Breaking the Edtech Ice: #2techtruths
Two Truths and a Lie. You may have played it as an icebreaker during a professional development session or even a party. It is a terrific “Getting to know you” activity for the first day of school with middle or high schoolers. In thinking about it, I decided to offer My Two TECH Truths and a Lie as a way for ed tech coaches and teachers to break the ice this back to school season. It’s simple. Offer up two TECH truths and a lie about yourself. Share them on a wiki, blog post, or Twitter post — with #2techtruths as a hashtag. Choose your sharing method depending on the learning tool(s) you are trying to introduce. Or allow teachers to choose their OWN tool and figure out how to share it with the rest of the group. For the simplest version, try using chat tool like Todaysmeet for people to share. Imagine trying this on the first day in a BYOD classroom or workshop for soon-to-be-BYOD teachers!
Have everyone in the session to do the same. Then have everyone browse, read, comment, discuss, or tweet back their guesses as to which is each person’s LIE. You will not only teach social learning, you will build trust among a cohort of learners, including yourself. Isn’t that what learning with technology is supposed to be all about?
Here are my Two Tech Truths and Lie:
A. I once co-wrote a text-based, “adventure” style game called Ice Cream Mountain to play on Apple IIc.
B. I once shared a porn site on the projection screen in a teacher inservice session.
C. I once shared resources for teaching gifted with the US DOE.
Guesses? Tweet @cshively with hashtag #2techtruths or comment here.
Number one is not the truth.
Comment by Felicia Wilkie-Blake — August 31, 2014 @ 10:57 am
Sorry, Felicia. It IS true!
Comment by Candace Hackett Shively — August 31, 2014 @ 11:13 am