Although I am not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to technology, I can honestly say that I am truly excited about the two courses I am taking this semester. I just finished reading Teaching the iStudent for my other course and I enjoyed it. It is one of the few textbooks I would consider keeping and sharing with others. It gave me a better perspective of who students are and how they think. I am passionate about learning and teaching so one of the things I plan on doing is sharing the wonderful apps and tools I learned about through the author, Mark Barnes (@markbarnes19), with my school. I was also assigned to set up an RSS News Aggregator, set up a Twitter account, and use this blog to share my perspective.
My school is in the process of adopting the 1:1 model and I am hungry for knowledge that will help my leadership team excel in the personalization of instruction given that not many schools have implemented this model in an effective manner. I came across an article titled “Why Schools Should Move beyond One-to-One Computing” and a quote by Alan November got me thinking about Fulton County’s vision for this big step. November states that, “At a time of declining resources within many schools, it’s essential to craft a vision that giving every student a digital device must lead to achievements beyond what we can accomplish with paper.”
I wish I could have a magic ball and see the model’s turnout. I am on a journey toward becoming a tech-savvy leader and need your help, comments, suggestions, and advice because I believe collaboration, humility, and risk-taking are key elements to success.
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Hey Maria a.k.a. Shero! I am on this journey with you. I have my blog page set up, I am follwing the 10 tech/ed related blogs and I have almost added all of the classmates to the list of blogs I follow. Still trying to figure out how to follow like 3 or 4 of our classmates, but I'm sure I will figure it out. I am working on this podcast/i tunes thing now.
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