in the form of links, or URL’s, which are internet addresses to pages of information.
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Twitter offers us is the ability to respond to ideas and have a general discussion about those responses.
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"Cellphones are a Distraction" « My Island View - 1 views
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Note-passing is the bane of a teacher’s existence and this method is technological. Again, there are procedures in place for passing notes. The teacher needs only to now stipulate written or digital; problem solved.
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Smartphones are powerful, mobile, personal learning devices. But of course, there is that damned control issue thing.
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Why not teach them how to maximize their learning. We can’t expect them to use the technology appropriately if they “learn it on the streets”.
Twitter Ties « My Island View - 0 views
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I happened upon an Application, or Twitter tool called Manage Flitter. It was designed to identify from a list of follows those who do not follow back
What Is Technology? « My Island View - 3 views
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what we consider to be technology, is totally dependent on when it was introduced into our lives.
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Rarely do we refer to it or even think about the car as technology, because it has always been with us.
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Educators should not be so arrogant as to think they have the ability to decide whether or not kids can use these tools for learning. The kids do it with, or without adult permission. Any educator has the right to choose to live in a cave, however, they do not have the right to drag their students in there with them.
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What's the big deal about Blogging? « My Island View - 0 views
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Writing for an audience of only one is a tedious process. This is the preferred method in education. The writer needs to wait for the composition to be graded
Why most teachers don't know what they don't know. « My Island View - 1 views
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Technology is the driving force behind most of the education innovation. It is impacting not only what we can do as educators, but it is also changing how we approach learning. These innovations may have not all reached the education journals yet, but they have been presented and are being discussed digitally and at great length in social media.
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Information from technology may be easily accessed, but it is not yet a passive exercise. It requires effort and an ability to learn and adapt. These are skills that all educators have, but many may not always be willing to use. The status quo has not required educators to use these skills in a long time. Using these skills requires effort and leaving a long-standing zone of comfort in order to learn and use new methods of information retrieval.
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They need to be the life-long learners that they want their students to be.
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Eliminate Tech from the Education Discussion | My Island View - 0 views
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technology needs not to be in discussions of education, but rather in how will the education of any kid be applied in an ever-evolving, technology-driven world in which tour kids will be required to live.
Okay, I'm connected. Now what? | My Island View - 0 views
I Am Not A Techie! | My Island View - 0 views
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digital literacy is not a generational thing; it is a learning thing.
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Patience for the Unconnected | My Island View - 0 views
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Connected educators may be the worst advocates for getting other educators to connect.
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The idea of collaborative learning is that we are all in this together, and together we are better and smarter than we are individually.