What did you learn from this course…about yourself, your technology and leadership skills, and your attitudes?
This course did teach me several things. I learned that I can figure out technology that is new to me. Teachers are not good at not being experts in everything, especially at the Elementary level. Usually we are the gods of all knowledge in the classroom, especially at Elementary. However, a tough pill to swollow is that we are not in the know on every topic that there is. We simply cannot be, especially where technology is discussed. We cannot know all there is to know even about the cell phones we hold in our hands daily; yet, we still think we should know everything about the technology used in our classes.
This course taught me that I am not to be the expert on everything. I do not have to know all about the technology I use in my own classroom even. I am to also continue to learn myself, alongside the students I teach. I am to be a student of technology as well as an educator of technology. My students may know how to work a program I do not; at that point, I must sit back and learn from their wealth of knowledge
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