Revisit Of My Personal Learning Goals

Since the beginning of the year I have been working diligently reading my course assigned readings. I started my personal Professional Learning Network and I have seriously been inundated with new information, ideas, and opinions. It has been an interesting journey. For example, who would have thought I would actually create and use a blog to document my reflections. I have had a twitter account (@Mrsdeejay12) for several years but it was mostly just another icon on my phone. I went in and started following people I thought were posting great, innovative educational links or thoughts. I have used some of the information or links from tweets in my lesson plans. I started using Google+ (mrsdeidrajohnson) and found it great to keep track of emerging educational tools. I think my courses are helping me achieve my learning goal. At the beginning, in my initial blog I listed two learning goals and have been working progressively since that time to meet those goals.

I am seeing growth in my integration of technology in my lessons. I have been known to keep the new things in the closet because I did not want to look “slow” in front of my kids. I decided to take some out and play around with them. To my surprise, instead of mumbling when I would mess up, they actually guided me through the process of using my slate in class and showed me different things on my Prometheans board. It was almost a case of who is teaching who in the class. I know my competency level is low with some technology, but by challenging my students and showing them that no one has all the answers, they are more likely to try.