Working in a school setting, which differs so much from the corporate world, I find it difficult to compare this chapter to my current professional setting. However, I do like the idea of the team approach, especially the global team approach. I think it could be helpful to be able to compare notes with teachers in other parts of the state, country and even the world. While standards are obviously different in different parts of the world, the basic goal is the same: educating the students and preparing them to make it in 'the real world.' This is already happening to a certain extent with websites that teachers can make their lesson plans available, but I think it could be beneficial to make it part of professional development where an online conference is scheduled once a quarter for teachers of similar fields to discuss teaching strategies and ideas. Principals could set this up with other schools and by doing so this could make schools more unified and strengthen each other.
Another thing that I think could be beneficial to implement in the school system is more technology-based training delivery. There are so many strategies for instruction, classroom management, integrating technology and many others that most of the time are presented by going to a conference or a workshop, which can be very helpful. However, it could be more cost efficient and time efficient to do some of these trainings by using a technology-based training delivery. By still having online communication available as an option questions could still be asked and teachers could still collaborate. I think this could be a good option for many in the teaching profession.
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I feel like I've learned a lot thus far this semester. I am quite familiar with technology, having had to implement it quite a lot in my undergraduate courses, not to mention that has been a part of growing up in today's world. However, there have been some things that I had not yet experimented with that I enjoyed learning about. I have not necessarily found any of them extremely challenging, but we have been provided with good instructions that have been easy to follow. Not to mention, all the other members of the class have been very supportive in helping out with any questions. I've never felt at a loss for what to do. I hope to be able to incorporate some of these things in my classroom. As of right now I can most likely see myself using the blogs and the bookmarking page, but will definitely keep the other tools in my mind as a resource just in case they could ever be implemented. I think this is a good class for beginning a masters program. I find the work load manageable and is a good introduction for what is to come in the program. I like that we are constantly looking at how we can apply this in the professional world. It has been a good class so far.
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I have learned a lot too. I learned about social bookmarking, Podcasts, and even Blogs. I would not have learned about these cool things if it wasn't for this class.
Teamwork is crucial to the success of students in the school.
Just wanted to mention that your comments about online training for teachers, and using online type education in the schools got me thinking more about it. This has been a recurring thought the whole semester because (as I have mentioned in a few blog postings) there is a local school teaching some of their students a foreign language through online classes. I keep leaning more and more toward an opinion that we are taking a job away from a teacher, the students are missing something, and a classroom setting for some subject is necessary, but your actually sparked some more positive thoughts. I definitely see where you are coming from, and definitely for staff development and professional education. After all, we are doing that right now... and it's been good so far! :) Good reflection!
What a great idea. Collaboration in the education field has always been a must. Technology in the current settings has so much potential to offer. I know that it probably happens a lot already with email, blogs, etc, but wouldn't it be an awesome idea to come up with (if it doesn't already exist) some kind of software, or some component of the web that is strictly for educator to collaborate, uniquely made to allow the sharing of materials, projects, etc. If only I was a programmer...lol.
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