What are you initial ideas for where you might go in addressing the challenge of creating a resource to influence others and share your knowledge and research based on your readings of Dervin, Baggio, and Clark? (The resource you create will evolve into your Capstone project/product.)
From the very start my end user was the teachers that I work with. If I could not pass the knowledge on to other teachers then the good that my work had done would be wasted. I wanted to share my knowledge and know-how with other teachers so that they too could reap the benefits from it. I have had a lot of ideas over the course of the last month. All of these ideas are related to making teacher practice more fluid, more consolidated. I got to thinking that whatever I do it needs to truly be helpful. Teachers are overloaded with so much every year; New mentalities, new strategies, new content, new pedagogies. Teachers are asked to upheave their practice after they finally become confident in their practice or in a tool they are then asked to throw it away and do something else. I don't want whatever resource I am introducing these teachers be something that they smile and nod about while I am delivering the information and as soon as they leave they throw it in their " try later" bin in their brain and then it is eventually forgotten. I think that doing a tech ten presentation at the weekly staff meeting would be helpful. I can bring these great new technology tools to the teachers and give them the resources that they need to get started. I think that the best way to do this is not just to explain to them about it but wherever possible I can give them the opportunity to try these tools in my presence. That way they can ask me questions as they arise. Not only are humans visual learners but their are also hands on learners. I think that giving a teacher step by step instructions of how to use a strategy in their classroom...they best way to do this would be to have teachers come to the meeting ready to try out these tools.
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Tess Giner
3/17/2019 07:26:03 pm
I think your Tech Ten idea is a good one! Try it. There are some old fogies that are afraid of technology, but having you as a resource at the site will hopefully encourage them to come around. The one thing you have is this infecting sense of positivity! You can do it!
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