The Big Picture of Technology in SchoolsBefore I started the graphic I made a list, as the book said. My original thought for the design was to make bullets of each resource and practice, but I realized this would take up way to much space. I think a website would be a better place for that type of design.
As I was making this graphic, the first thing I focused on was the color scheme I wanted. I tried to mimic the colors of the book cover. The arrows in my graphic also come from the book cover. In hindsight, I should have done a rough outline sketch on paper. I found myself rearranging a few times. (I did find a shortcut, and maybe everyone already knew, but you can select more than one element at once and move them as a chunk.) I heard my junior high technology teacher echoing in my head too, “Stuff before Fluff.” I always had a hard time with that and I find I still do. I like things to be pretty as I am working and it makes things take much longer than they should. I need to work on getting my main ideas down first then designing how something will look. I split my resources into Three major categories, Hardware, Software, and People. Then I split Software into a few subcategories: Tools and LMS’s. This section has a lot going on. There are so many great resources. Hardware focuses on the physical aspects that are needed, computers and WiFi and Networks. Software focuses on the plethora of tools and great materials that are available. People are what I find to be the most important resource. We talk and share what we know and what we have learned through our unique experiences with technology. Collaboration seems to be an overlying theme of this course, we need to talk to others in order to make our learning meaningful and impactful in our schools. For the Teaching Approaches section, I thought about the different teachers that I have had in the past and what they did to emphasize technology and use it the best way they knew how. When I was working on the specific practices section, I tried to think about the most valuable projects I have done in the past. Valuable in terms of what I enjoyed and what was challenging but the benefit was worth it. The Technology in Schools section is my major take away from the book. Have a vision, make a plan, find the resources to implement the plan and then provide support for those the plan impacts.
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