Quick Notes:
- ICT Educator links on PENT ICT Blog
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/
- Microsoft or Google fellowship/specializations
- GeoGuessr activity (great for clues, critical thinking, visual observations, sense-making)
- What3Words
- MapChart
- Google Maps - use layers to create pins, video, image, file attachments, etc.
Today's Reflection: What do I want to specialize in?
Though this is only my 3rd year in the PENT program, I am on track to graduate next year so I have spent a lot of time considering what subject areas I want to specialize in. Music and Science are at the top of my list, but I also know the importance of being tech savvy. Though I am fairly proficient with computers, I have heard of many teachers or professors pursuing fellowships with Google or Microsoft. In fact, I first heard of this through our Teacher Identity professor, Devon Caldwell. As part of her Microsoft fellowship, she has been able to travel all around the world giving presentations on the advantages of using Microsoft programs in the classroom. She showed us many examples of what she used in her classes, and even for a Kindergarten setting she had a wide variety of applications for tech in the classroom. The one that stood out to me most was an Inquiry Project about horses that eventually snowballed into her Kinder class creating and selling their artwork to raise funds for a small island filled with wild horses. Even at such a young age there can be so many new connections made through the use of technology and as teachers, we need to feel competent using computers in order to feel confident teaching our students.
Devon was one of my first students when I started teaching ICT for BU. She has done very well!
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