Ok, I have not met my goal to post. Ah, go figure? It really does take a lot of dedication which I obviously do not have, YET.
There are only six school days left!!! But, of course like most teachers, I really don't get a summer vacation. It's the nature of the beast - especially considering the subjects I teach - which demands a significant amount of attention over the summer.
In other words, I tweak or totally revamp most of the curricula I teach. Technology is not like English or History where most of the information is static. Do not get me wrong; it still takes a clever mind to make English and History interesting enough to get students' invested enough to learn.
But teaching technology is more than how it is taught, it's constantly evolving and updating! AND that requires a lot of dedication to learning new information and incorporating it into the curricula constantly.
For example, English grammar does not change nor does historical events, but in technology software is updated as well as programming languages. Imagine being told that how to make a noun plural is NOT to add an -s to the end but rather to add an -z, AND the signing of the Declaration of Independence really happened in 1676. At least I don't get bored, right?
Since I will be spending a significant amount of time working on curricula this summer, I will share a lot of the new information I discover as well as how those lesson plans are evolving. I'll also share some of those ramblings we all have about who in the heck makes all these changes and WHY!
