Post date: Sep 6, 2014 5:51:41 AM
As I have been completing the Force Field Analysis and Logic Model assignments, I have been honing in on what I pursue in my action research. I really want to focus on students and what they will be doing but I know that in order to get students using technology I must also get their teachers to embrace some new uses for technology in their lessons. Today I spoke to many students at my school about what they do with technology. I am in the middle of presenting Digital Citizenship to all of the students of my school (over 1200 of them!). I am keeping the groups small so more of their voices can be heard in the discussions. They know a lot about social media....too much? They know how to look something up on the internet. But there is so much more they could be doing! This is where I want to go. I want to get them as excited about learning with technology as their tool for learning as they are excited about using social media. I even want them to use that social media to help them with that learning. Hopefully, with all of that will come increased motivation for learning. I am so excited to have been given the opportunity at my school to do such work.