This week I have been overloaded by the amount of new technology I have signed up for. Between the blog, and the reader, and the twitter, it's a lot to keep track of. I ended up with the twitter app for my phone so that it's one less thing I need to look at when I log on. But checking my twitter I found this tweet from @tomwhitby and was retweeted @teaching_music. It was: tomwhitby
Tech is only an Edu tool. In the hands of a believer it works well. In the hands of a doubter it crashes. When not used it does nothing. It tied in nicely to an article I found in my reader.It was from soyouwanttoteach.com titled Planting Seeds of Belief. The article was about getting different parties to believe in you when it comes to your teaching. You need to be able to convince your employer (the school district), your students, and most importantly, yourself, that you are capable of teaching students. You need to show everyone that you know what you're doing as far as teaching a subject. This goes double for technology. Not only do you have to be confident in the subject you are teaching, but you have to be confident with the technology you are teaching on. If you can believe that technology will help better teach your students then you can easily succeed in conveying all technology has to offer.
Anna, I really enjoyed the "Planting Seeds of Belief" article. I agree that it is extremely important to not only have the support and belief of the school district, students, etc, but to also believe in yourself as a teacher. If you are comfortable and knowledgeable in what you are teaching, I feel that you will do a much better job of conveying the subject matter to your students. Thanks for this link!
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