It was really very informative discussions we had with George Couros yesterday. His points from how we as new teacher candidates presents ourselves to the community we are going to teach to the effect digital foot-print have to our future job opportunities, from how useful connecting with other educators through social-media might create more opportunities finding jobs to what most Principals and superintendents want from new teachers during recruitment.
When he was talking about how personal e-mails to a friend or a family members also considered as an online posting because any body can take a picture of the email and post it online anybody to see it, wow I have never thought about that.
The other interesting thing he talked about was how teachers might discourage students from learning if we say" stupid technology" or "stupid science or math". Teaching is not about grade or it is not about finishing one outcome and move to the other outcome, teaching is when students ask question, explore and master what they are learning.
Have a good day.
Another interesting thing that i found he said was that we want to be found on google. It never occurred to me that it could cost me a job if I can't be easily found on line!
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