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Education is ever-changing. It constantly moves, changes, and emerges. I was surprised that education was not on the Wikipedia page. I did see how this could help students choose career paths or degrees for the future. By seeing what is up and coming, the students can choose a pathway that will have jobs in the future. With the emerging technology, it's important to know how to best support students. Prior to COVID-19, it was suggested that the Online Education Market would reach $350 billion globally by 2025. The onset of COVID-19 likely increased global earnings. According to Wing , we moved towards more streamable lessons, personalized learning, access to different resources, new ways of communication, and creative methods for delivering the lessons. Even though there was an increase to ensure our students learned, there were still issues with getting teachers trained and getting teachers comfortable with online teaching. Based on my anecdotal observations, which are also suppo...

Aloha e ILD Classmates,  I am delayed in my post this week. I was discharged from the hospital on Friday, along with the newest addition to my family, Melissa. Since she is currently milk drunk and sleeping, I'm going to work on my blog post. And, of course, the first few times I sat down to write this, she woke up. Ugh! 4 day old babies, amiright? To Start... One issue that has been an interest of mine is students cheating using the web. Cheating has been around for quite a while. However, with the onset of the pandemic and the increase usage of the internet, it has become easier, quicker, faster, and more convenient to cheat. The question always remains -- is it ethical? What is Ethics? Ciulla suggests ethics deals with human relationships, and is what we should do/how we should behave as humans and a society. Ethics, then, helps us define a moral code ( Ciulla and Forsyth) . And to make sound ethical decisions, University of California at San Diego reminds us we have to have c...

Networked workers can bring good and bad things to an organization. Instead of breaking it up as opportunities/challenges, I want to discuss it as topics. Teacher's Lessons One benefit to having networked workers is the ease of how information can be shared. In education, we can share lessons and information through Google Drive, Teacher Pay Teacher, or just regular Google searches. The ease at which we can find this information is fast, but it is important to check if this information is reliable and not plagiarized. At one point in my career, I helped to write lessons that aligned to standards and the Smarter Balanced Assessment (state test in Hawai'i). One thing we had to do is find/create lessons but we needed to check to see if they were owned by someone else. If they were, we needed to get permission so our organization would not be plagiarized. Email Communication  One benefit to networked workers is the ease with which we can communicate with each other. We can share do...

The discussion of how education changed over the last year is of particular interest to me, as it is the focus of my DIP. I am really excited to start interviewing teachers and exploring their experiences of teaching during a global pandemic. Though I am currently out of the classroom, I can comment on how things have changed in education in this hyperconnected world for my position this year (where we are currently in-person) and last year (where we were online exclusively for three of the four quarters, except for a few "vulernable" population students). How Work Changed For Me According to Armour et al. (2020), last year 72% of the education field was exclusively teaching online, while the other 28% had some to little telecommuting. For the most part, this was true for my position as Behavior Dean. M y job consisted a lot of monitoring what students were searching up online and calling home when students were misusing the computers we provided. As Husband (2014) commente...

Prior to this course, I was not familiar with the term knowledge management (KM). I guess that makes sense since Davenport (2018) suggests KM is dying/gasping for air. To learn more, I went to Google.   Koenig (2018) shares that KM was once defined by Tom Davenport (1994), stating: "Knowledge Management is the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge." When I read that definition, I think maybe I do know about KM, but I just call it something else. In this week's video, Dr. Watwood summarized Dixon's thoughts that knowledge has moved from individuals (document-based) to teams (knowledge others brought to the table) to collective knowledge (complex systems) and now moves into the fourth stage of network knowledge (not what you know but who you know). With more information readily available at our fingertips through the internet, I could see how this would be important for a leader to realize and use to their advantage.  Dixon (2012)  write...