Oct 28 2007
Creativity and Technology
This afternoon I am going to venture into a world I have not delved into in a long time. I will be teaching teachers! I will be sharing a passion that I have recently acquired in hopes of turning others into eager learners. I am a presenter at the Superintendent’s Conference Day for Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES. The title of my presentation is CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY.
This is the outline of the presentation:
Intoduction: Greetings and Introductions. Partiscipants answer question verbally: Why did you sign up for this session and what do you expect to get out of it?
Presentor: The objective of this presentation is to allow you to expand your virtual vistas and gain access to a global educational community comprised of teachers, students, parents, administrators and citizens. A glimpse into this world will broaden your professional horizons, inform your teaching practices and allow you to have meaningful conversations with students about the world they are facing. This is learning to teach the 21st century learner. This presentation will completely blur the lines between General and Special Education Teacher challenges. We are all in this together. Unless we teachers take on the challenges of teaching in this “Brave New World” where we will shore up our own technological inadequacies, students will not be exposed to skills and learning that they need in order for them and this nation to be competitive. It is not only our professional responsibilty to adopt technology in our classrooms but it is our civic responsibily to ensure that America continiues to be a force in the highly competitive and technological world we are living in. We can only do this if we ourselves are poised in the classroom to teach and learn simultaneously with students.
At the end of this presentation you will be able to :
1. Access the presenters blog. Post 1 comment to this blog
2. Open your own blog. Post an introduction
References:
Emerging Technologies - Source: Michigan Dept of Education
Podcast - Sir Ken Robinson Creativity in Education. Source: TED TALKS
Edublogs.com -Free edublogs
A virtual tour of Edublogs
Follow up: Tapped IN - Another vitual resource for educators. User Friendly and has a Receptionist.
Conclusion: Classroom uses of Weblogs. Forming a class community of bloggers. Presenter will post to each partiscipants blog and will follow up in the the next three months through posted comments. A follow up session will be entertained for the next Superintendents Conference Day in 2008. Via blog rolls the presenter will mderate professional commentary/discussions in order to ensure that a community of active bloggers is supported within the instuctional programs division of Erie 2-CC-BOCES.
Credits: High Schools New Face Conf. Ellicottville, 2007.
Teachers: Of Alternative and Special Education, Hewes Center, Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES
Supervisors: Christine Burdick, Tim Lasky, Barb Siemaszko and Dan Pierce
To ALL the teacher partiscipants in the Presentation above who learnt despite the failure of the internet when it went down due to a failure at the WNYRIC.
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Una,
I have successfully located your blog and will be reading and responding. Congratulations for your forward thinking and highlighting the work of Alternative Education.
As I travel around to other schools in my position as a supervisor for St. Bonaventure University, I marvel in retrospect how hard Alt Ed and Spec Ed teachers and administrators work. The work that is done before the teaching begins is staggering. I only hope that I can inspire some of my students to search for jobs in Alternative Education and Special Education. The work is hard and frustrating, but rewarding.
Keep up the good work and I will be reading to find good ideas from you and your associates.
Dr. Paula Kenneson
St. Bonaventure University