Teachers have a long list of tasks, from classroom
management, formative and summative grading, communicating with staff and
parents, attending meetings, coaching a team or two, and the list continues. So
it is safe to say that our time is extremely valuable. Why spend it reinventing
the wheel?
When it comes to lesson planning, reinventing the wheel is something
that teachers luckily do not always have to do. This is one of the main points
I took from Dean Shareskie’s skype lecture to our “Internet for Educators,”
class. As teachers, we can work collaboratively through the sharing of
resources and ideas so that we don’t always have to reinvent the wheel.
Thanks
to the internet, we can work with teachers not only in our school, but in our
division, province, country and our world. The internet is a great tool to
connect with people and resources, if you know how to use it and are willing to
put yourself out there. This is especially helpful for new teachers who without
the internet, would likely have to start everything brand new. I enjoyed
learning from Dean and look forward to learning more in class about using the
internet to improve my teaching and my students’ learning. -T
Agreed. The internet has been a major resource for teachers over the last decade, and it only gets better. The ability to share with others in a school, or even division is amazing, but being able to share across the entire country is just phenomenal. It is also incredibly hard to come up with something entirely new, multiple times every day. We do not always have to use someone else's idea entirely, but having it as a starting point is more than one can ask for. Also, welcome to the blogger-verse, I am a newbie to it as well.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how teacher's did it all before the internet! There are so many amazing resources out there and we should all take advantage of it! I think it is important to share our own resources as well though.
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