Skyler Huspen's EDU776 Blog

Photo courtesy of twitter.com I joined Twitter in 2009. Like most millennials, I used it to stay in contact with friends, scroll through memes, and share tidbits about my day. It wasn't until my senior year of undergrad that I actually created a professional Twitter account. I took a nutrition communication class that required I create an account and tweet out helpful nutrition tips several times a week. It stressed writing my own tweets over retweeting others. This was great, but I didn't really focus on gaining followers because I didn't interact much with the rest of Twitter. It wasn't until EDU776 that I truly started utilizing Twitter to expand my professional network.  Field trips can be fun and educational, but they can also be expensive, hard to plan, and difficult to chaperone. One resource that I found particularly helpful was originally posted by Kara Wilkins  and shared through Twitter  by  @WeAreTeachers . They post contained a list of 250 ...

Our world is constantly changing and evolving. Every day, new research pertaining to our fields is published. As professionals, it is our responsibility to be aware of this research. We don't have to necessarily practice everything we read, but being familiar with new and emerging information helps us to be better and more effective educators. And the better and more effective we are, the more beneficial we are to our students. That's why I thought looking over research for this week's assignment was very interesting. Photo courtesy of http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/ speak-up-2016-trends-digital-learning-june-2017.html One statistic that really stuck with me came from Project Tomorrow's  Speak Up Report . It states that, "Technology leaders (67%) say that the greatest challenge they face in implementing digital learning or expanding technology use is motivating teachers to change their traditional practices to use technology more meaningfully with students....