Social media is flooded with memes right now… funny, irreverent, inspiring, demoralizing, sincere, disingenuous, inclusive, outright bigoted… I read and chuckle, ponder and react, unfollow and unfriend, or roll my eyes and keep scrolling through the never-ending cacophony of people hurling their opinions into the ether… having the same net effect as screaming into a thunderstorm.
As with a Texas tempest in early summer, sometimes lightening strikes, startling and immobilizing us just long enough to see the familiar in new and frightening ways… illuminating our hubris… a bolt of electric truth cracking the seemingly impenetrable fortress walls of our inherently flawed yet stubbornly calcified world views…
I’ve been chewing on this one for weeks:
For the first time in awhile, I clicked the "like" button and saved the image to my phone. I'm going to carry this one with me.
This statement speaks directly to my engagements as a teacher educator.
Distance learning works, and I'm a HUGE fan. But, much like face-to-face learning, students' experiences vary widely depending on teacher training and expertise as well as access to resources. We need to continue our efforts to empower preservice teachers with the tools to transform teaching and learning with educational equity as the cornerstone for both face-to-face and online learning.
Distance learning works, and I'm a HUGE fan. But, much like face-to-face learning, students' experiences vary widely depending on teacher training and expertise as well as access to resources. We need to continue our efforts to empower preservice teachers with the tools to transform teaching and learning with educational equity as the cornerstone for both face-to-face and online learning.
Let's evaluate and revise our pedagogical practices for online teacher preparation, modeling the type of teachers we wish our students to be both in this type of crisis and beyond.
The Association for Advancement of Computing in Education, conjunction with the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education and the Learning and Technology Library, published this free eBook: Teaching, Technology, and Teacher Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stories from the Field.
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Sections include: online pedagogical strategies, community and collaboration, alternative field experiences in pre-service teacher education, pre-service teacher education methods and pedagogy, K-16 educator professional development, digital tools, and equity issues.
Needless to say, this resource is a great place to start!
We can't lead the way unless we walk the talk. A big part of the change in education begins with the teachers of teachers. We've got push harder for universal access and continue to broaden the inclusivity of our methodologies.
