Thing Two
I am participating in 23 Things because I would like to stay current with technology tools and teaching approaches. In the past few years I have been increasingly perplexed by new technology tools and I have felt the learning gap slowly widening. I don’t want to be a teaching professional who is scared of new technology, so I decided to take the plunge. Let me just be clear here, technology is not my forte…not by a long shot…but I am going to persevere.
While taking this class I hope to become familiar with technology tools and how they can be utilized in my “real world” classroom of young learners. I am always looking for new ways to make teaching and learning more dynamic and meaningful. I hope to use technology to help meet this goal. I also hope to be able to offer technology and teaching information to my colleagues.
Writing on the Internet, in a place where anyone can read it, definitely causes me to think twice before I write. I do differentiate the style of writing depending on the context. For instance, I can be much more informal when writing posts on Facebook, which is a place for friends and family to share thoughts. But I do feel that this class is a more formal setting, so I would like to sound a bit more professional.
LittleRedsTeacher, Welcome to the 23Things journey! "Perseverance" is sometimes a key trait to feeling successful with new technology tools. I'm so glad you decided to take this course because you see the widening gap between what we have in the classroom and are using and what we could be doing to help our students become better digital citizens. Even Facebook is a tool where we can model safe and appropriate use of the Internet. Everything on the Web is permanent! Good for you for taking this opportunity to become proactive about your learning! Thanks for joining us this term. Hopefully there will soon be a few more bloggers here with whom you can share and respond to each other!
ReplyDeletePerserverance - That has many times been described in me as a negative. :-/ BUT it will hopefully serve me well here, as well as for our LittleRedsTeacher. I feel in the same boat as LRT with that widening gap; I know just "so" much, but the other possible learnings just go on and on. I am hoping to at least catch up a bit. Maybe I will even remember how to get into my Facebook account!
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