Alright, time to come clean. Although I read most of the articles that had been provided to us it was really the Learning Coach that caught my eye with it’s title.<\/p>\n
And that’s only because I thought that it was going to be an article about a new technology – Learning Coaches. Which in essence I consider myself to be as I provide online and f-f support for kids who are home schooled. That is not, however anywhere close to what this article is actually about and I really have to laugh at my short-sightedness.<\/p>\n
It turns out it is actually an overview of technology trends and their potential for education in 2012. Of the eight that were mentioned, really only one was new too me – the online curator service. And that gave me a bit of pause. Am I the typical educator?<\/p>\n
When I think about the question of how useful these<\/em> technologies would be to the broader educational community<\/em> I believe we really need to take a look at what defines community. There does appear to be growing divide in public schools between teachers who are willing\/flexible\/comfortable\/confident with technology and those who are not. I have many colleagues that still consider overhead projectors to be adequate technology. \u00a0At the same time there is also a spectrum of teachers with good classroom strategies (from experience and seasoning) to those who struggle (usually but not always due to inexperience). I have witnessed new teachers trying to implement technology without a sound framework and appropriateness for it’s use into their lessons.<\/p>\n By my calculations that leaves probably less then 10 percent of the educational community that have enough experience and enough tech-savvy to be able to appropriately find use in their practice for these technologies. So how useful are these technologies – incredibly and undeniably useful, but only to about 10 percent of educators.<\/p>\n Counter arguments anyone?<\/p>\n And I’ve already signed up to eLearning Coach newsletter and included the link on my twitter feed. It’s a fabulous resource.<\/p>\n PC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alright, time to come clean. Although I read most of the articles that had been provided to us it was really the Learning Coach that caught my eye with it’s title. And that’s only because I thought that it was going to be an article about a new technology – Learning Coaches. Which in essence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3834,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328793],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-02-the-edtech-marketplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3834"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7638,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}