It's 2000, I'm sitting in my parent's walk-in closet in our tiny apartment, where we kept the computer. I start up the computer and hear, Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcch*ding*ding*ding* (I've included a youtube video if you need a reminder on what dial-up sounds like).
The internet was just emerging! I felt like the luckiest person to have internet in my house. I don't remember doing much with it, but I do remember that sound and the simple appearance. Just to think that it was Web 1.0 that I was experiencing. Now I get to experience Web 2.0 and even Web 3.0! As much as it is great to experience Web 3.0, I would like Facebook to stop promoting items I don't need... But wait maybe that's Web 4.0? Before I give myself a headache, maybe I'll just stick to trying to understand Web 2.0 before I get into the others.
This week I attended a professional development workshop on The 4 Disciplines of Execution. While I sat in this workshop I immediately thought about this course. Before I get started on why EME6414 came to mind, let me give you a quick overview of what The 4 Disciplines of Execution are. Overview: It's basically promised that if you can adopt the 4 disciplines then you can produce breakthrough results! Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important Goal (WIG) Discipline 2: Act on Lead Measures Discipline 3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard (this is where it's going to all make sense). Discipline 4: Create a cadence of accountability In the workshop, they talked about the whirlwind. In the whirlwind, there is a lot of stuff going on, but not everything is important. This is where the WIG comes in. Finding your FOCUS. In order to do things well, you need to focus on two important tasks at a time. They shared this example. If Jimmy wants to learn how to tie his shoe, we need to create...
Saturday night... here I am writing my second blog post of the week. Everyone in my house is already sleeping soundly in their beds. This blog post is the only thing standing in my way of that... Tonight I read through, "Categorising teachers’ use of social media for their professional learning: A self-generating professional learning paradigm" To learn a little bit more about how teachers are using social media for their professional learning. I think especially with COVID we all saw how online resources really took off. Many teachers were having to come up with ways to teach online. Thankfully all the online resources it's created increased accessibility for teachers to go online and connect. The article suggests all the following social networking sites, " Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TeachersPayTeachers, Twitter, Google Plus provide environments to profile oneself and one's professional life, to express ideas, to share resources, and to connect with coll...
Social media in the classroom sounds great in theory, but I'm not sure if it's great. Personally, I haven't had success with it. This week I read, "Towards an understanding of social media use in the classroom: a literature review" by Antonie Van Den Beemt, Marieke Thurlings, and Myrthe Willems. The first line resonated with me. "Many teachers appear to struggle with the tension between possible pedagogical use and the tempting distraction of this technology."(Van Den Beemt et al., 2019) I struggle with the use because I see firsthand students being distracted by technology. Ever since COVID-19 students now use laptops in a class all the time. I'll walk around and see students off task. It's so hard when you have the internet at your fingertips. I think it has to do with the student's maturity level. For example, in this class, we are using social media in all sorts of ways. I don't find myself getting distracted, but if I tried this cl...
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