This week, was a pretty successful week as far as learning/teaching/and using technology. I organized a VERY successful staff development with colleagues. Some of my skepticism towards some of my staff members and using technology was eased. I have learned that with LOTS of organization and reassurance you can teach an old dog new tricks. This thinking can also be relevant with students who are learning to use technology. Although there may be times you and your students may get frustrated, but you have to patient and know that new technologies take time to work out kinks. This week made it very exciting for me to want to do further trainings with my staff and to incorporate more technology into my classroom as they were very appreciative and were more at ease with the “scary” computer.
This week’s reading by Dr. Schmidt was filled with a variety of technological tools that I could use and introduce to my staff. This week’s in-class activity gave me a deeper understanding of what TPACK is and allowed me to distinguishing the various components needed to teach literacy, the technologies that are available, and how we can teach those skills. It really helped me to “refresh” my bag of tricks.
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Yay for the professional development going well!! What kinds of things did you tackle?
ReplyDeleteProfessional development is always an adventure. As experienced teachers I think we all can agree. With the professional development provides me with something that I can immediately use in the classroom it is usually successful. My guess, is that you did that. You gave some your staff something they could see being used in the classroom.
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