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Journal Module Eight

**//Reflection Prompt://** Summarize your learning for this term. How will you use the knowledge you have constructed to improve your use of technology for learning in your class and for your own personal and professional development?

Description: This week we were asked to consider all that we have learned this semester and what we are going to do with our new knowledge.

Impact: For years I have been trying to figure out what to do with my life and I still am. However, at this point I feel stronger about my future than I have in a long time. I want to use my new knowledge in a technology facilitator type position in a school district. This position will allow me to blend my love of technology as well as the classroom. I want to stay out of the classroom in a teaching capacity, yet this position will allow me to still be in that environment and facilitate learning. I will be able to use my new knowledge of TPACK and my knowledge of technology to help educators in their endeavor to teach students.

I am concerned that I will not be able to find a position in this area. Due to poor funding, I can see many districts seeing this position as expendable and therefore cutting it. This position is essential in my mind, yet many people have never heard of TPACK and therefore would see this position as an extra expense.

I am also concerned that I may find a position, yet it will be a technology manager position instead of facilitator. I will be maintaining computers, plugging in wires and RAM and installing SMARTboards. Although I might have the opportunity to create the position I want from this job, the opportunity may never present itself.

Intent: I plan on searching for the right district. A district that already has a facilitator position or a position that I feel can be molded into a facilitator type position. I want to help students learn and I want to be close to technology. Despite the obstacles, my hope is that this can be accomplished. I want to be able to blend my loves of technology and education. I have worked in both fields independently and have found neither to be exactly what I want, so I really hope that this is where I need to be. My new knowledge and skills that I have learned and will continue to learn in this program will make me more marketable and more prepared to accomplish the requirements of a facilitator in the classroom.