My growth as a student has coincided with my growth as an educational technology leader.
One big focus of mine is taking the skills I have learned in the ISDT program and applied them as much as possible to my everyday role.
Interactive Panel Training Data Analysis
This data analysis was done in preparation for a face to face training to provide teachers and staff with more tools to use the interactive panel that is located in their classrooms. This pre-assessment helps me understand the needs of the learners and formulate groups based on prior knowledge. This helps ensure that the training will be beneficial for all involved regardless of skill level.
The goal is to create a training opportunity where 100% of the attendants can learn new ways to utilize technology already in their classroom to promote student learning. In order to achieve this goal proper organizing of the learning groups must be done first. The data collected helps provide that information and create an environment where everyone is on the same learning level, and the training goals are appropriate for their level.
Take the “Tech” Out of Ed Tech
When the word Technology is in your job title you will inevitably be asked to fix a printer, crawl under desks to see if you can diagnose a problem, and be constantly asked “can you make the wifi faster?” no matter what your specialty is. This is why when I was asked to define the field that I work in, I chose to purposely omit the word technology. This is something I am incredibly passionate about, and a practice that I believe would be good for educational technology departments everywhere. My goal was to fine-tune this submission with the goal of ultimately getting it published. However, as you can see the date on is March 4, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic changed my professional life drastically a little over a week later, and I have not been able to return to work on this paper. My goal is to return to it in the coming months.
Defining Leadership
Creating a “Legacy of Leadership” is important in an organization because it means that everyone can lead and everyone is a part of the decision making process. A leader’s role is to not only lead, but to grow the people around them. That is something that all effective leaders strive to accomplish within the everyday workings of their organization. In this presentation I go through different types of leadership, and how I have learned from my experience as a leader in technology and in education as a whole.
Network Access Application Proposal
One of the biggest challenges that schools faced during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic was providing much needed network access to students who were participating in remote learning environments. Many students across the state did not previously have internet connectivity at their homes, and schools scrambled to figure out the best way to get it to them.
The easiest answer to this problem is allowing them to safely tap in to a school district’s internet connection. School districts have high speed connections readily available, much of which was going completely unused at the beginning of the pandemic. In a perfect world, someone would develop an app that would be able to tunnel into a school’s network and provide safe, reliable, and fast filtered internet connections to students at home.