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.
Full transparency I thought this produsage assignment would be a piece of cake. After all this is what I do. I have written thousands of lesson plans over the past 27 years. What actually happened, I got a really good wake up call about how teaching and instructional design are not the same. Let me explain. Good teachers think small. They write lessons that are tailor made for the students who are sitting in front of them that year (or class period). The idea of knowing your kids and creating an assignment that is tailor made for them is the goal. The ideal. When I started the produsage assignment I approached it from this direction. What will the sixth graders that I have in my class this year be able to do? What do I want to accomplish with them? What I have come to realize that instructional designers think BIG ! It's not about what you need for just a few kids who you see everyday. Instructional designers create lessons on a much larger scale. The lessons you create nee...
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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