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Facilitator, Coach or Coordinator? | always learning – Annotated
What is it about technology in education that makes it so difficult to define roles that everyone can agree on and understand? Even though we’ve had technology in schools for decades, it still seems like we’re making it up as we go along.
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What impressed me most was the extensive research in the field of librarianship about the process (and effect) of collaboration among colleagues. Although the day-to-day tasks of a librarian versus a technology facilitator might be very different; the established, research-based process of collaboration, which librarians have been refining for decades, certainly provides an interesting inspiration for technology facilitation.
- I’d be somewhat lost without our librarians. The insight they share is invaluable. – post by todbaker
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Be sure to track teacher progress by using a conferring notebook with items you’ve been trying to teach, times you are going in to see the teachers doing it (checklist), quality of what teachers are doing – use this to plan more in-classroom work.
- I”m building my conferring notebook in Bento. – post by todbaker
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From the goal of being in the classroom as a top priority, to focusing on the process not the content, to starting small; everything Maggie shared fit closely with my experience and understanding of technology facilitation.
- I notice there hasn’t been any mention of “tools”. It seems the assumption here is that the teachers are comfortable with the tools and are now aiming to use them to transform learning. – post by todbaker
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a systematic approach
- I believe that schools need their own flavor of technology facilitation. At IST we’ll eventually see a developed program and come to recongnize it as technology facilitation the IST way. – post by todbaker
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So what happens when the content area is just as new to the teacher as the best practice teaching?
- Is this why we sometimes get hung up on the tool instead of the teaching? – post by todbaker
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In my mind technology integration is about improving instruction, not how to push buttons in a wiki, or Word. Technology is not the focus. Student learning is the focus.
- Right on. But how do we get to this level? We need to be comfortable pushing the buttons. – post by todbaker
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