{"id":72,"date":"2013-07-12T17:03:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T00:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/?p=72"},"modified":"2013-07-12T17:03:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T00:03:59","slug":"two-weeks-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/2013\/07\/12\/two-weeks-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Two weeks down&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I am feeling much more like I have a sense of direction. \u00a0Starting the inquiry process helped me to focus, and not feel overwhelmed by the volume of information. \u00a0I am feeling like I have a vision of where I am going next week, although I still have plenty to do before my final project is done.<\/p>\n<p>My plan is to create something to help primary teachers integrate technology in their classrooms. \u00a0From what I have seen at my school, ICT is used more in the intermediate classes than in primary. \u00a0Since I have taught all grades from K-3, and have a fairly good understanding of technology, I feel like I have a foot in each world and can help teachers to bridge the gap. \u00a0I am thinking of presenting a workshop at our district Pro-D day in November, but also having some sort of blog\/wiki\/idea board where teachers can get and share ideas of good ICT integration.<\/p>\n<p>We have really focused on starting with the &#8220;why&#8221; this week. \u00a0Like I mentioned last week I expected to come into this course and hear about a bunch of cool apps, web services, and programs that I could use. \u00a0And we have been hearing about some great things during the 10 minutes of fame presentations. \u00a0But, I have learned that the &#8220;why&#8221; (What goal do we have for our students?) informs, and is much more important than, the &#8220;what&#8221; (Which app should we use?).<\/p>\n<p>So now my goal is to get primary teachers in my district thinking the same way I am thinking, but I don&#8217;t quite know how to do that. \u00a0Considering the range of attitudes, abilities, and access to ICT of colleagues in this course, I know I will see a similar (if not even greater) range in primary teachers in my district. \u00a0How do I get them all to understand in a two hour workshop what has taken us two weeks of discussion, research, and idea-wrestling? \u00a0I don&#8217;t know, but I&#8217;m hoping next week will make it clearer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all about lists so here is my think-aloud of what I need to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">finish research (need to investigate screen time and digital citizenship a bit more)<\/span><\/li>\n<li>organize big ideas (read through highlighting)<\/li>\n<li>find examples of meaningful ICT integration (teachers love examples)<\/li>\n<li>see what tech workshops were offered in the district last year (don&#8217;t want to overlap, and may find possible collaborators)<\/li>\n<li>find\/develop a framework for planning (check BCTLA points of inquiry for ideas)<\/li>\n<li>determine how to plan a workshop (never given one before &#8211; eek!!)<\/li>\n<li>decide on a digital platform for sharing ideas (easy for me to maintain and colleagues to contribute)<\/li>\n<li>figure out how to get teachers on board to start with &#8220;why&#8221; instead of &#8220;what&#8221; (maybe analogies to older technology)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This seems like a very ambitious list, but considering how I was feeling last week, and how far I&#8217;ve come, I am NOT going to feel overwhelmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I am feeling much more like I have a sense of direction. \u00a0Starting the inquiry process helped me to focus, and not feel overwhelmed by the volume of information. \u00a0I am feeling like I have a vision of where I am going next week, although I still have plenty to do before my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/collinsamy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}