ImagineIT. InnovateIT. Implement IT.
This fall, you will add a new spin to your ImagineIT project. Until now, you watered a big idea and let it grow within the context of your classroom setting. You shaped it to fit your classroom and/or learning community based on various technological, pedagogical, and content-based challenges you may face. Now it is time to take it a step ahead, and consider some issues that may arise as you move forward to implement it in your classrooms.
- This fall you will read The Dreamkeepers by Gloria Ladson-Billings, Stuck in the Shallow End by Jane Margolis, or What Should I Do? OR Confronting Dilemmas of Teaching in Urban Schools by Anna Ershler Richert.
- Using this book, you will identify problems that you face in general, and potential issues that you may face in regards to your ImagineIT Project implementation.
- Once you have identified these issues, you will confer with colleagues and map out a plan of attack to confront these potential ImagineIT issues.
- You will then conduct a focus group with a collection of your students, where you test the potential resolutions that you brainstormed with your colleagues.
- You will then report your findings in the form of a short report that will be posted to you website.
- Once you have completed the focus group, it will be time to actually implement an some of your ImagineIT project and will post an update about your progress.
- Finally, you will write a final report at the end of the semester updating us of the overall experience.
As you dive into your ImagineIT project, be sure to take note of what is transpiring, as you will be posting an update to your website, informing visitors of the progress being made in your project. See more details on each Phase’s page linked below.
To streamline this process, we have broken down the ImagineIT into smaller pieces with individual deadlines to keep you on track with the overall project.
Now, let’s take a look at each of the three phases (4, 5, and 6). We HIGHLY recommend that you read all of the phases before starting Phase 4 so that you have a complete vision for where you will go with your ImagineIT this fall.
Phase 4 – READING THE BOOK & PROBLEMATIZING YOUR ImagineIT WITH DILEMMAS
Phase 5 – CONFERRING WITH COLLEAGUES, STUDENT FOCUS GROUP, & SHORT REPORT
