How have I evolved as an innovative thinker? Honestly I feel leaps and bounds further down my journey to complete transliteracy. I am not sure if it is even fair to compare my former self with where I am today. Bc of this course I have become focused on my audience and I have learned ways to address them and get feedback from them. I guess the biggest thing that I have done bc of this course is I have identified my central questions and narrowed the focus of my capstone down to a point that I am ready to take my ideas and start creating them. I also feel that this course and Brenna has opened my eyes to more fully use my own talents and not hide my potential.
So my thinking has changed from the beginning of the semester. I now have purpose in my thinking. I am excited to start my capstone and I have started convincing others to change and start doing more tech based things. I have looked at buying a white board mat and I still think I am going to use my phone to record my videos. I am also going to download and use whiteboard figures. I could also really use my own drawings and try and make it personal and creative with my own creative side. I have thought changed the way that I teach and grade. The crazy thing is I feel that what we learn here in Touro is ahead of the game for my district. We will talk about something and then my principal will say that we need to start doing this and I am already trying it or have plans to do it. It is interesting to see the teachers that resist the change though. I was silenced in a department meetings when I voiced my opinion about wanting more cloud based books. They kept swearing that it would fail and I tried to ease their fears but they didn't want to hear it. I sadly have found that a lot of teachers resist the change that can ultimately relieve them of their problems. I strive to never be like that. So one of my favorite bands is Hot Water Music. They have a song called Difference Engine. Here is the video (it may not be your cup of tea but I love it, that diving bass line mmmmh good stuff). I hope to be a difference engine.
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The Integration of Technology in the classroom
What is technology? Why technology? What does the 21st Century Learner look like? What does the 21st Century Classroom/Teacher look like? What is the SAMR Model? What is TPACK? What is the Flipped Model? A local study using technology and The Flipped Learning Model Can I really use Technology in the Classroom? How to bring my class/teaching into the 21st century. Instructional videos to Help YOU! use technology more in your classroom Request for specific videos Helpful Links Learn more After reviewing the Sensemaking readings I have come realize that my prototype falls right in line with what we have been taught up to this point. We are asked to think about the audience and make it more relevant for them. I feel that asking them straight up what it is they need help with to better integrate technology in their classes is probably the most sensemaking-ish approach one can take. I think that this is designed specifically around my audience. One challenge I may have is helping those teachers that are resistant to changing. I hope that my first pages on the site are helpful to give (no I need a better word) exhort (haha there is a 5$ word) those reluctant teachers to want to change and let me bridge that gap for them to 21st century teaching. So really my 1st prototype was done when I finished my table of contents. I am going to have a web page (uhh site??) that is built from the questions/sections that were in my table of contents. I want to share videos that will help teachers use the technology they have better. So how does TPACK play into all this. So in the video Punya Mishra gave a wonderful intro into TPACK but he glossed over something (he actually said that we did not need to know this at the very beginning of the video). I feel I address this with my site. So what is this thing? In the video he says that technology changes
How we teach (pedagogy) What we teach (content) And the context within which teaching/learning happens So the need to know is What do teachers need to know? I will say that what many teachers need but either don’t know where to look or how to look is the technology that teachers have available but they don’t know how to use. That is exactly what I plan to address with my prototype/capstone. A way for teachers to build up the T in TPACK. In my experience I have found teachers who are good at pedagogy and content but lack the technological aspect of this model. Until now... |
Adam Vedomske
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April 2017
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