Summary of Week #2 and Final Project Proposal

Had an interesting time connecting with my group members in the Inquiry group.  We had a mixture of elementary and high school so the mixture was interesting.  As for myself, “inquiry” was a new buzz word.  Was it the same as “resource” based learning or was it simply research.  I spent a few days just observing and seeing how they connected with the topic and finally I had to ask the basic question how is “inquiry” based learning different from just plain research?  They were able to explain the difference and the importance of  the “big question” based on the curriculum.

I was later able to connect the “Inquiry” model with what I planned to talk about (Bloom’s New Taxonomy) and Language  in my summative talk, so I was pleased.  For someone who has been out of school it was a quite a thinking process.  For me, the theory has to connect to my practice and implementation, otherwise it gets filed in the back of my brain and could lay dormant.

At this point I’m not sure how the summative presentation will connect, with the final project, but it just might still need to be processed.

Proposal for Final Project

One of the things I have notice and it was not such a concern for me at the time is the growing divide between technology and teachers.  We have a group of teachers who are willing to embrace technology and don’t have too much difficulty connecting with it.  There are some who have greater difficulties.  This creates a disparity and divide between these groups of teachers.  Of course there are some teachers who can find themselves in between the two groups.  However, the goal for the final project will be to create a blog to connect teachers and support staff with technology at SLSS.  This method will enable ways for me to communicate information on how to connect with technology and how to encourage users and let those who are more comfortable with technology the latest trends.  It will be our own online professional library that focuses on the connectivity between teachers and technology. This is a synthesis of “World Libraries”, Diigo, and Blooms taxonomy (which might be the organizational way in which I might discuss different applications)

To start might a question on why do we need to connect with technology?

What the BC ed plan is expecting teachers to do, and encouraging?

What steps might the school take to implement technology in the school.