The fun part of class

    This week we had guest speaker Robyn Hrivnatz, she works for Microsoft a part of the education program there. She work on curriculum development and over seeing the educator trainer program. Robyn feels that as an educator social media is crucial, personal learning community is able to give advice, feedback, you learn about the latest trends, and business. In the business aspect its very important because you get an instant, need to know, and view the competition and that is crucial because you need to be relevant to your buyers. Things you need to know, understand your audience, and understand your competition. What Robyn loves is something called true collaboration that its there any time, any place, offline or online it works and it is instant feedback. She calls today's kids microwave kids they want everything instantly.  She gave us some great tips to follow while out on the social media sites: have a careful balance being professional yet still being yourself. Build out your network look for #s search for whatever your passionate about. Find the influences and follow them and do not be scared to reach out and connect to them. Build a personality that is interesting to a potential employee or potential connection this is important on sites like Linkedin.

    Class got even better when all we were told to bring foil, cardboard, bananas, and play doh it threw everyone off. We used makeymakey and had to figure out how to win either frogger, mario, and guitar hero. This was beyond fun we went into groups and started to brain storm we laughed, while trying to work hard to be the first to win. Google doc, you can view the google sheet showing what worked for us and didn't and some of the pictures while we worked. I am happy to say my group was the winners we were able to get frogger across twice =).  The video is posted to my twitter Sanabria5290 check it out to watch frogger leap into victory. 

   Chapter 9 in the Connected Educator goes into learning new things we need to unlearn a lot of things from our past to be able to keep up. They discuss learning 2.0 and its 4 components: knowledge, pedagogy, connections, and capacity. With knowledge it focuses on awareness of your networks expertise and knowing how to connect with students rather than memorizing and what you know. Pedagogy is taking the classroom and creating this safe, stress free, community based environment for your class and being connected even when not in school. Connections teaching students about PLN's, making your connections grow on your media, finding communities and sharing your ideas openly. Capacity this gives the learner room to grow and discover their passions and interest and it gives them the freedom to do so. It is all about how teachers who are connected educators are changing education with the use of the internet. I agree being connected online would have helped a bunch when I was in middle school. You have the access to help in and out of the classroom and this is what connected education is all about.