2. Creatively find and use resources. I can't believe the technology found in some of our teachers' classrooms. And it was neither provided by our department nor stolen (I don't think). Through personal purchase, through parent-teacher groups, through grants, through business partnerships, through parental contacts, through fund raising, and through classroom supply budgets, brilliant teachers amazingly amass digital cameras and clickers and sensors and classroom computer labs. One of our brilliant teachers MacGyver-ed his own document camera out of an old camcorder, plastic pipe, and duct tape. He calls it his Grover (not his Elmo).
I think that it is amazing the technology that people can find and use so creatively. Through grants and other resources teachers have to dig to find the right technology for their classroom. Right now times are bad and there is no money to be found so now teachers have to be very creative in finding new and innovative things for the classroom.
1. Empower kids with technology. Technology is an amplifier of natural abilities. Brilliant teachers see that good writers become better writers, good debaters become better debaters, good French speakers become better French speakers, good mathematical problem-solvers become better mathematical problem-solvers, and so on. by helping their students harness technology. They do not see technology as a crutch, but as a propellant. Brilliant teachers have experienced the empowering power of technology themselves. Brilliant teachers use good assessment strategies to rigorously determine the quality of technology-enhanced projects.
Technology can only help students, it can help them do whatever they are interested in better. It teaches them how to reach outside of their own world. It gives them all the information they need and more, it answers their questions and helps them to decide on things. I think that teaching them how to use technology in a positive way is a wonderful tool. This generation is learning more and more everyday about technology and we have to keep up!
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