Mr. Fier
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher / Tech Coordinator |
| Location | New York, NY, United States |
| Introduction | As of June 26, 2014 I'll have finished 13 years of teaching and coordinating technology at P.S. 11. I am a strong believer in using technology to augment the curriculum work throughout the school. I believe as Chris Lehmann stated the technology should be like oxygen, ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible. But for that to become a reality I also believe that technology in schools need coordinating, which means supporting the people who use the machines: Students, Teachers, Parents, and Administrators. For some background on me, before my current position I taught 2 years as the technology coordinator in a private school in California. I also spent 10 year as a retail store manager in various Tower Record Stores across the country. I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in History / Education from Beloit College. I moved to Manhattan in 1992 where I earned my MSEd in Elementary Education from Bank Street College and then an MS in Instructional Technology from Touro College. Want to connect here's a couple of ways: MrFierAtPS11@gmail.com NRubinf@schools.nyc.gov Twitter Handles: @MrFier, @EdMrFier, and my students tweet their tech work @PS11Tech |
| Interests | As a Teacher, Technology, Chess, LEGO Robotics, Paper Airplanes, |
| Favorite movies | Pressure Cooker, The Hobart Shakespeareans, Inequality For All, Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête, Stranger than Fiction, Lawrence of ArabiaPressure Cooker, The Hobart Shakespeareans, Inequality For All. |
| Favorite music | Claudie Rubin |
| Favorite books | Mindstorms,There Are No Shortcuts, The Shallows, Savage Inequalities,The Lathe of Heaven, The Night Train to Lisbon, Lonesome Dove, |