Teacher connecting with others

My research experience and learning through this inquiry blogging world so far has been a positive one. I had never posted on a blog before but had read some blogs and would be redirected to blogs through certain websites. I enjoy the blogging platform and reading other people’s more personal accounts and opinions on topics (versus using very academic based and often dry, research articles).    My topic of integrating technology successfully into primary classrooms had many hundreds of hits both through library search engines, google, Pinterest, and Youtube. I am a visual learner so I definitely preferred the sites that included pictures, video, graphs, and charts to the long and lengthy written articles where you have to spend a good amount of time reading to see if they have any relevant or interesting information on your topic. A skill set that I need to learn, as a TL and teacher, would be to learn to speed read or scan resources effectively....

Lights are starting to go off in my brain after working through this Reading Review Part 2! I am learning, discovering, understanding, and accepting new information on my topic! Yippee! (image retrieved from BC Curriculum Reporting and Assessment section) https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/classroom-assessment-and-reporting   My search criteria and keywords that I came up with last week were “integrating technology into the primary classroom.” I found the following Youtube videos, images, and blog sites useful (see below). Then I added the word “successfully” to my search. Lesson plans from Pinterest popped up and interesting academic articles. The first resource I want to mention is a blog site called “Education to the Core.”     https://educationtothecore.com/2015/05/making-technology-meaningful-in-primary/#respond I really enjoyed Emily Liscom’s blog because it tapped into many of my concerns about technology integration. She is a kin...

My Reading Review journey on issues and personal interest topics started with my focus on my current teaching situation. I am a primary teacher and have taught Grades 1-4 over the last 5 years of my teaching career. I have moved schools every year, and this year I have finally landed a placement in a school that I can now call “home”. I am teaching Grade 2 this year and I want to make my research relevant to my current grade level and my classroom environment, as I probably won’t become a Teacher-Librarian for a number of years still. I work in an affluent neighbourhood in Vancouver. Our school used to have a computer lab, but due to more divisions and classroom spaces needed, the computer lab was converted into a working classroom. All those desktop computers were dispersed to intermediate teachers and the primary classes maybe ended up with one or two, if they were lucky. The school also has 2 desktop computers in the library and an iPad cart that is shared on a...