I was really inspired after the George Couros’ presentation. It filled me with hope for the future of my students and really made me feel empowered as a technologically savvy teacher. I use technology in my classroom to differentiate learning, to include all types of learning styles and to add variety. I want my students to express themselves and to be able to use technology if they wish. Technology adds a new dimension to the classroom and for myself, it’s important that I stay up to date with technology. Technology allows us to have the capacity to extend communication from beyond the borders of the classroom, it opens up different ways of communication, and it can introduce our students to a wealth of excellent resources.

Twitter? Although Mr. Couros highly recommended that we sign up for Twitter to connect with other teaching staff from around the World, I am still very hesitant. I have never been one to really enjoy social media and, in fact, I find myself too busy to check my phone for tweets. Teaching is a busy career, and I often find myself surfing the web for innovative ideas to bring to my classroom. In the future, I’d really like to explore things such as Skype in the classroom. I would love for my classroom to connect with another classroom from a different province or even city. I’ve also come across Skype sessions called “Mystery Chats” where a classroom connects with another classroom to solve a problem together. This type of innovation is more of my style as a classroom teacher. I’m not entirely ruling out the future potential of Tweeting with others, however, at this time I am not quite convinced. It may be “scary” for some or feel “unsafe” for others, however for myself, I feel like there are so many more types of innovations that I want to explore. The internet is constantly changing and before we know it, Twitter may be obsolete.

Has anyone explored Edmodo for their classroom?

Micheline Lesk

École Sir William Osler

cluster 1971