This week’s class we had the privilege of having guest speaker: Jesse Miller  present to us his work on Technology and Education. Jesse is a Technology Thought-Leader and his work can be found on his website: Jesse Miller Website

This was such an interesting class! Jesse has so much experience with incorporating technology into the classroom as well as navigating some challenges with the changing ways of tech. He has worked in various school districts helping with policy and curriculum for students and he was a great resource for us as future educators. 

I think an interesting topic that he brought up that we haven’t talked about yet was the personal technology use as teachers. As educators we have a few potential audiences of our technology use – the public, parents, co-workers and students. Any social media use of educators will be viewed by these potential audiences – Jesse mentioned that essentially educators are held to a different standard! 

Along with the many district policies of technology use there are also standards all-around for educators to be professionals at all points of their lives – not only while in public but also digitally in their private lives. I could tell that this idea wasn’t common for some of my cohort and it was a good wake-up call for us as prospective teachers. 

Jesse’s talk felt like a great introduction to the ever-changing world of technology in the schools and the importance of districts to be looking and funding this. 

For more information – Check out Jesse’s Ted Talk

 

Julia