{"id":102,"date":"2018-10-09T02:37:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/?p=102"},"modified":"2018-10-09T02:58:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T02:58:20","slug":"a-funny-thing-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/2018\/10\/09\/a-funny-thing-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"A funny thing happened …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… after my year as a ‘Cohorter’.\u00a0 I began to see myself differently.\u00a0 I began to believe that I could do things.\u00a0 Crazy, RIDICULOUS things.\u00a0 \u00a0I began Cohort21 last fall with a sense of trepidation; I did not consider myself tech-savvy, I didn’t know what a ‘tweet deck’ was or how to use Google Forms … but I was curious.\u00a0 A little encouragement from @lmcbeth<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and I decided to take the plunge – into a community that as @gvogt<\/a>\">@gvogt<\/a><\/span>\u00a0recently posited (and I agree) is “the gold standard of a supporting culture”.\u00a0 My journey of the last year is documented in this blog up to the end of last spring; and that’s when a funny thing happened.\u00a0 I was asked if I would join a team of tech-integrators to provide innovation support for teachers at my school.\u00a0 “But I don’t know how to code!” I exclaimed!\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 I went home.\u00a0 I told my husband.\u00a0 He laughed. I thought about it.<\/p>\n

I thought about it some more.\u00a0 I asked questions. I wanted to do it.\u00a0 I REALLY wanted to do it and I wasn’t even scared!\u00a0 That is what I believe the leaders of this experience would call ‘The Cohort Effect’.\u00a0 I have read much about Carol Dweck’s ‘Growth Mindset’<\/em> and have challenged myself to ensure that I helped my students develop this type of approach to their learning; but until I became part of Cohort 21, I’m not sure that I consciously challenged myself to adopt this mindset.\u00a0 So, I said yes.\u00a0 And now, I am as some unknown person once told me: “building the plane in the air”. This is a very foreign way to approach teaching for me, but I am learning that ‘just-in-time’ knowledge and skills delivery may be a good approach to teaching and learning in the 21st century.<\/p>\n

Over the summer I undertook training in Design Thinking at the Nueva School in San Mateo California, with a great group of educators – many of who were Computer Science teachers.\u00a0 It was in Palo Alto that I snapped the feature image for this post at the ‘Institute for the Future’\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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It did seem ridculous to me at first that I should be asked join a team of tech-savvy teachers in a support role.\u00a0 But the more I thought about it, the less ridiculous it seemed.\u00a0 Strategically, we are moving towards a more ‘innovative’ teaching and learning environment at Branksome Hall, and when I think about how\u00a0George Couros (Educator, author and consultant) defines innovation as \u201ca way of thinking that creates something new and better”\u00a0 \u00a0and the idea that it is borne out of \u201cinvention” (something totally new) or \u201citeration\u201d ( a change of something that already exists) I have come to realize that innovation is a multi-faceted approach to teaching and learning, and furthermore something that under this definition, I am actually extremely passionate about.\u00a0 Much of my action plan this year will center around exploring the application of this definition to my work in the classroom and as a member of our newly minted ‘Innovation Support Team’.<\/p>\n

I am beyond excited about continuing my Cohort 21 adventure this year in the role of Coach; but I also value my simultaneous role of learner and look forward to the many conversations ahead and the destinations that are as yet blissfully unknown.\u00a0 Onwards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… after my year as a ‘Cohorter’.\u00a0 I began to see myself differently.\u00a0 I began to believe that I could do things.\u00a0 Crazy, RIDICULOUS things.\u00a0 \u00a0I began Cohort21 last fall with a sense of trepidation; I did not consider myself tech-savvy, I didn’t know what a ‘tweet deck’ was or how to use Google Forms … Continue reading “A funny thing happened …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,7],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-design-thinking","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/allisoncampbellrogers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}