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I am a newbie in the field of IDT and the story (http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=72284) I read might be inspiring for us.
Sherri Clemens, “one of only 100 nationwide and the only one in Colorado to receive the Distinguished Educator Award from Apple Computers” in 2007, started her master’s program in 2001, when she didn’t even know “how to plug her mouse into her computer” and was “scared to death of it”. She majored in computer science and now she is helping integrate technologies in classrooms.
Where will we be 5 or 7 years from now? To which level are we going to be in the field of IDT? I wasn’t scared to death when I started to blog, but felt a little nervous starting this new thing. Now I am on the road to learn about the IDT and looking forward to using it in the near future in my classroom. I may not be the future distinguished educator, but the story does give me (actually to every one of us) some encouragement.
We enroll in this program in order to do something with the knowledge we are going to learn. It is this desire that is going to keep us motivated and succeed eventually in what we do. I am sure we are better than knowing plugging a mouse into a computer.
Now we just need to get the bug, and as Sherri said, “It’s going to be there forever.”
