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Standard 3

3. Excellence in Professional Practice

Educational Administrators promote an environment of professional learning and innovation that empowers educators to enhance student learning through the infusion of contemporary technologies and digital resources. Educational Administrators:

Administrators can't know everything and must be willing an able to allow others to brings new ideas to the table. By allowing others in the learning environment to seek out and stay abreast of new technology in different areas no one become overloaded and can best judge if something actually has merit or is it a way to spend money on nothing.

School Use

As an administrator I would make sure that everyone checks their e-mail account at least twice a day. There is still staff that check e-mail "whenever". Daily bulletins and updates will be sent digital only. I don't want staff members relaying messages to other staff members due to laziness.

I will set up the e-mails to alert me to when each message is open and randomly I will include items in certain e-mails that would let me know if the message was actually read. The reader would have to respond to certain things that would be unique only to them.

Digital Natives

Not everyone agrees with the language and underlying assumptions of the digital native. There is an over whelming tendency to equate technology with intelligence.

It suggests fluidity with technology that not all children and young adults have, and a corresponding awkwardness with technology that not all older adults have. As a teacher who works with computer education everyday I see first hand the number of students that can text message but can not write a decent paragraph in standard English. Not all my students know what or how to blog or use a message board. Not all children Twitter. Crucially, there is debate over whether there is any adequate evidence for claims made about digital natives and their implications for education. Bennett, Maton & Kervin (2008), for example, critically review the research evidence and describe some accounts of digital natives as an academic form of a moral panic. Of course, nobody is "born digital" (unless we are now Borg- Trekkie's will understand); as with any cultural technology, such as reading and writing, it is matter of access to education.

First Blog

This is the first blog that I have ever created. I do have a blog that I created for my students at work but this one really feels different.