Monday, August 6, 2007
Square vs. Round
I agree with a lot of David's comments. The world is constantly changing. Our students seem to be willing to change sooner than the teachers. The teachers' main goal is to reach their students. This means that what worked 5 to 10 years ago may not work today. Teachers need to be willing to change their teaching styles so that they can continually reach those students year after year. A teacher that uses Web 2.0 needs to know how to safely teach it to students. They need to be willing to teach it to other teachers so that they too can connect with their students. My school is private, so we really have to focus on safety. So far we have not used Web 2.0, but I can see that it is definitely here to stay.
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I agree with your point wholeheartedly. Education is constantly evolving and changing. Remember when getting computers in a school was a big deal? Now we take that for granted and we're more concerned with the speed of the Internet. Because it's new and mainstream we will always be left behind the students. Do you have enough computers and computer time to implement some of these new things?
I agree with your comment about students being willing to change sooner than the teachers. There are a lot of information out there that the youth want to learn and in many cases end up teaching the teacher. Safety is definitely an issue and probably always will be. However, as we have already gone through Web 1.0, I see Web 2.0 as being obsolete in the future and who knows what the bigger and better tool(s) will be. Good points!
@Kris
We have a computer lab with 15 desktop computers. The classroom teachers all have 1-2 computers each. Last year we purchased about 15 laptop computers. I would say that we have enough computers for our size of school to do it.
Time...now that is another thing. We've added so many classes into our curriculum that we seem to be struggling to get the basics in. Web 2.0 would have to be integrated into a core class for it to even have a chance in our building.
Becky
In this day of standards based education it has to be infused into the curriculum - it can't stand alone. Computers aren't necessarily taught as a topic anymore. The trick is to fine the best way to incorporate the skills into the curriculum. I'm big on project-based curriculum stuff, but that's me.
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