brian3. The tools and resources on the web must be applied to help students become productive digital citizens of their 21st century global digital society. What do you see as your role in preparing your students for their place in their world? What specifically will you do in your classroom to ensure that preparation? As a teacher, I feel that my responsibility is to teach students how to be productive members of society in whatever capacity they feel led to participate and work in. In order to work in most jobs, we have to be able to work with people. People are something that in most capacities we cannot avoid, no matter how hard we try. A doctor works with patients that are compliant and non-compliant. A lawyer works with criminals and innocent people. A janitor works with nice and difficult supervisors. A pharmacist works with helpful and selfish technicians. A contractor works with easily-pleased home-buyers and difficult-to-please home-buyers. Many jobs require us to work with people, so I believe that students need to be able to work with their peers, no matter if they like them or not. As an educator, I see myself showing students that no matter someone’s race, religious beliefs, hobbies, or politics we can come together for a common goal. Students need to know how to get along with someone who doesn’t think like them, act like them, or talk like them. Understanding how to use these opportunities to grow as a person is a large step in maturation for a child. As people in the 21st Century, learning how to work with people in person is often not good enough. In today’s world, students need to know how to work with people who are competent with new technology and with people who have a difficult time sending a text message. Learning how to meet someone where they are technologically can be helpful in improving people skills for later in life. I believe that through helping my students communicate in-person and online through collaboration, I will be teaching them how to 1) work with others who may or may not be like them and 2) how to use technology to work with others, whether they are well-versed in technology or not. To do this, I will incorporate online, asynchronous collaboration between students with varying “collaborators” in order to help them have experience in working with people who are different culturally and technologically. Here's my website
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Saiva Baker
7/15/2019 01:54:54 am
Great Job on your post. I always find enlightening and well written. I agree with what you said about preparing our students for society and the outside world. As students grow up, they will be working and interact in a diverse environment and they need to learn how to work in such places. Like you said, they need to learn how to work with people they do not like. I feel that group projects are a perfect place to allow students to learn such skills. In my future classrooms, I would sometimes let students pic there groups, but other times, I will pick it for them, sometimes putting them with people they usually don't associate with. With online collabrations becoming more prominent, it is perfect platform to start teaching them such skills. At the same time, I think it is just as important to have them work in groups face-to-face so that they can build those skills as well.
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Gary Lee
7/23/2019 12:56:46 pm
Brian,
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Brian LongHello! I'm a biology and chemistry teacher at Oak Grove High School in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I have a wife and a daughter, and I love to spend time with them. We go on adventures like hiking, kayaking, exploring, tree-climbing, and much more. I enjoy be apart of my church, hunting, fishing, playing the drums, Crossfit, and playing ultimate frisbee. I love teaching, and I love my students. Feel free to look around! |