Week+3-+Part+3.5++Technology+Facilitator+Standard+5

//Educational technology facilitators apply technology to enhance and improve personal productivity and professional practice.// __//Self-Assessment//__ I believe I am part digital immigrant and part digital native. I recall going to the computer lab in elementary school once a week to use Apple computers. My first computer literacy course occurred when I was in 8th grade for a semester. In the 12th grade, we took Microcomputer Applications. Prensky (2001) said digital immigrants don't believe that their students can learn successfullyh while watching TV or listening to music. I allow my students to listen to iPods or music from the Internet while working. The students are quiet, but if it interferes with their grades or quality of work, I take the privelege away.
 * __TECHNOLOGY FACILITATION STANDARD V:__**
 * Productivity and Professional Practice**

__//Learn as a Learner//__ Prensky (2001) said today's teacher's have to learn to communicate in the language and style of their students. We have to find ways to incoporate the "traditional" curriculum of reading, writing, and arithmetic with "future" digital and technological methods. Our professional development and staff meetings will have to reflect this. We spend most of time sitting their listening to a presenter on a project or looking at a powerpoint handout. Like the students, some in audience try to sneak in checking text and our social network pages, even posting statuses so that //everyone// know we're not paying attention.

__//Lifelong Learning Skills//__ We now have the opportunity to teach students to be lifelong learners and create their own independent learning practice they can carry with them (Richardson 2007). Richardson (2007) also says one of the most profound shifts we are undergoing is the move from a passive, consumer-based culture to a participatory, production-based culture. To continue to approach schooling from a content delivery model puts us at risk quickly becoming irrelevant. __//References//__ Prensky, M. (2001). Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Part 1. //On the Horizon. 9;5.//2-6. Richardson, W. (2007). The Seven C's of Learning. //District Administration. March.// 97. Williamson, J., & Redish, T. (2009). //ISTE's technology facilitation and leadership standards.// Eugene, OR: International Society for Technology in Education.