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• 07 Dec 09
  

  Adam Brandis

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• 19 Jul 09
  

  Karen Szymusiak
• 24 Apr 09
  

  mary little-finnegan
  • A Mindset NOT a Skillset
  • If a teacher’s mind is closed… they will have the excuse of “No Time”… “thanks for offering to help … but don’t have the time (to invest in learning something new) right now”.  Is it time or priorities?
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  • • If a teacher’s mind is closed…they will blame it on their LACK of tech skills. It is too easy to say:

      
      
      • “I am just no good at it”
      • “I don’t know how”
      • “You can do it much fast
    • If a teacher’s mind is closed…there is never the “right kind” of help available to them.

    • If a teacher’s mind is closed…they will only hear what they want to hear. They will think that having their students use

      
      
      • a Word Processor to type in pre-written chunks of text
      • let them click around on websites to practice kill and drill math facts
      • Edit a pre-made PowerPoint template with text
      
      

      is technology integration.

• 06 Apr 09
  

  Shirley Smith

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• 12 Mar 09
  

  Barbara Lindsey

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• 03 Mar 09
  

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• 23 Feb 09
  

  Michelle Krill

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  Danita Russell

  Teacher's mindset make a difference in the classroom.

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  Barb Smith

  • It happened to me last week, when I followed Kim Cofino’s tweet from
    her for an upcoming presentation “21Century
    Classroom“.

  • Slide 19 has not left me since then.

    
    

    

    
    

    If a teacher’s mind is closed… they will have the excuse of “No
    Time”… “thanks for offering to help … but don’t have the time (to
    invest in learning something new) right now”.  Is it time or
    priorities?

    
    

    If a teacher’s mind is closed…they will blame it on their LACK of
    tech skills. It is too easy to say:

    
    
    • “I am just no good at it”
      
    • “I don’t know how”
      
    • “You can do it much faster”
      
    • “I am so far behind”.
    • Give them group help…they want 1:1 help (but never come through the open
      door or make the time  to set a 1:1 session up).
      
    • Offer them someone to co-teach , supporting them in their effort to teach
      THEIR curriculum… It seems an inconvenience when having to invest the time for
      collaborative lesson planning.
      
    • They want no “extra” work (ground work done for them)… still want to retain
      ownership in lessons/projects..but don’t follow through or up.
      
    • Give them written step by step instructional How-to-Guides, but they forget
      where they placed the paper or how to retrieve another digital copy
      
    • A Merry -Go-Round scenario when teachers move on to the next kind of help
      they would need (and is offered, but to inconvenient to take advantage
      of)
    • a Word Processor to type in pre-written chunks of text
      
    • let them click around on websites to practice kill and drill math facts
      
    • Edit a pre-made PowerPoint template with text
    
    

    is technology integration.

    
    

    If a teacher’s mind is closed…they already know (without
    ever being interested in reading about educational trends, experimenting or
    researching a new approach) that it would just not be worth changing or
    tweaking their repeated time-tested lessons plan of 5 years.

    
    

    If a teacher’s mind is closed…they will use an incredible amount of
    energy fighting  to prevent technology to successfully trickle into their
    teaching. There would be too much change, that their mind is not
    willing to deal with and absorb.

    
    

    If a teacher’s mind is closed… there will be no successful technology
    integration…too many excuses…

    
    

    It does NOT seem to be about the skills (or does it?)… it is about the
    MINDSET. Until that changes…

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  Chuck Holland

  langwitches

• 22 Feb 09
  

  Ashley Garner
• 

  Rebecca Hatherley

  A Mindset NOT a Skillset
  
  Every once in a while when you read or hear something… you can’t let it go. It might have not been a long article, blog post or speech… but rather a small quote that grips you and does not leave you… it resonates somewhere deep inside you…
  
  It happened to me last week, when I followed Kim Cofino’s tweet from her for an upcoming presentation “21Century Classroom“.

  mindset skillset

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