What
is one strategy you will use to assess the technology needs of your
context? How will you document needs? What kind of data will you
use?
I
feel that the first step, no matter what context or location is used for
assessment is to create a survey that others could fill out to help determine
the needs of that particular school or classroom. The survey would need to
cover topics such as: how long you have been teaching, current technologies in
use in the classroom, what technologies they would like to use or become more
familiar with, interest
in attending technology-related
professional development, and how well
they think that their current curriculum covers the 21st century
objectives.
That
being said, I began by reviewing the Determining
Your Technology Needs link and then I reviewed the Virginia Beach City Public
Schools (VBCPS) Technology plan to begin to think about a direction to work in
for the technology assessment. I am having a difficult time trying to decide
which way to go about this portion of the assignment. Ideally I would love to
be teaching art again in a K-12 setting, but due to relocating to Virginia
Beach and the lack of jobs here, I have worked as a substitute for a year and
currently I am working as a teacher’s assistant in a Distance Learning lab. In less
than 2 months my husband will be transferred to Saratoga Springs, NY and we
will be moving again. I do not know where I will be working or anything about
the school districts there yet. So I am thinking that now I may need to start
to research the area and learn about the school district and the Technology
Plan they have in place.
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