Personal Technology Project

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 PERSONAL TECHNOLOGY PROJECT

Learning outcomes

  1. Understand the various roles and responsibilities of teachers in K-12 schools.
  2. Learn technologies for teaching effectively in your content area.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Begin by watching this video, which introduces this unit.

As mentioned in the video, a teacher has a variety of roles and responsibilities that are important to be effective in helping students learn and grow. Technology, when used appropriately, can help teachers be more effective and work more efficiently in many aspects of their job.

The purpose of this unit is to give you the opportunity to learn about a few new technologies that can help you fulfill these roles. While you may not know much about these roles yet, hopefully you have some idea of what roles you are interested in, or what roles you may need additional work with.

WHAT TECHNOLOGIES WILL HELP ME IN MY TEACHING?

If you aren’t sure which technologies will be most helpful to you as a teacher, here are some ideas.

  1. Ask K-12 teachers that you know
  2. Look on the internet for ideas from other teachers. There are many great educational blogs dedicated to each subject area. These are a few ideas to get you started.
  3. Consider the most difficult things for students to learn in your subject area, and consider what technologies may help in this specific area.

assignments

  1. Complete the Personal Technology Project.
  2. Share your project on the PTP discussion board.