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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Joseph Hall
5/1/2017 11:12:10 am
"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."
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todd mills
5/2/2017 02:32:32 pm
Adam,
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Zack
5/2/2017 02:59:34 pm
You really sound like a like long learner in your openness to try new things and press the envelop. Your colleagues who aren't even open to cloud-based texts are clearly not. There will be a huge shift as the baby boomers retire and new teachers come aboard. Eventually, it will be a department joke that anything but cloud based curriculum was a thing. I can understand old-schools holding on to the nostalgia; I also enjoy holding a tangible book, but as teachers we have to put aside what we prefer and think about their learning.
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