{"id":1,"date":"2012-10-20T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-10-21T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T13:48:18","slug":"thoughtsandreflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/ruthmcarthur\/2012\/10\/20\/thoughtsandreflections\/","title":{"rendered":"And so it begins… Cohort 21 Thoughts and Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Riding my bike away from The York School yesterday, I was mulling over exactly what I had signed up to be a part of for the coming school year. A year long PD involving teachers from every department from schools across the CIS<\/a> is both exciting but also overwhelming at the same time. Coming away from my morning, I realized that I had not experienced a PD morning like this before, because I was not leaving the forum behind at the end of the day, but this was now the start of a continuous and openly reflective year.<\/p>\n

One my of PD Cohort 21 pals, Melody Russell<\/a> from the Bayview Glen School has summarized the new tools that we were introduced to throughout the day. Her blog post here<\/a>\u00a0has an explanation for each and the link to the associated sites. One of these tools, twitter, was my hill for the morning. Being apart of the “millennial” generation, I was surprised to feel like my mother on a computer.\u00a0Overwhelmed\u00a0with lists, hash-tages and symbols that I thought I knew about. I have now set small goals to open my twitter once a week. This process also made me realize that I can’t assume that my students are any more computer savvy than me. Just because I would rather have ICQ’ed someone than phone them in high school doesn’t mean that I have an\u00a0innate\u00a0ability to retweet and cause a trend in the twitter-verse.<\/p>\n

Personally, I am very excited about this blog. As a previous international teacher, I became used to\u00a0scouring\u00a0the internet to find teachers and blogs that would answer my questions and provide inspiration when I was the only math teacher in the school. I have always wanted to be apart of the conversation, rather than an observer and so I hope that this will be my launching pad to share my ideas, gain peer critique and open my eyes to new possibilities.<\/p>\n

So here I am raising my coffee mug to a year of personal growth and learning through technology. I look forward to sharing my ideas here in this medium and hearing any suggestions you may have through the comment boxes or at my twitter account (@mcarthur_r). Now, I’m off to walk a dog and disconnect myself from the online world. No Twitter-verse can beat a fall day and great colours #Sundaymorning.<\/p>\n

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Nothing beats a fall walk through Toronto.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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