Module 2 Assignment

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  1. Hi, I thought I'd killed two birds with one stone
  2. today and play with the application that I selected from
  3. my tech by tools.
  4. Talk to complete the applicant to complete today's assignment.
  5. This week's assignment was very interesting for me in part
  6. because I really hadn't thought about what thought about that.
  7. What teachers are doing in classrooms is really based around
  8. theories and frameworks and strategies.
  9. I just thought they got up and taught what they
  10. knew anyways.
  11. It was enlightening week for me, given the fact that
  12. I've never been at the front of the classroom.
  13. I've always been a student in the classroom.
  14. Okay To address the first question of about teacher leaders.
  15. Teacher leaders embody three mindsets, community agency and creativity.
  16. The teachers in the use case demonstrated each of these
  17. as they work through their issues.
  18. They demonstrated community by engaging with each other and engaging
  19. with a broader community, by participating in the Ed Camp
  20. Conference. Yeah, they demonstrated agency by addressing the problems of
  21. practice which were low state test scores and for reading
  22. writing through the development of a maker space curriculum.
  23. And they shared that curriculum and what they developed with
  24. other schools with the intent of being able to provide
  25. that experience to as many students across the district as
  26. they were able to reach.
  27. Finally, creativity, creativity was required throughout the project.
  28. It was demonstrated through their passion for helping the students
  29. um as was evident of what an out of the
  30. box solution that they came up with from maker space.
  31. They had the tenacity to work through some of the
  32. resource limitations that the district in school was facing by
  33. applying for the teacher pay, Nouriel Grant and then once
  34. they were done they shared what they learned with the
  35. broader community.
  36. Mhm. The benefits of being a teacher leader are included,
  37. increased communication or connection with other teachers and staff, enhanced
  38. professional development.
  39. And it also opens the door to or multiple doors
  40. to new career possibilities.
  41. But like with anything there are challenges.
  42. And some of the downsides of being a teacher leader
  43. are finding the balance between the pursuits of being a
  44. leader and spending time in the classroom and then the
  45. inevitable balance of work life balance that we all struggle
  46. with. Finally it is hard sometimes when you are a
  47. teacher leader that other people may not particularly like that.
  48. Um Not everyone likes it when they see their peers
  49. succeeding leaders in the corporate world um have similar characteristics
  50. in the company that I work for.
  51. Leaders take ownership.
  52. They have a bias for action and they insist on
  53. higher on the highest of standards.
  54. Um Not anything different than what you would expect.
  55. Um From teachers standing up in front of the classroom
  56. as well as from teachers sharing that knowledge and expanding
  57. that knowledge throughout their teacher community connected education.
  58. The text book talks about connected education being when teachers
  59. are connecting with other teachers and learning through resources um
  60. that are all online and the teachers that were in
  61. the use case did connect through connected or online resources.
  62. They talked about blogs, learning communities and social media such
  63. as twitter benefits that they looked at or that they
  64. experienced as a result of this was having a wide
  65. range of resources that they were able to tap into.
  66. Also the nature of being online allowed them to access
  67. it anywhere anytime.
  68. They could be at a coffee shop in the morning
  69. before school, they could be at the gym in the
  70. afternoon, they could be at home working or at the
  71. school. Okay.
  72. And again, just like being a teacher leader, being a
  73. connected educator has challenges balance.
  74. Once again, we see between taking the time to learn
  75. and spending time in front of your classroom.
  76. Also, given the fact that it is technology paste and
  77. requires the internet access to the internet is something that's
  78. important as well.
  79. So if you don't have access to the internet, then
  80. that is a challenge.
  81. The teachers that were in the case demonstrated their connected
  82. learning communities at the beginning and at the end of
  83. their effort, at the beginning of their effort, they attended
  84. the Ed camp conference, which allowed them to connect with
  85. other communities and other educators.
  86. And at the end of their conference, they shared what
  87. they learned through developing a professional learning community.
  88. They also leverage their Edmundo site and put together a
  89. three day training program for their peers, integrating technology into
  90. the classroom.
  91. For technology's sake really is hard to justify.
  92. But if the argument as to why we should integrate
  93. technology into a classroom is backed up with data, um
  94. it's much more compelling, ensuring that data is collected in
  95. as part of the T.
  96. T. I.
  97. P. P.
  98. Process supports the argument of integrating technology and when you
  99. give teachers, when you back it up with data and
  100. you give teachers the resources and the education, it will
  101. definitely increase acceptance.
  102. And if they're still in doubt, You can always have
  103. them Google positive effects of technology in the classroom and
  104. read one of the 229,000 research articles out there discussing
  105. the benefits of technology in the classroom.