The Apple Dropped

Social Media use in Teaching and Professional Development In this post I will be using Jay and Johnson’s (2012) model to guide my discussion. Step 1: I have attempted many times to start up a class blog over the years but somehow I have not sustained it or even got it going. I ended up learning about blogging through my own portfolio against the former PTC’s. In the past year I started to use Seesaw. There was a sense of achievement in both the activity itself and the sharing of it. But there was not any constructive feedback nor were experts used. Considering other social media platforms went in the ‘too hard basket’.             During Professional Development (PD), formally as a school we started to use VLN’s but were not guided on how effective they could be. Generally our PD is arranged around locally sourcing someone or linking with other schools to co-host and facilitate. As we are rural, it ca...

Legal and ethic contexts in my digital practice I am structuring my discussion around Rolfe, Freshwater and Jasper (2001) reflective model. Step 1: What? I have chosen to discuss something I had encountered from moving to a smaller town in my first few years of teaching from living in a large city. In the age of social media, where a huge majority of people access social media accounts daily in the developed world, it comes to no surprise that ethical dilemmas would occur.  Living in a small community usually means that you would know many families of the children you would end up teaching. They may even be a part of your whānau! The ethical dilemma that arises is maintaining the boundaries between personal and professional life. On social media do you accept and/or interact with the parents of your students, and some students themselves? This was one of the first grey areas I had come across. I know what I would do personally, maintain the distance but...