November is right on the money when he states that since adults are not native born to the world of technology they are like immigrants learning a new culture. Teachers are indeed digital immigrants and find it hard to have students learn new skills faster then them. We have the mind set that to be the teacher we must be smarter then the students we are teaching. It is quite humbling at first to try the practice of reverse mentoring. Students who can teach and assist other students with the technology help enhance my classroom management.
As far as, collaboration and sharing of knowledge, I feel the teachers in my district are quite fortunate. Not only do we have weekly collaboration time set aside within our grade level, but we also have monthly district wide Professional Development and/or Collaboration time with our grade level. I believe this is imperative to our professional growth. This is turn aids our collaboration with parents. It's a win win situation.
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We are lucky when it comes to collaboration; but can you imagine how that looks when your collaboration pool of teachers becomes hundreds. On twitter and plurk that is what happens. You post something like "why isn't my garageband working correctly," and within seconds you have several answers. That's the powerful collaboration of web 2.0.
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