Empower educators to exercise professional agency, build teacher leadership skills and pursue personalized professional learning.
Qiran-Chen-Old-School-_-New-SchoolBeing an education leader comes with problems and issues. Sometimes I asked myself. Is this course of teaching teachers using technology Justifiable? Ethical? Important? Hypocritical? I tried to give a perfect answer, but the process is not easy at all. The answer is still in my mind. In the first week of designing this project, I can only develop positive ideas, thinking all the technology and applications are used for the greater good. However, as we went deep into this course, the answer was redefined in my mind. Everything has a flip side, and we can not have our view overshadowed by the trivial but consider thoroughly. Fortunately, ISTE standard 3a provided me with the direction and led me onto the right track.
Now I realized those defines are for us to solve in future work and study. Whether you are a student, an educational technologist, or a teacher, you should consider justice, ethics, and a fair mind. If you don’t, you might not be successful in the field of digital teaching and learning. In the EDIT 605 course, Professor Lauren kept reminding us of the importance of being fair and justified while implementing classroom applications. The learning process also helped me discover my critical-think strategy and problem-solving ability.
As I mentioned above, the learning experience also formed my inquiry question, which is, “How do educators know they are ready to embrace technology in the learning environment?” I will go deep into this question and develop my way to solve it in future studies.
Reference
BC’s Digital Literacy Framework. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://digital.gov.bc.ca/digital-framework
ISTE Standards for Educators. ISTE. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.iste.org/standards/iste-standards-for-education-leaders
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