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- Sacha van Straten
- After many years working in radio, TV, web TV, and interactive TV I became a school teacher. I hold two post graduate certificates in education (secondary + online and distance education). In 2018 I graduated from King's College London with an MA in Computing Education. For that I was awarded an alumnus scholarship. My dissertation explored the ethics and challenges of using learning analytics in school contexts. I am a founder member of Google UK's Innovators in Cloud Education group. I have presented for Google twice at the BETT show. I have been a global co-host for Microsoft's monthly tweetmeets. I also trained co-hosts in video skills using Flipgrid. I am a certified Apple Teacher and Microsoft Innovative Educator. Having taught for many years in both state and independent senior schools I moved to teaching in prep schools in 2016. Now I teach from Reception to Year 8 (ages 5 - 13). I am proud to be part of the small group of educators who have taught the entire K-12 age range. I am a full stack teacher.
2 comments:
Watched it.
Liked it.
Learned from it.
Thanks.
Here's a follow-up thought:
By the presenter's definition, I'm an immigrant: a non-native. However, far from being a bad thing, I think there's value in diversity.
I have an aunt who "immigrated" to Catholicism. She's one of the best Catholics I know.
As an immigrant, we have the ability to put on paradigms like hats. We can approximate the paradigm of the native, but they may not be able to approximate mine. Who has the richer view?
If viewpoints/paradigms are complementary and not competitive, instructors are well positioned to facilitate the learning of their students.
(We may not be able to be the know-it-all central authorities and dispensers of all knowledge that some teachers want to be, but I've never believed that's what great teaching has ever been about.)
Rant ended. ;-)
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