So I am officially writing my first blog and it is equal parts exciting and terrifying. I am speeding towards fifty and in the blink of an eye I have gone from the youngest teacher on staff to the one who taught your mom(True story). What I never want to be is the teacher who has no idea what is going on in terms of technology. As an educator, you have to keep learning and evolving. If you don't, you will become obsolete, even if you don't know that you are. I am hoping that this class helps me become my best teacher self. I want people to be like, that old lady taught my mom, but she's still relevant and she might know what she's talking about. So as we old timers like to say, here goes nothing. Let the fun begin. #tiredteacher #mathdiva.
I have been struggling with our upcoming knowledge sharing assignment. I think the problem is that I have too many big ideas. I want my students to all have access to the internet. I want my kids to all be fluent. I want them to know how to do all the things. In an ideal world, I would be able to go into my classroom on day one and incorporate every tool that we learned about in this class. I want all of these thing and I want them right now! Here's the problem. I have to do the work. If I want my big ideas to work, I have to start small. The problem is that small sometimes feels too small. I always want to put my spin on it, to try and make it my own. For me, curating and sharing the content of other people feels a little dishonest. Even when you give credit, someone is getting the idea from you and they might attribute it to you. I am much more comfortable sharing something verbally, than I am sharing something in a online space. I am starting to understand that sharing c...
You might be the person who "taught my mom", but I think being relevant is just depends on the setting! And maybe the group of people you are with. I'm sure this class will help us all stay relevant on the current trends in social media.
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