First Media Committee Meeting

Today I went to my first media committee meeting. There were six other faculty members from BUES and Mrs. B attending the meeting. I could not have picked a better meeting to go to, because we worked on a three year 21st Century Technology Implementation and Learning Plan. Mrs. B discussed our district vision statement for 21st Century Learning which is: Students will have access to and be engaged in the use of a variety of technology tools to increase opportunities for collaboration, problem solving, innovation, and research in order to prepare them for post-secondary education and/or skill of a global workforce. To develop our school's three year plan, we discussed the current technology that we are using on a regular basis, and the way in which it is being used by teachers and students. We also discussed the ways in which the technology we are using is having a positive impact on our students. I think that the most crucial thing that I got from the meeting was that our school has an abundance of technology, but our staff has not been trained properly on how to use it. For this reason alone, most of our staff is either using the technology incorrectly or not using it at all. When I become a media specialist I will emphasize the importance of properly training teachers on the technology that we use.