In talking with many colleagues about Twitter, I often hear things like:
“I just don’t get it.”
“I don’t have time for that.”
“I have to many other things going on.”
“I don’t have a smartphone.”
“I don’t want people I don’t know to follow me.”
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CEM: Getting Started | Connected Educators - 0 views
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"Never been part of an online professional community or network? Already part of a community or network, but want to be more connected? The CEM Starter Kit can help you on both fronts. Written by The Connected Educator author Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Powerful Learning Practice in collaboration with the Connected Educators initiative, and loaded with helpful links and embedded videos, the kit takes a 31 days approach for this special month, giving you one simple way to get more connected every day. Please feel free to pass it along to any friend or colleague you think could benefit from getting more connected!"
ASCD Express 8.09 - The What and Why of a Professional Learning Network - 0 views
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Members of any profession need to communicate and collaborate with colleagues to understand and improve their skills. Face-to-face collaboration is personal, but is limited by boundaries of time and space. Participants must have a common time and place for collaboration. Digital collaboration has no bounds of time or space, and collaboration can take place anytime with anyone, anywhere.
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Technology is not a generational thing, it is a learning thing. It may be outside many educators’ comfort zones, but comfort zones are the biggest obstacles to education reform.
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The time has come for educators to accept that they no longer have a choice about technology. To maintain relevance as educators, they need to employ relevant technology learning tools for education, connect and collaborate with other professionals to improve their skills and knowledge within their profession, and use PLNs to improve their profession and hold off the barbarian politicians and business people banging down the gates of education
It's the End of an Era - Enter the Knowledgeable Networker - Forbes - 0 views
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In a faster-and-faster moving world, the ability to tap your team members’ or former colleagues’ networks to bring expertise to a situation and then set it free, will allow your organization to be faster, more nimble, and more capable than ever before.
Education Week Teacher: Tips for Tech-Cautious Teachers - 1 views
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So here are some tips and examples I’ve gathered from my classroom and my work as a one-day-a-week tech coach at my school to help teachers better understand and negotiate the digital push in schools. Give Yourself the Time to Learn
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After asking good questions and doing some reconnaissance on tools and apps that your colleagues love, choose a few. Let yourself dabble with the tools. Become comfortable with their interfaces, and give yourself time to understand their purpose and fit (or lack thereof) for your classroom habits and curriculum. At the same time, allow yourself time to say "no" to other flashy new gadgets and tools while you are exploring.
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Tips for Tech-Cautious Teachers
Teacher Collaboration: The A-B-Cs Of Giving Feedback To A Colleague - 1 views
Technology: Why Are Students Better Than Teachers At Using It? - 0 views
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Because information is easy for students to get, they deal with problems, projects, and learning in a different way.
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So, there is a gap between students and teachers. I can’t say for sure how wide the gap is, but it certainly seems to be getting smaller (that’s the good news). But, it is not happening fast enough (that’s the bad news).
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Traditionally, it has been the teachers showing the students something new – now, it seems as though the students are showing something new to their teachers. That’s not an issue, it just means that teachers need to be aware of these changes, accept them, and make sure that students learn how deal with it all. The job is still the same – prepare the students for their future.
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Actually, teachers DON'T have to learn technology - Redefining my role: Teacher as student - 2 views
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t “most teachers” just don’t put in the effort to incorporate technology into their instruction. I would have to agree, but I think it’s important to ask, “Why should they?”
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Or do they?… Are their colleagues telling them they have to? Are their administrators telling them they have to? Are the parents telling them they have to? If not, then they don’t have to learn it.
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I believe it is our responsibility as educators to integrate technology into instruction as much as we are able to
How An LMS and BYOD Changed A School - 0 views
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blended learning and is ideally managed as teacher-led and student-centred.
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During three years at The Southport School in Queensland, Australia, my colleagues and I managed to produce significant changes in classroom practice via the use of Moodle and the staged introduction of mobile devices to the classroom.
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The survey further indicated that most students had 2 or more devices with them in school.
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"blended learning and is ideally managed as teacher-led and student-centred."
Free Technology for Teachers: Best Professional Development Meeting in Years! - 0 views
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For the first time in years we had nearly the whole day to talk with our departmental colleagues about our challenges, our successes, and what we're doing in our classrooms.
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