This past week, I was challenged to show my work when it came to the prototyping stage of my design project. I chose to share my work on Twitter, but I wanted to reflect deeper here. To recap some, the design project I am working on is to design a professional development model that works for the staff at my school to learn more about technology. At first it seemed like a pretty simple task, but then I dug into the empathy interviews some and realized that my first thoughts were not aligned with what my edtech staff needed. When I looked deeper into what my edtechs were wanting, I found out that they really needed some time to play around with the student end of the tools. When I was thinking of PD before, I was thinking more teaching how to use the teacher side of things and paralleling student views; essentially helping teachers see how to implement it in the classrooms. But my edtechs don't need that. They need to be able to learn how to do what the students are doing so that they can better help them when they are using the tool in class. That is why I got the idea to give edtechs separate times to play with technology than teachers. Here are the 2 prototypes I have come up with. The first calendar alternates working with teachers, then working with support staff. The second calendar has time for teachers, time for support staff, and then a time to get together so that they can collaborate. Right now I am leaning toward prototype two because my empathy interviews showed a want for sharing a collaborating (and as a newish teacher, I learn so much from my support staff). During this process, I reached out to others to see what had been successful for them, I was hoping for more responses, but I did get two back that help back some of the ideas I had been having. I knew that with either schedule I chose, I was going to have to send out a survey to my support staff to see what tools they would want to play around with. I called the survey Technology Playground as when we get together, a lot of it will be that hands on playing with me and another staff member around to guide if needed. IXL, Google Classroom, and Quizlet were among the most popular to play around with, and because of that, I will make sure they are offered more frequently. The ones that were not so popular, Flipgrid and Screencastify, I will sprinkle in along the way so those who want to play can. I am excited to share my ideas with our Curriculum Coordinator and really bummed that I can't actually try anything out until 2019 starts. This is a problem that I really want to get to the bottom to, and I think the work the I have started will help me tremendously. During this process I also found out that somedays all it take to show your work is a little goal setting, some reading, and oh yeah, even some productive procrastination!
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AuthorMy name is Jessica Meservey and I am a 6th grade teacher. There is no level that I would rather be teaching and learning with. I currently teach in rural Maine. I love to integrate technology into my classroom as we are 1:1. Find me on Twitter at @MsMeservey. ArchivesCategories |