{"id":11159,"date":"2020-06-05T20:26:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scoopmedia-develop.go-vip.net\/edscoop\/?p=11159"},"modified":"2020-06-05T20:26:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-06T00:26:37","slug":"marcus-painter-digital-learning-coordinator-evolving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scoopmedia-develop.go-vip.net\/edscoop\/marcus-painter-digital-learning-coordinator-evolving\/","title":{"rendered":"One digital learning coordinator reflects on how the role has emerged, evolved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Marcus Painter became a digital learning coordinator, responsible for helping teachers understand how technology works to improve their lessons, he found himself filling that role in his spare time, then an English teacher himself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now with nearly two decades of experience as an educator, Painter, who works at Twin Lakes School Corporation in Monticello, Indiana, assists other teachers with technology full-time. When he was first pulled into other teachers\u2019 classrooms to assist with various new educational technologies, the job of \u201cdigital learning coordinator\u201d didn\u2019t even exist, said Painter, who was recently recognized<\/a> as one of EdScoop\u2019s \u201cNextGen: Emerging EdTech Leaders.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI was going to teachers\u2019 rooms and helping them with technology during my prep, I was having optional, voluntary professional development before and after school, facilitating what my job currently is but doing that voluntarily before,\u201d he said. “I\u00a0view myself as the nerd between IT and teachers.”
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The job of a digital learning coordinator, or technology coach, as it\u2019s also sometimes called, has become an increasingly valuable resource for educators as they often struggle to keep up with matching their curriculums to state standards, let alone keeping abreast of the latest hardware, software and computing practices.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur ability to keep up with technology in our elementary buildings, that\u2019s a huge challenge,\u201d Painter said. \u201cIt\u2019s difficult for them to integrate technology because what that really means for a kindergarten, first, second grade teacher is that they have to teach the tech as well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

At Twin Lakes, students are instructed in how to use technology for 45 minutes once a week, he said, adding that while that\u2019s helpful for students, it\u2019s not sufficient for teachers\u2019 needs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it\u2019s any easier for that first grade teacher to parlay that into something using a Chromebook in their classroom,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The challenge of managing technology in a K-12 school is further compounded by workforce shortages, he said, especially in his small, rural city, which must compete with nearby Purdue University for teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn an ideal situation, we\u2019d be able to hire full-time technology teachers in our elementaries but because the teacher pool is small and the teacher pool with a tech background is even smaller, and then we\u2019re 30 minutes from the largest town and university, it sort of makes for this perfect storm of us,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Painter said that everyone does the best they can, though, and although he\u2019s no longer a classroom teacher, he still considers himself an educator foremost.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy teaching just looks different now than it used to,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not teaching Les Mis\u00e9rables to AP seniors anymore. Now I’m teaching teachers or team teaching with teachers in their classrooms so that we can come up with ways to do really cool things in the classroom.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

His goal, he said, is to ensure teachers understand technology so they can use it to implement their great ideas, while also passing onto students some of the knowledge of the technology itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c[The students] know everything about Instagram and Snapchat and TikTok. That\u2019s a different kind of technology. What we\u2019re talking about in education, at least here, is influencing their ability to use a Chromebook or a laptop or an iPad, to be efficient, to create things, to create professional documents, to come up with great ideas and then make those happen,\u201d Painter said. \u201cAnd ultimately for me the word is \u201ccreate.\u201d When we are able to give kids the freedom to make something and if we can do that with technology in some way, then that\u2019s when I feel like we\u2019re doing it right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Painter also co-hosts <\/span><\/i>The Canvascasters podcast<\/span><\/i><\/a>, a podcast for educators, which takes its name from the Canvas learning management platform.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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