6/26/2017 0 Comments SocIal medIaHow can/should social media be used to help you develop/collaborate/communicate as a professional?
What are the critical issues to consider?
What would you do if you were to come across an inappropriate post made by one of your students outside of the school. Do you address the post and, if so, how?
Whom do you involve in the conversations?
What considerations must you make in determining your course of action?
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6/19/2017 0 Comments online useful resourcesUSA Amateur Resource Center tools can be found at http://web.usabaseball.com/arc/coaches/. This tool is a great resource as a head coach and to share with the assistant coaches as well as players. It provides online education, an app that includes tools like drills, practice plans, a pitch counter, a stopwatch and more, as well as resources for every position. As an administrator beside drills and practice plans, there are also printable resources that include a team handbook, maintenance, team contact info, as well as much more.
This tool is a website so it takes time to explore what is useful and relevant to the person exploring. It doesn’t take much time to get to know the layout and find things quickly. Using this tool for the first time I didn’t think it would be as beneficial as it was. Often I am exploring all sorts of sites to find documents that I can use that match my needs, even things as simple as a playing roster. This site doesn’t have many options for each tool, but there are a lot of tools. Field maintenance for example is important as it keeps players from getting hurt and represents our school and our team. Often when looking at sites for coaching, things like this would be overlooked and not included in tools for a coach. This is a great tool that I can use for many parts of the job as a baseball coach. I will refer to it often, and have downloaded the app as well as shared it with the assistant coaches and players. I look forward to getting to know it more. 6/19/2017 2 Comments finding the time-Digital LiteracyWhile we live in a digital time and assume students are digitally prepared, they may not be. Teachers are often teaching curriculum that is mandated and takes up the whole day, leaving little time to focus on other things. Students however who are not digitally literate need time to learn basic tools so that they can be successful. In college baseball we interact digitally mainly through individual texts, group texts and sometimes email. The time I have with the students, similar to teachers in a classroom, I need to dedicate to specific things also leaving little for anything that doesn’t fit in that plan. I can relate to how this would be difficult and also to its importance.
If I were in a traditional classroom I would dedicate the first week of school to basic skills that needed to be taught. As time went on I would have students work in partners with a student who is strong in digital literacy and could act as a mentor as well as work with small groups to guide students who needed more support. Finding out how to make the time and implement the teaching is important as without students are naturally going to be separated by ability and fall behind in an area where no one needs to struggle if they have the guidance and teaching they need. 6/13/2017 0 Comments digital literacyGiven your students grade level and the subject matter you teach, consider how you can teach digital citizenship and specifically digital citizenship as it relates to digital communication.
Most of my players are just graduating from high school. Those who are a little older have been in high school in the last five years. Students have been exposed to digital citizenship in their high schools and now at the junior college in their academic classes. In college baseball however, our focus on digital citizenship is in regards to using computers, smartphones and cell phones in a legal and smart way in their personal life. Sharing information like inappropriate pictures or text can be harmful to a student athlete. Everything they do or share could potentially harm them. Please provide three examples on how you might make learning digital citizenship personal for your students. There are four areas of digital citizenship that apply to my players in baseball, digital communication, digital etiquette, digital law and digital access. To make these important parts of digital citizenship personal to students so that they learn and use the skills they learn, they need to see how it is relevant in their lives. Three of the four are all taught but instead of in separate lessons, they are taught in numerous lessons regarding the same topic. Digital etiquette, digital communication and digital law are all important to teach when it comes to being appropriate online. How players use their technology and what they are sharing has to be appropriate. In the media today we have seen how high profile student athletes and pro athletes have misused technology and suffered the consequences whether it be not being able to play for their team anymore, legal ramifications or financial ramifications as well as a major detriment to their character in the media. In order to hit this idea home we look at schools and players, what they did, how it was wrong, alternatives and consequences. By teaching them this crucial information they will know how to protect themselves, their coaches, their friends, the school and the community. Digital access for our players with smartphones makes it easy. I make sure they have access to their library cards and know how to use them. They are given a library card when they register and if for some reason they need computer access, they can have it there. All my players have access to the internet. Even those who financially have it the hardest, make sure they use their money to have internet on their phone. 6/7/2017 0 Comments bLOG 1Teaching in a Competency-Based Environment
Reading this article makes me wonder how much more I would have enjoyed school without those small desks, stuffy classrooms, and long lectures about the same material of the reading assigned the night before. All of this time school has been presented the same way, and now I am hoping that my kids will have the opprotunity to learn by not only using the teachers brain, but with there own. I look at the way I teach our players to prepare for a Baseball Game. They are given a game plan and video of our opponint to take home, prepare and analyze. Come monday morning we get into our individual routtine working on our greatest weaknesses, whether that's on the offensive side or defensive side, based off of past games and preperation for our new opponint. As coaches, we make adjustments all week to help the players perform their best. By teaching this way, our players not only get prepared and are confident, but are able to make adjustments with confidence during the game. I believe creating this type of atmosphere in the classroom will build friendships and work like relationships between students. Keeping them intreagued, and driving them to greatness. While at the same time, getting teachers out of their comfort zone, forcing improvment in their profession and relationships with students. |
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