Life Long Learning Habits:
The hardest for me will be to incorporate play. I
don't mean I'm one of those people who can't have fun; however, I don't allow
it to saturate my current profession as much as I would like it to in my future
teaching profession. I think, the nature of responsibility and
accountability in being a military officer takes that out of our hands at
times. I do desire and have a need to develop that infectious joy that so
many in the teaching profession have. I've seen that "play" make others want to be better
lifelong learners themselves. Developing that passionate play is certainly a
personal milestone I have to accomplish during this program.
Easiest for me:
Use of Technology. I enjoy exploring what
technology brings to anything. Whether, for
convenience, effectiveness or pleasure computers, phones, and tablets are
constantly getting better and bringing more capable tools into our lives.
I feel like discovering that capability
is, for our generation, analogous to The Race to the Moon for the Greatest
Generation. The only difference is, this race is not taking place at
governmental level. It’s taking place in millions of people’s homes
and offices. To say it plainly, I am excited about what technology will bring
into the classroom, and I’m certain that using it will be just as exciting.
Based on my limited knowledge of 2.0 web apps. I believe
having a good knowledge base of such tools is crucial to understanding how the
students of the future will access, view, and digest information during the
learning process. Anyone receiving training or education on any topic
within the last ten years understands the effectiveness of today's
technological training and teaching aids. Ease of access to accurate and
well-prepared information is making these modes of
instruction irreplaceable. Especially, when
the aptitude and eagerness to use such tools continues to
expand to younger and younger students. Personally, I think understanding
2.0 will not only enhance, but will become critical to a teacher's ability to
communicate with the students of the future; and, if, as a teacher, one doesn't
understand how to leverage these tools you will not be able to function in
tomorrow's education system.
As far as my experience up to this point, I am still a beginner
and looking forward to all I have to learn.
Setting up the Blog was very easy: however, being a new MAC user
has its own interesting learning curve I most overcome. Being on the MAC,
made finding icons and performing functions slower, but my goal is to not allow
that to interfere with my excitement and eagerness to learn.
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