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Jason Bundy ~ Technology Mentoring ~ EDTE 285: Technology and Modern Practices
Personal Philosophy: Mentoring mission, vision, & goal
My mission to mentor in technology comes from a simple premise: I enjoy it. Or, actually, you could say, both -- meaning "mentoring" and "technology" at the same time. From earlier times (sounds prehistoric) I have had access to being an educator in different forms. However, I didn't know about the term mentoring earlier on, but learned about the role in a related sense as I was trained as a youth in "counseling" for others. One crucial skill I learned is to be a listener, and that skill I believe to be part of my philosophy as a mentor.
I find that my abilities in the workplace have always been rewarding because of the ongoing opportunity of helping others. My abilities to grow through cooperation and understanding of a topic, self-learned or shared by others. As a technology mentor I am interested in many things modern, futuristic, and going back in the past to the idea of listening to others is part of my mission for the environment I work in. I feel that I have an innate skill to help others, proven also by practice both personal and professional. In the end, I feel my skills should be shared whenever possible.
My mission in this project was to share my knowledge of our laptop computer lab with Faustino Ruiz, a colleague who also teaches 5th grade at our elementary school. A couple of years ago, I had a vision, jokingly saying "had I been hit by a bus, perhaps some others would know the password for the computer lab," that is, to have more people have the information needed to keep a valuable system running. Faustino, and myself and others in the past, have commented that we should have more use of the computer. The end goal, of course, is more technology time in the hands of students to further their normal coursework, so after Faustino's comment, I approached him to see if I could show him 1-to-1 ideas I've learned about our lab. I'd listened, and it was time to begin mentoring!