Kathrine Interviews Herself on Her Educational Technology Philosophy

First of all I don’t think I have ever asked myself this question in terms of technology, educational or otherwise. So, this will definitely be a work in progress.

I believe the purpose of education is to bring an individual to an enlightenment of the application of various venues of society selected training and an understanding of the individual’s role within that society.

I believe that the role of the learner is to question, acquire/acknowledge, practice and finally apply the mastered tenets of a given topic.

I believe that an educator has the charge to direct a student’s line of learning through the discovery of, and acquisition of a giving topic.

My classroom objective as a teacher is to take a ‘cold turkey’ subject, introduce it and the student to each other, then engage the student into its depths and challenge them to broaden their world with the subject matter and exit the class a more enlightened individual from having encountered the subject. My campus wide objectives are to help the student gain confidence and skill in being a more successful student by using the subject matter to address a couple of areas that many students struggle in, test taking and public speaking. My professional objective is to give the teachers to be in my classes, and other professionals who may have to be trainers, an example of a portion of their careers in action by often explaining my methods and reason quickly before beginning a select activity the first time.

I use many different methods depending on the course of activities and area of subject focus selected from that day. One method you could call the “Frog in the pot of water on the stove” or dependence weaning and facing/reducing your fear of public speaking.  I bring the students through a select pattern of fear reductions in order to bring out the true best of the student in two high stress areas of education.  1) Test taking, 2) Public speaking.

Because I teach college, I expect my students to be pre-read for class, to challenge themselves to do better with each attempt, to explore, to genuinely try, do their assigned work, do college level research and presentations, show respect for their classmates and me, and be on-time, and show proper classroom comportment.

It is going to be interesting to see how this philosophy will become melded or how my usage of technology becomes brought to the surface in the forth coming weeks, as I’m still not clear on what is an Infomator really?