Good evening. Today I was in the mist of a computer war on internet search resources! I literally had to serender and give up the fight. I was introduced to a computer information adult whiz. This individual had so much information to share about how to find information that I almost forgot the word Google. Imagine that! Technology is changing so rapidly, at least for those of us who are not computer savvey. We are still trying to figure out how to create an icon in the tool bar. Now we find that we can create notebooks just to store information on computers. Do you remember the time when notebooks were a binder with paper? Have I reached a point in my life where my middle school students are smarter than their teacher? I mean with technology of course. Yes, I can not lie, I have now admitted it! Another one of the few things I need to work on this week is letting technology work for me . My future plans however will be to let my students know that I will actually need their help with interegrating technology into class instruction. On the bright side, I can begin the new school year with empowering my students. Isn't this what we want as educators to happen? My students will be given the opportunity to be the experts on things they know more about than I do. Don't get me wrong, I will learn most of what there is to know about technology; just not all of it today.
Stay tuned to what I have learned about myself and the areas that I should improve on tomorrow. Until then, stay connected.
I lived in Dayton for a year. Maybe that's where I know you from. I worked as a sped. coordinator. Nice blog.
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I realize that you may be overwhelmed but you are an educated person and will be fine. There is nothing wrong not knowing how to use various forms of technology. I believe it is more important that you are taking the time to enroll in a class to learn about those items. It will eventually come to you and administration will be asking you to lead a professional development exercise in the future. On a side note, I remember being in elementary school and all of the cool kids had notebooks of their favorite athletic teams. Living in Charlotte I would show-off my Hornets notebook and all of its contents. I had pencils, pencil sharpener, notebook paper, stickers, and erasers with Hugo on them. Those were the good days when the city embraced the NBA.
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