PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Presenter: Lucresa Anderson
Why should one join a professional organization?
One should join a professional organization to see how other professionals perform or carry out their work, and to learn different strategies employed. With technology, we can learn from professionals and experts, the creativity and framework used to enhance educational success, and how to transform learning into technology.
What can a teacher expect to learn from these professional organizations?
A teacher can learn from these organizations after joining by attending conferences which can be face-to-face collaboration to deepen our connection with the Professional Learning Network. (Fingal, 2023). Collaboration is enhance through educators sharing ideas.
How I am benefited from the ISTE association?
I will benefit from the ISTE association by learning and creating ways to improve my instruction through the various technology tools. As a professional learning community, it allows me to build strong and lasting relationships with other professionals and to share new ideas.
ISTE resources
Resource 1: Before Using School Technology, Know Your Edtech Purpose by Scott McLeod - September 6, 2022
What can a teacher expect to learn from this resource?
A teacher will learn how to overcome roadblocks that prevent deep learning and also help the teacher to develop creativity and achieve success in a technology-infused global transformation (McLeod (2022).
Before Using School Technology, Know Your Edtech Purpose by Scott McLeod - September 6, 2022 Cont’d
How does this resource help me to serve my students?
The resource will help me serve my students to be powerful and active learners who display their learning in various ways. They will become powerful thinkers, problem solvers, technology designers, and collaborators (McLeod 2022).
What student population would benefit the most?
The student population who would benefit most is the lower-level students.
Resource 2: 4 Innovative Trends in K-12 Education by Liz Miller Lee - April 28, 2022
What can a teacher expect to learn from it?
4 Innovative Trends in K-12 Education by Liz Miller Lee Cont’d
How does this resource help you to serve your students?
The students will all have access to the information given, and they will develop the skills necessary to help them to flourish in the ever-changing world today.
What student population would benefit the most?
The student population to benefit the most is online students, K-12
Resource 3: 30+ Tools for diverse learners
What can a teacher expect to learn from it?
A teacher can create options to promote various means of collaboration, and learning engagement. The teacher can have options to use various technology tools to meet the needs of students with different learning disability.
30+ Tools for diverse learners Cont’d
How does this resource help me to serve my students?
Students will be more engaged in employing the various technology tools to assist in learning. Assistive technology will help students with disability to hear the sounds of words and also display text size for students’ learning. For technology tools with built in dictation features, will speak the answers students would instead write on a keyboard.
What student population would benefit the most?
The student population I see benefiting the most is students with disability and special needs.
Recent ISTE EdTech Conference
Blended Learning in 90 days. The presenters were Jeff Kish and Marcia Kish. They spoke about ways to set up a true blended learning classroom in 90 days. The audience was coaches and teachers at an intermediate level. The technology devices used are laptops, Chromebook, Macs, PC, Tablets, Android, iOS, Windows, and smartphones. The targeted school population is PK - 12 and the subject area is Language arts and Math.
Recent ISTE EdTech Conference Cont’d
They encourage educators to team with other educators to create a genuine learning experience with the use of technology. That is to create and cause the learning experience to be personalized which promotes independent learning and helps increase independent learning. It also cultivates a culture where students are encouraged to take ownership of their learning.
2 Sessions I would have been interested in attending, and why?
I would be interested in attending the Blended Learning in 90 days conference as I want to use technology tools to create a genuine learning experience. I would learn ways for students to be independent learners and how to take ownership of their learning.
I would also, be interested in attending the conference, Encourage collaboration and Problem-Solving with Digital Breakout Games. This will help students to use technology to have fun in learning by the use of Google forms and google sites where they collaborate with other students regarding problem-solving and they will nurture content knowledge development.
References
McLeod, S., (2022) Before using school technology, know your edtech purpose. International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
Lee, L. M., (2022). 4 Innovative trends in K-12 education.International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).
Perez, L., Grant, K., (2022). 30+ tools for diverse learners. International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).