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I'm not the teacher, I'm the "Lead Learner"

When you ask my college friends from the late 1980's, which classmate was the most unlikely to teach computer skills or computer programming, they all would have pointed to me.  I was an English and Psychology major who wanted to go to law school. Computers at that time were just used by most of us as word processors with the program called "Xywrite" and the internet wouldn't become something we all used regularly for another 10 years. Actually, even if you'd asked my lawyer colleagues as recently as 4 years ago, they would have given the same answer. I was always competent using the programs necessary to do my job, but I was always the one scrambling to catch up on the newest programs - I was never the one out front. And yet, here I am, excited to be your Digital Citizenship and Introduction to Computer Science teacher this year. Since entering teaching, I've used Google products constantly and they are 2nd nature to me and I feel very confident that I ca
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