I have still been too shy with my posts here on the blog and elsewhere as is obvious to the few people who may have been reading along.\u00a0 I am finding that posting \u2013 the act of putting your ideas out there into the world requires two things, a want for an audience and a desire for your message to be seen in the printed word \u2013 is not at all natural for me.\u00a0 Like any other person I want my message to come across clearly and in order to make that happen I must know what my message is.\u00a0 I have jumped in my posts from being excited to start in an extended professional development session to asking questions of technology and its role in our classrooms and along the way have tried many new things that have hopefully helped students get more out of their education.<\/p>\n
I have also had the action plan that we need, not just for Cohort21 but for our everyday approaches to teaching, rolling around in my head without extreme articulation of it.\u00a0 I like to be explicit and have yet to post in any uncertain terms what my action plan is here on this blog.\u00a0 I have settled on one but before I write it below I must say I have grown again a great appreciation for students that are told to express themselves when they aren\u2019t sure who they are yet.\u00a0 Self-discovery takes a bit of time and I never figured on working on it this long!<\/p>\n
My action plan has become and still is trying to assess what types of technology help students both access and remember the skills, concepts and content that are driving their lessons in classrooms.\u00a0 I started with using sharing platforms so that students could see what the other students are doing and draw from it towards their own learning.\u00a0 We have used Google docs and Padlet so far in our class. \u00a0A visual idea of my action plan can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I know this is just scratching the surface of shareware and types of platforms students can interact with but it is a start nonetheless.\u00a0 I have seen greater cooperation and teamwork in class but the critical question still remains; did they learn something they can retain more by using the technology we used?<\/p>\n . . . I am still working on that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have still been too shy with my posts here on the blog and elsewhere as is obvious to the few people who may have been reading along.\u00a0 I am finding that posting \u2013 the act of putting your ideas out there into the world requires two things, a want for an audience and a … Continue reading “Self-discovery through Technology”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/bradbohte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}