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Category: Professionalism

Cultivate a culture of professionalism by demonstrating professional standards, including the Professional Standards for BC Educators

October 7th, 2019

Today our guest speaker was Jesse Miller from Mediated Reality. Millers talk was very engaging and interesting I learned a lot. He focused on the new generation of education and technology including social media. Miller discussed the culture surrounding technology. Teachers in todays area need to be more engaging to stop students from checking their phones. Miller used a great example of how children don’t pick up there phone and start texting while playing a sport and teachers need to help create that same mentality at school (unless it is being used as a ressource). Technology is growing in our lives and his job is to inform people on how to better use our devices. He explains the importance of consent, privacy and security. He also encouraged us to use devices in the classroom safely. A couple fun facts we learned were that wifi servers can see everything you are doing on your device. I also learned that the advertisements that come up on social media have to do with what websites are being searched on your server. As a future teacher I learned how much my online identity matters. Due to the generation I grew up in most of my life is on the internet. Teachers must not share student information and images without consent. Teachers also need to make sure they are not posting images online that may lead a parent to believe they shouldn’t be teaching their child. An example pictures with drugs and alcohol. This may seem like common sense but sometimes common sense isn’t so common and it is important we are learning inappropriate vs appropriate content. As soon as he gave his presentation I went on my Instagram and made it private and luckily I had no photos I had to delete but I checked just in case. Teachers need to understand the consequences of posting inappropriate content as there have been many instances where teachers were fired due to social media. Miller had us look up #teacherlife #teacherproblems and #teacherfiered the results were inappropriate photos posted by teachers that lead to sever consequences. I now have a greater awareness in regards to what constitutes as personal information and public information. I also learned we need to be asking for consent more then we do when posting photos. I will be sure to post responsibly and use technology in a safe way.
Check out this Ted Talk by Jesse Millar about sharing in the digital world.

 

September 23rd, 2019

Today we learned how to use twitter as an asset to help us follow teachers and find out what is going on in the different school districts. I got twitter for the first time to see what other educators are doing and keep up with bc teacher issues. The class was introduced to tweetdeck a platform that lets one see the hashtags you follow. I started following various education hashtags. Examples include #bclearns, #sd61learn, and #sd63learn
I am excited to learn the ins and outs and am grateful we were provided with some ideas of who to follow in class. I was taught that for safety and privacy reasons we shouldn’t add our birthdays ect.https://twitter.com I have been introduced to Trello with is an amazing website where teachers can view students progression. It allows teachers to view what students are working on in a private way. This allows privacy between student and teacher without other classmates viewing. We are using Trello to organize our ideas for our free inquiry and tech inquiry project it is very user-friendly. https://www.trello.com  We also talked Open Educational Resources that are shared online.

September 16th, 2019

I am not very good with technology and was a little worried when told we needed to make website. However, it was easier then expected I set up my blog with the instructions on the web page: http://opened.ca I leaned how to choose a theme create categories to post under and create posts. We have been focusing on FIPPA (Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act). Today during class I learned how to find pictures online that I am able to use without copywriting. I usually use Creative Commons to find my photos https://creativecommons.org and I furthered my knowledge today. I also learned about some new websites such as Unsplash. I learned how to post photos to my website by saving them to my computer and then crediting the source before posting. I look forward to learning more about how to improve my blog and how to familiarize myself with technology that I can use when teaching.

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