July 14, 2010
teachers to display certain technologies that they use in their classroom. For example teachers gave short displays of how they use their smart board, elmo, writing slates, mobile labs, and dual display monitors. Not only does this set up allow for teachers to get professional development without missing a day of school, but it also allows them to get support from their co-workers. In a perfect world, every campus would have a technology specialist who could assist our teachers in an attempt to incorporate technology into every lesson. These ideas and professional development opportunities fit into the data/computer portion of the technology framework, which states "provides interactivity and control. Data technology provides interactive (input/output) functionality to previously linear and/or passive processes. Interactivity dramatically alters knowledge construction and acquisition" (Framework for the technology cognate at baylor university, (2010).
Professional Development can be an excellent way for teachers to learn how to utilize technology. In order for this to be effective, I think we may have to rethink what our ideas of professional development have been in the past. Instead of signing up for a workshop months in advance, attending the class, and finally bringing the information back to school and trying to apply it, we must have weekly professional development that is led by teachers or staff in the school setting. At my school we started doing this last year in regards to technology. At our weekly professional learning community meetings, we assigned different
teachers to display certain technologies that they use in their classroom. For example teachers gave short displays of how they use their smart board, elmo, writing slates, mobile labs, and dual display monitors. Not only does this set up allow for teachers to get professional development without missing a day of school, but it also allows them to get support from their co-workers. In a perfect world, every campus would have a technology specialist who could assist our teachers in an attempt to incorporate technology into every lesson. These ideas and professional development opportunities fit into the data/computer portion of the technology framework, which states "provides interactivity and control. Data technology provides interactive (input/output) functionality to previously linear and/or passive processes. Interactivity dramatically alters knowledge construction and acquisition" (Framework for the technology cognate at baylor university, (2010). Today's class was very informative about technologies that have just come into existence and some that are right around the corner. This quick video mentions a couple of things we talked about in class. I also enjoyed two thing that Addy showed us how to do. I am especially looking forward to embedding videos into my school and principal website. This portion of the class that I plan to use addresses the Video Technology cognate which states,"provides - presence‖ and -affect. The ability to simultaneously capture, modify, store, and transmit visual images is video technology‘s potent contribution to the technology spectrum" Framework for the technology cognate at baylor university, (2010).
The web-quests were also very interesting and I am definitely going to share them with my teachers during our inservice in August. One more thing that was beneficial was the Principal Office blog. There are several interesting and informative things that I will be able to use from this blog. Great class today Addy!!!
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