Chapter 1
Quote: "The New Culture of learning allows us to recognize, harness and institutionalize the ideas and requires a shift of our learning in education [...] We believe that this new culture of learning can augment learning in nearly every fasted of education and every state of life." The quote refers to the paradigm shift in education based on the 21st century skills and manifesting, which allows educators to cultivate critical thinkers and life long learners.
Question:
How can educators cultivate minds and ideas in the classroom by using technology to allow students to create questions about their own learning and ensure students use each other as resources?
Connection:
Based on Tony Wagners' seven survival skills of creativity and imagination are essential skills to create passion and play. In addition, students in the Masters' program have been allowed to develop their passion throughout the 20% project. This form of play can ignite further development of questioning and critical thinking by sharing information in Youtube or blogs. Therefore, play, questioning and imagination are spar of life learning.
Epiphany: The 'aha' moment was when it allowed students to be resources for each other. Once students become experts in a content area, then educators should allow student o further his deeper understanding of a topic by sharing it with his/her peers. The ability of play is being a form of freedom to act passionately in order to have a deeper understanding.
A Tale of Two Cultures- Chapter 2
Quote: "Boundaries are catalyst of innovations." As educators provides structural conditions conducive to individuals supporting, facilitating and promoting student innovativeness. The boundaries allows students become critical thinkers and organize their information in a process in order to solve real world problems.
Question: Teachers can create innovation through Project Based Learning and Genius hour, how can innovation become apart of the PLC process for adults in an Elementary school site?
Connection: Genius Hour and Project Based Learning are forms were students are surrounded by digital information to support, facilitate and promote individual innovativeness. Students are provided with a guiding questions and have various rules and expectations for the process and final presentation of the newly gained information. In addition, I have implemented Genius Hour in my class to harness and promote innovation, since it is a skill that is difficult to teach; I have allowed my students answer and share their findings with their peers others.
Epiphany:
As an educator, the implementation of Genius hour has provided a community of learners that are eager and wiling to be innovators. At first, the implementation of Genius Hour was a not planned thoroughly and spontaneously implemented to see if students would be open to the idea. The effects were positively accepted by all the students in the class. As a continued to add more structure and boundaries to the expectations, students on their own began to work collaboratively and effectively communicate with their peers, therefore, the 'aha moment' appeared as I reflected to the initial implementation of Genius Hour. And currently, continue to ignite the power of sharing knowledge in the class by adding time limitation, digital resources on Symbaloo and factual information applied to current learning in the classroom setting.
Embracing Change, Chapter 3
Quote: "No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man." Education and technology has evolved within the last ten years. The educational paradigm has changed from teacher carrying the cognitive load to providing students' with accountability in their own learning. In addition, technology has transformed from decade to decade and the recent knowledge of technology continues to evolve with the various advanced in Wikipipedia and iPhones.
Question: Technology continues to evolve in the past ten years, how can legislation ensure that school districts support and provide professional developments for educators to ensure they have relevant knowledge to the changes occurring in the 21st century?
Connection:
The chapter provided an acknowledgement of my hard work for the past two years. Embracing change allows educators to grown as an professional in education, therefore, I have embraced the "world of motion" by attending various technology conferences, gathering resources from educational Twitter chats and attending professional developments at the district level. Fortunately, Lakeside School District continues to provide various professional developments aligned to technology to support educators. The teachers on special assignment (TOSAs) continue to share their wealth of knowledge with tenure and novice teachers within the district.
Epiphany: Based on my practice and leader in my school site, I have created various Youtube tutorial for my colleagues at Riverview Elementary. I have been proactive and shared my knowledge of technology because in the end all students benefit from resources of technology.
Quote: "The New Culture of learning allows us to recognize, harness and institutionalize the ideas and requires a shift of our learning in education [...] We believe that this new culture of learning can augment learning in nearly every fasted of education and every state of life." The quote refers to the paradigm shift in education based on the 21st century skills and manifesting, which allows educators to cultivate critical thinkers and life long learners.
Question:
How can educators cultivate minds and ideas in the classroom by using technology to allow students to create questions about their own learning and ensure students use each other as resources?
Connection:
Based on Tony Wagners' seven survival skills of creativity and imagination are essential skills to create passion and play. In addition, students in the Masters' program have been allowed to develop their passion throughout the 20% project. This form of play can ignite further development of questioning and critical thinking by sharing information in Youtube or blogs. Therefore, play, questioning and imagination are spar of life learning.
Epiphany: The 'aha' moment was when it allowed students to be resources for each other. Once students become experts in a content area, then educators should allow student o further his deeper understanding of a topic by sharing it with his/her peers. The ability of play is being a form of freedom to act passionately in order to have a deeper understanding.
A Tale of Two Cultures- Chapter 2
Quote: "Boundaries are catalyst of innovations." As educators provides structural conditions conducive to individuals supporting, facilitating and promoting student innovativeness. The boundaries allows students become critical thinkers and organize their information in a process in order to solve real world problems.
Question: Teachers can create innovation through Project Based Learning and Genius hour, how can innovation become apart of the PLC process for adults in an Elementary school site?
Connection: Genius Hour and Project Based Learning are forms were students are surrounded by digital information to support, facilitate and promote individual innovativeness. Students are provided with a guiding questions and have various rules and expectations for the process and final presentation of the newly gained information. In addition, I have implemented Genius Hour in my class to harness and promote innovation, since it is a skill that is difficult to teach; I have allowed my students answer and share their findings with their peers others.
Epiphany:
As an educator, the implementation of Genius hour has provided a community of learners that are eager and wiling to be innovators. At first, the implementation of Genius Hour was a not planned thoroughly and spontaneously implemented to see if students would be open to the idea. The effects were positively accepted by all the students in the class. As a continued to add more structure and boundaries to the expectations, students on their own began to work collaboratively and effectively communicate with their peers, therefore, the 'aha moment' appeared as I reflected to the initial implementation of Genius Hour. And currently, continue to ignite the power of sharing knowledge in the class by adding time limitation, digital resources on Symbaloo and factual information applied to current learning in the classroom setting.
Embracing Change, Chapter 3
Quote: "No man steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man." Education and technology has evolved within the last ten years. The educational paradigm has changed from teacher carrying the cognitive load to providing students' with accountability in their own learning. In addition, technology has transformed from decade to decade and the recent knowledge of technology continues to evolve with the various advanced in Wikipipedia and iPhones.
Question: Technology continues to evolve in the past ten years, how can legislation ensure that school districts support and provide professional developments for educators to ensure they have relevant knowledge to the changes occurring in the 21st century?
Connection:
The chapter provided an acknowledgement of my hard work for the past two years. Embracing change allows educators to grown as an professional in education, therefore, I have embraced the "world of motion" by attending various technology conferences, gathering resources from educational Twitter chats and attending professional developments at the district level. Fortunately, Lakeside School District continues to provide various professional developments aligned to technology to support educators. The teachers on special assignment (TOSAs) continue to share their wealth of knowledge with tenure and novice teachers within the district.
Epiphany: Based on my practice and leader in my school site, I have created various Youtube tutorial for my colleagues at Riverview Elementary. I have been proactive and shared my knowledge of technology because in the end all students benefit from resources of technology.