GEN-2243-091: Chapter 2 summary/ future career

Chapter 2 talks about developing a connected learning model and teacher networks. Teacher networks include curriculum documents, colleagues, popular media, print/digital resources, and family and local communities. Teachers play a huge role in all of these things all around the world. A teacher keeps in touch with their colleagues to seek different teaching styles and to broaden their teaching perspectives. The chapter discusses diversity and how connected learning communities are the perfect greenhouses. Teachers can be exposed to different cultures in their classrooms so that brings a different type of community into their life.

When I become a teacher, I know I will always be involved in different types of communities within my classroom and my students. As a teacher, I will want to broaden my knowledge by getting more involved in those communities and bringing that knowledge into my classroom. I think it is very important to keep up with popular medias as a teacher because you can gain more ideas to teach. Popular medias such as Twitter and Pinterest are always sharing new ideas whether it's in the classroom or not. Pinterest is awesome for new ideas and how to get creative with it to fascinate students. When I am a teacher, I will most definitely use Pinterest because I am not the most artistic person so I think it will give me a lot of cool idea to show my future students. Blogs are also convenient for teachers to use with their students and with their colleagues. So I will use that as a teacher too.