25 Signs You Might Be A 21st Century Teacher
by Terry Heick, TeachThought.com
You might be a 21st century teacher if…
- You think of clouds as good things.
- You check twitter for news. And only twitter.
- The blogosphere is more relevant a term than the stratosphere.
- You spent more this year on iPad peripherals than you have pencils and pens.
- You giggle when you recall how you used to simply give tests at the end of a unit.
- You hate Wikipedia.
- You begged your school accountant for an iTunes card instead of your annual classroom fund.
- Have actually used the phrase “digital citizenship” in a sentence with a straight face.
- You’re in major trouble if the internet goes down during a lesson.
- You love YouTube.
- You forgot what chalk does to your skin.
- Flipping the classroom is an instructional strategy rather than a method of classroom management.
- Your students facebook friend request you, and won’t take the hint.
- Your district has a more transparent facebook policy than they do on assessment or curriculum mapping.
- You text other teachers during meetings.
- You think school should be out on Steve Jobs’ birthday.
- You trade rooms with another teacher for a better Wi-Fi signal—and don’t tell them why.
- You’ve texted during class, but have taken a student’s phone for doing the same.
- You plan lessons assuming that every student has Wi-Fi broadband access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Students blame passwords and log-in issues rather than the dog for eating their homework.
- Your students have to explain certain technologies to you, but you pretend you already knew.
- Your computer clock replaced the clock on the wall.
- You seriously consider that if it’s not being talked about on twitter, it may not have happened.
- You’ve spoken more recently with the tech leader in Mumbai than the new 10thgrade Math teacher down the hall.
- You always truly believe there’s an app for that.
Image attribution flickr user intellfreepress; 25 Signs You Might Be A 21st Century Teacher