Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society.
Of all the NETs, this is the one I need the most work in. I do try to present information and have students learn in different ways, but I do not communicate with students, peers, and parents in any innovative or effective ways at all.
When preparing lessons for my classes I try to present my material in a variety of ways. I absolutely love Apple's Keynote to put together presentations. I try to include lots of visuals and video for my students seeing that most of them are visual learners. I also try to prepare lessons for them that they need to use the Internet for. I did an activity the other day about the inventions of the Scientific Revolution that forced them to wade through multiple layers of information to find what was relevant to our task and factual. This fostered some peer collaboration to disseminate what information they needed.
Our students do use Google Drive to prepare Personal Learning Plans which are shared with me and their other teachers. We share information, feedback, and career exploration. Being connected through Google means we can comment on or add information to anyone's folder. This has been a great experience for our students and will help them in the work-world post high school.
Communication and collaboration has not gone well. The parents of our students aren't either tech savvy enough to use various medias to communicate with me (one or two parents email) or they are not interested enough in their student to communicate. While I love the idea of using Twitter or Edmodo to connect with our students and parents and am going to try and use Blogger to document the highlights of my classroom next year.
Of all the NETs, this is the one I need the most work in. I do try to present information and have students learn in different ways, but I do not communicate with students, peers, and parents in any innovative or effective ways at all.
When preparing lessons for my classes I try to present my material in a variety of ways. I absolutely love Apple's Keynote to put together presentations. I try to include lots of visuals and video for my students seeing that most of them are visual learners. I also try to prepare lessons for them that they need to use the Internet for. I did an activity the other day about the inventions of the Scientific Revolution that forced them to wade through multiple layers of information to find what was relevant to our task and factual. This fostered some peer collaboration to disseminate what information they needed.
Our students do use Google Drive to prepare Personal Learning Plans which are shared with me and their other teachers. We share information, feedback, and career exploration. Being connected through Google means we can comment on or add information to anyone's folder. This has been a great experience for our students and will help them in the work-world post high school.
Communication and collaboration has not gone well. The parents of our students aren't either tech savvy enough to use various medias to communicate with me (one or two parents email) or they are not interested enough in their student to communicate. While I love the idea of using Twitter or Edmodo to connect with our students and parents and am going to try and use Blogger to document the highlights of my classroom next year.
