I spent the past few days teaching others how to use their SMART Boards while a colleague led the discussions on how to integrate them into their curricula. HOW AMAZING! Watching people walk in with an "I can't do this" attitude and then see them leave with a "I can't wait to start playing with this stuff" attitude made my effort completely worthwhile.
YouTube and TeacherTube are currently in my sight as I search for some videos to use at the beginning of the year. Having run across some of my favorites - "Did You Know" by Karl Fisch and "Pay Attention" by jdst4 got me thinking about how I've come a very long way in the past few years. Yeah, I liked using videos and graphing calculators in class but now I like to also use other interactive tools like Qwizdom, SMARTboards, online research, techSteps, and my favorite tool, the PBL unit. Four years ago, I thought I was doing inquiry learning, now I realize that I wasn't, and still have a way to go to get there.
On this spectrum of 21st Century teaching, I'm pleased that I'm heading toward the "seamless integration" end and away from the no-integration end. My question for you: where are you?
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