Blog Post #13

This blog post assignment was to create your own assignment. We had to write about something that we have not had a chance to write about this semester. The technology world is ever changing, and teachers have to stay up to date on it all. I have included two articles and video on great tips for teachers to keep up with with the always changing technology.

5 Tips to Help Teachers Who Struggle with Technology

How Teacher Can Keep Up With Changes in Education

Tips for Teachers to Learn New Technology

In the first source,5 Tips to Helo Teachers Who Struggle with Technology, it listed five ways you can help teachers who struggle with technology. You, as a teacher, may learn how to use all the newest technology really fast. Other teachers may not learn as quickly, and might need your help. This articles shares tips on how to help other teachers. The first tip is to build a tech team. To do this, you will need to have a group of teachers or administrative staff that know how to work with technology. This group of people will be able to help troubleshoot any problems that some teachers may have when learning how to use the newest technology. The next tip is to scaffold effective professional development. What the tech team would need to do, is to educate the teachers on the new technology. After doing this, the tech team can give examples of how to teacher could use this technology in the classroom. The third tip is to make time. The teachers could meet or talk to their Personal Learning Network, to get their insight on the new technology. The teachers need to make time to really learn about the new technology, and research how other teachers might be using in their classroom. The fourth tip is to make the technology relevant. This goes with the earlier tips on how to make use of the technology in the classroom. The fifth tip is to encourage those teachers who might be struggling with the use of technology in the classroom.

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The second source,How Teachers Can Keep Up With Changes in Technology talks about how kids come to school so digitally savvy. This means teachers have to know the newest technology to keep up with their students. This world is coming to the point where students do not even know what a physical book is anymore. Everything is on a tablet, iPad or a computer. Teachers need to research the newest technology, on their own, to be able to really engage their class. It is the teachers responsibility to be a continuous learner.

The third source,Tips for Teachers Learning New Technology gives tips on how teachers can learn new technology. In this video Katie Knight says that teachers must always tinker with the new technology. She advises that every month take a new technology and play with it. Learn everything you can about that one technology. After you feel that you have learned all that you can about using it, then you can start incorporating it in your classroom.

I learned so much on how to keep up and help others keep up with the newest technology as a teacher. I will definitely take these tips with me as begin teaching. I think this was a great blog post assignment, because I got to research something that I think will help me down the road.