Back in the dark ages, when I was in school, I was responsible to purchase my own notebooks, to keep personal notes for each subject and buy an assignment notebook, and to record assignments. In still have my ”Chandler’s” notebook from my sophomore year of High School. NEVER in all my years of junior high, middle school,
The internet age of communicating has forever changed how we interact with family, friends, parents, administrators and students. I can remember the day when I didn’t have a phone in my room or a computer. The only real communication to the outside world was WALKING outside my classroom to the hall and talking to other
I just sat through another meeting, a meeting of “sit and get,” I thought being in the 21st century we would move to “collaborate,” but apparently not. My guess is the person in charge taught the “sit and get,” method and doesn’t know how to conduct a class of collaboration. It takes more work, more
Carol Broos is working for the Golden Apple Foundation using her arts and technology background as the Technology Coordinator. Her passion is to bring infuse music and technology together in education. She recently retired after thirty-three years of teaching music grades kindergarten through eighth grade in Illinois.
She is on the SET Connections Board, Chair of the Golden Apple Foundation Academy Board, and Poster Co-chair for the Illinois Computing Educators.
2009 Apple Distinguished Educator
2009 Illinois Music Teacher of the Year
2008 Golden Apple Fellow
2006 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Music Educators Journal for NAfME. She hosts a podcast show on EdReach.us called aRTs Roundtable that posts on Wednesdays, where arts educators discuss current issues involving the arts and technology.
