Brad Davis on 2009-03-22
How does a teacher go paperless? I like the fact that she used the word creator here to define the role of the teacher.
This link has been bookmarked by 33 people . It was first bookmarked on 10 Mar 2009, by Will Richardson.
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In the absence of my control, the students have many choices to make. Rather than mandating the use of Google docs, I offered it as a choice after extolling its benefits. About half of my kids are choosing to use Google docs and the numbers are growing as the users sing its praises. In Expository Writing the other day two sets of kids were raving about being able to instantly share their essays with each other via Google doc share, and one absent student edited a present student’s essay in real time through the same forum. It is music and magic to the ears to hear students saying, “That is so cool!” in regards to their class work! I believe that having some choice in the matter adds to the magic.
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Mindy Hansonpaperless
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Does this jettisoning of time-honored titles mean that the paperless classroom is also lacking a creator, controller and grader? Is the paperless classroom also a teacherless paradigm? The answer is in some regards, yes. I have removed myself from center stage. I have relinquished the need to control every class. I have stopped seeing work as stagnant…completed and submitted by students and then graded by me. I have let go of my need to pre-plan months at a time, in favor of following the path that unfolds as we learn together. My classes are not, however, teacherless, just less about the teaching and more about the learning. The students know that I am ready and willing to be student to their insights, that they can teach, create, control and even evaluate their own learning. This shift has inspired a true spirit of collaboration, critical thinking, and communication in B304–it has been an amazing semester and has changed the course of my career for good!
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Kim CollazoGreat example of how paperless can be done!
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While these paper management questions are logical, legitimate questions to ask, I will suggest that as teachers we should be asking instead, must we continue to think of our role as paper creators, paper controllers, paper graders? I say without a doubt, no!
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So how does an English teacher, of all people, go paperless? How can other teachers do it? It is simple. Just change everything you know and believe about how class is run and then the paper doesn’t seem like such a big deal.
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Brad Davis on 2009-03-22
What a profound statement- so hard to do though.
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Patrick HigginsExcellent read about a teacher really going paperless.
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Sheila FrancisAwesome, where do I sign up!!!
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We are able to be in a classroom without walls through these awesome Web 2.0
tools and class is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week! On
the wiki, my students and I build visual classes and lectures, link to external
educational sites, partake in book clubs, share author information, and hold
lively discussions about everything from culpability in Frankenstein to
song lyrics as poetry.
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Tricia Buck
| March 8, 2009
Paperless
Tiger
At the start of the second semester this year, I
declared my classes free of paper.
I vowed to stop the paper
onslaught that has long cast a shadow over my otherwise sunny career as Mrs.
Tricia Buck, English Teacher Extraordinaire.
I had thought often
about going the paperless route, I was just waiting for the right time to make
it happen.
As the second semester approached, bringing with
it an entirely new set of classes, students and opportunities, I finally decided
the time was as right as it was ever going to be and all I had to do was say the
word. When the kids came to class on the first day they were greeted with one of
the only sheets of paper they would get all semester–my trademark invitation to
class–and I said the word:
“paperless!”
When I share the fact of my newly declared
paperlessness with other teachers, they usually ask how I am facilitating the
exchange of handouts and how I am grading student work.
Teachers in my twitter network want to know if I am using Google docs for
the paper shuffle.
While these paper management questions are
logical, legitimate questions to ask, I will suggest that as teachers we should
be asking instead, must we continue to think of our role as paper creators,
paper controllers, paper graders?
I say without a doubt, no!
If, however, paper is removed from the list of roles just
stated, the teacher remains as creator, controller, and grader; in order for
true innovation to occur these long-standing teacher titles must, like the paper
piles, be banished from the classroom.
Does
this jettisoning of time-honored titles mean that the paperless classroom is
also lacking a creator, controller and grader?
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So how does an English teacher, of all people, go paperless? How can other teachers do it? It is simple. Just change everything you know and believe about how class is run and then the paper doesn’t seem like such a big deal. My class has two significant virtual extensions, buckenglish wiki (public) and buckenglish ning (private). We are able to be in a classroom without walls through these awesome Web 2.0 tools
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Mary Rodgerpaperless blog
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arllennium arllenniumvia willrichwillrich on Twitter
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Will RichardsonAt the start of the second semester this year, I declared my classes free of paper. I vowed to stop the paper onslaught that has long cast a shadow over my otherwise sunny career as Mrs. Tricia Buck, English Teacher Extraordinaire. I had thought often about going the paperless route, I was just waiting for the right time to make it happen. As the second semester approached, bringing with it an entirely new set of classes, students and opportunities, I finally decided the time was as right as it was ever going to be and all I had to do was say the word. When the kids came to class on the first day they were greeted with one of the only sheets of paper they would get all semester–my trademark invitation to class–and I said the word: “paperless!”
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