Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Reflection from first day on Teaching with Technology
Our first day was the grand intro. We met Jeff Stanzler and Kristin Fonticiaro (how to pronunce?), who are enthusiatic and want lots of feedback. We had a few sessions, both helped us to learn about the NETS and performance indicators. We broke off into two groups and each group had a set of the 5 standards. We then separated into small groups and tried to make sense of the techno-speak. I was the facilitator for my 1st group using STD 2, writing down the questions on a Giant Post It. I then was the explainer for the next group (Std 2), writing down more questions and impressions, and finally moved to a new group (Std 4) to field more ideas with another small group. I learned a lot about Std 2 & 4 , but not anything about 1,3&5.
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I think you hit the nail on the head in identifying the weakness of the Cafe Conversations approach we took. Check out Jeff's post at http://ed504profs.blogspot.com .
ReplyDeletePS - Font-ih-CHAIR-oh. :)
Thanks- I hope we can get a few more session to study the technological standards in detail so that we know what we need to do.
ReplyDeleteI had problems with the explainer role as well; I didn't get to discuss one of the standards much. I'm not particularly fond of the existing standards at the moment because to me they seem like political statements; vague goals rather than clear tasks.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree that I am very glad that our instructors are so enthusiastic because I could have envisioned this class becoming very boring. I thought that the rotating group activity was pretty helpful although I felt that being the explainer was the most valuable role because I thought I gave me a better understanding of the material when I explained it to others.
ReplyDeleteI think it's fantastic that we're all participating in possible future teaching methods now. I also had trouble getting to every station, but I think the good thing is that we experience these frustrations now so that when we use these methods- our students will not have to experience it!
ReplyDeleteI also enjoyed the structure of our first class! A mix of lecture and group learning works well for me. I didn't get to every station, but feel that there was so much overlap that I still got in the main points...
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