Gerry Swan
@gmswan3 active 1 year, 9 months ago-
Gerry Swan posted an update: 1 year, 10 months ago
For those of you interested, I have set up a demo account on our college of ed e-portfolio. username is flash and the password is 1234. Log in as a teaching associate. Someone expressed some concern over the flow and teacher/student friendliness. I would love to talk with them about their concerns. The only way you make something better is through…[Read more]
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Gerry Swan posted a new activity comment: 2 years, 8 months ago
In reply to: Matthew Constant posted an update in the group Technology Leadership Lab: I’m wondering what everyone’s impressions of the day(s) was/were. Did we get a sense that technology is truly integral and a […] ViewI think throwing up some use vignettes and videos would be a great way to focus conversation Matthew. My teaching experience was in a 1:1 school in the late 90′s. While the tools have grown leaps and bounds since then, most technology integration lags behind a lot of the stuff we were doing 12 years ago because of the lack of guidance. Along with…[Read more]
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Gerry Swan posted a new activity comment: 2 years, 8 months ago
In reply to: Matthew Constant posted an update in the group Technology Leadership Lab: I’m wondering what everyone’s impressions of the day(s) was/were. Did we get a sense that technology is truly integral and a […] ViewImpressions from the day. I did not hear any discussion of what learning experiences look like or what frameworks are going to be used to guide the use of existing technologies and the creation of new ones. While we can definitely do a better job, are any of us starting our classes by thinking I DON’T want to teach problem solving, collaboration…[Read more]
Completely agree with you Gerry. We’ve been doing 1:1 for 6 years now and while we have seen instruction change over time, some design parameters would have definitely gotten us farther faster. But, as you say, they don’t seem to exist. Could a site like this house some benchmark video instruction that begins to address the paradigm we hope…[Read more]
Yep, that kind of sharing resource is exactly why we are building this network. Those kinds of questions exist in all the content areas that our labs are working on and we all need sharing spaces for teachers and leaders to collaborate. There will be some kind of network, we are working with KDE right now do determine the best host for that.…[Read more]
I think throwing up some use vignettes and videos would be a great way to focus conversation Matthew. My teaching experience was in a 1:1 school in the late 90′s. While the tools have grown leaps and bounds since then, most technology integration lags behind a lot of the stuff we were doing 12 years ago because of the lack of guidance. Along with…[Read more]