Homage to the Digitally Curious Colleauge
I have been thinking back on my experience of the last year as an Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert. I have come a long way. My confidence in new digital environments has increased and I realised a very important thing about being a digitally fluent teacher...you don' t have to know everything there is to know about all the tools available to you in your kura, you just have to have the confidence to know you can work it out if you play around long enough. BUT, it is quicker if you have a colleague to brainstorm with! Enter (Stage Left) - Digitally Curious Colleague Much of the digital world I try to get my head around these days has large components of collaborative capability, which are the ultimate digital tools for a teacher. Having a curious colleague to help you explore it all means that one of you can be the teacher and one of you can be the student, nutting out all the useful tricks of the tool. The Web must be littered with carcasses of old embryonic 'Test&