I've been doing technology education for a living since 1994. I even spent several years doing customer support for a "major midwestern University" , leading first a departmental, and then later college tech support group.
In that time I've earned two advanced degrees in Instructional Technology, and became a Professor at Towson University in the state of Maryland. I spent seven years as an instructional faculty member, seven years in the dean's office as an Assistant Dean, and since 2016, I am an instructional faculty member again.
I've seen a lot of stuff in my career. I saw a guy lose his entire collection of research images to an email virus, I helped deal with a student's possessions after they killed themselves, I helped the college and teacher education unit retain its national accreditation (without conditions).
I've dealt with students, faculty, administrators, wild raccoons, aggressive squirrels, and even once a deer.
I've been propped up, cut down, admonished, warned, praised, pilloried, and even once detested.
I think it is shameful how professional educators (teachers, professors, teacher educators, etc.) are misunderstood, and often denigrated. I think the root of that denigration is based on a lack of respect. And that lack of respect comes from a willful lack of understanding.
Maybe this blog can help address some of those misunderstandings, or at least suggest how some of them could be addressed, respectfully.
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