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Shifting Frustrations | Reflections of the TZSTeacher
as David Truss suggests in his post, Shifting Education, ”Nurture your colleagues like you nurture your students in your class.” I can nurture through examples–because I KNOW the teachers will look at the wiki. I KNOW they will monitor what the kids are doing and perhaps get some ideas for their own classrooms! And, I also know they will see their kids being more self-directed than they see in their classrooms, because they are not allowed to direct their own learning there.
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The sub experience was a disaster. In trying to be helpful and do school as she knows it, she changed my lesson plans substantially to the point my kids began wiki-mailing me the second day from their iPods, complaining. They were not allowed to work collaboratively, the online activities were changed to worksheets, and they had no time to do the higher level thinking pieces I had left in my plans–so they spent three days doing worksheets on skills where they needed only some review.
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if they are allowed to work like this in their own classrooms, perhaps I can, as David Truss suggests in his post, Shifting Education, ”Nurture your colleagues like you nurture your students in your class.” I can nurture through examples–because I KNOW the teachers will look at the wiki. I KNOW they will monitor what the kids are doing and perhaps get some ideas for their own classrooms! And, I also know they will see their kids being more self-directed than they see in their classrooms, because they are not allowed to direct their own learning there.
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Overheard at Building Learning Communities 2008
I teach, therefore I blog.
David Truss
Not a brilliant quote, but funny to find as an identifying source of 'who I am' on ZoomInfo - lol
What can you do with a cell phone in the classroom? - Teach42
When I saw Jeremy Davis recently, he told me of an educator who uses cell phones in the classroom. In fact, this teacher requires that the cell phone be out and ON the desk. In plain site. Not hidden in a pocket or backpack. So if the student is using it, the teacher KNOWS. And if the student is using it when they shouldn’t… Well, that’s when there are consequences.
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Fact is, they aren’t going away. If anything, they’re only becoming more and more prevalent. School budgets are tight, and here we are with millions of dollars in technology that’s being paid for by the parents VOLUNTARILY… and most schools refuse to leverage it because of outdated policies and teachers that don’t want to modify their own classroom management strategies.
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When I saw Jeremy Davis recently, he told me of an educator who uses cell phones in the classroom. In fact, this teacher requires that the cell phone be out and ON the desk. In plain site. Not hidden in a pocket or backpack. So if the student is using it, the teacher KNOWS. And if the student is using it when they shouldn’t… Well, that’s when there are consequences.
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Personally Owned Devices or whether or not using them in the classroom. - alice's posterous
as Steve Dembo mentions "here we are with millions of dollars in technology that’s being paid for by the parents VOLUNTARILY… and most schools refuse to leverage it because of outdated policies and teachers that don’t want to modify their own classroom management strategies."
Hans Christian Ruud: "Alle" er på Facebook, men hvor er læreren?
Norwegian post:
"I think these are exciting ideas, but I do not know if I completely agree that teachers should be friends with their students on Facebook. I think that it is important that young people have a place where the teacher does not "monitor"..."
Blogworthy Tweets - ELT notes
RT @budtheteacher: We can never know the totality of our influence in the world, or what conversations happen in response to our work.
From Toy to Tool: Cell Phones in Learning: What is your classroom "rules" list for integrating cell phones in the classroom?
. We could teach appropriate cell phone etiquette, while showing students how to use cell phones as learning tools. I would like to brainstorm some "rules" for including cell phones inside of the school classroom.
Here are my top 5 (although I reserve the right to change them as I hear better ideas).
Getting My Head Around Mobile Learning | Clarify Me
David, your post has definitely got me thinking and now I’m getting quite excited! For quite a while now I’ve been reading about classes where teachers have gotten students to use their cell phones to search the web, text, etc and I’ve always wondered about the cost to students. If they already have the portable devices to connect to the internet though and the schools can provide them free access then let’s get going!
Is the term 21st Century out of date? | U Tech Tips
Remind yourselves that your teachers have ALWAYS been trying to prepare their students to succeed in the world they will live in. And then collaborate with them on how that world has changed.
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They all tell us what we want our kids to turn out like. They all remind us what we need to value in education.
But we don’t.
At least not in action. (GENERALIZATION ALERT:) Schools continue to push content-driven curricula. Teachers continue to plan lessons building expertise within the discipline. And if students get our “21st Century Skills”, it’s because of an exception-to-the-rule teacher, choices the students make outside of class, or just plain luck.
We all know that what we need is buy-in. We see the success stories, celebrate the schools that do it, and ultimately wonder, what does it take to make it work everywhere? Buy-in.
So back to the teacher accessibility issue.
How do we ensure that teachers see teaching a 21st Century Curriculum as part of their job?
Teaching Girls and Web 2.0 « Keys and Lanterns…
The video, A Brave New World Wide Web looks at the benefits, more like the imperative of using the web in teaching. It outlines how the making of connections, such an important part of learning and critical thinking, is so perfectly facilitated by the use of web technology in the classroom and makes the case for the classroom becoming a digital entity without borders.
» Intruding. In Public. Bud the Teacher
She was hesitant to invade the students’ “personal” spaces, space that they were sharing in public. She didn’t want to intrude.
Intrude.
I don’t believe that we have the luxury of ignoring our students when they share in public. I don’t believe that we should duck away from engaging them for fear of finding ourselves in awkward situations.
» Would You Please Block? Bud the Teacher
What we’ve decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool.
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Add Sticky NoteWhat we’ve decided is that we will no longer use the web filter as a classroom management tool. Blocking one distraction doesn’t solve the problem of students off task – it just encourages them to find another site to distract them. Students off task is not a technology problem – it’s a behavior problem.
- A brilliantly worded statement that needs to be said! - on 2009-10-07
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This opens up possibilities for students and staff using websites for instructional purposes that in the past were blocked due to broad category blocks. It requires that staff and students manage their technology use rather than relying on a third party solution that can never do the job of replacing teachers monitoring students.
The Day the Filters Came to School | Remote Access
The internet is not a larger version of a library where you can examine the pieces of content that you need one by one and approve them. The internet is fundamentally something different simply by it’s size, scope, growth and ability to change.
Filters do not solve problems.
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Filters do not solve problems. Filters push problems aside so that they do not have the opportunity to occur inside of our buildings. Filters instead allow issues to fester. Cyberbullying a problem? Students spending too much time on Facebook? Filters don’t solve issues like these. Instead, they move them outside of our buildings where we do not have an opportunity to discuss them with our students. Instead we will most likely simply not know about them.
Teachers and Facebook
A great post on Facebook and also some great comments!
Reminds me a lot of my facing facebook post which I mention and link to in the comments
The Power of Educational Technology: 10 Tips for Teaching Technology to Teachers
A brilliant post by Liz.
My favourite on the list:
6. Remember there is great teaching without technology: There are many ways to teach and many great lessons that do not use technology. Respect the expertise of your colleagues.
The Connected Classroom: Supporting Reluctant Swimmers-or letting them drown?
There has been talk in the edtech community for a long time that we need to stop talking about the tools, but I disagree.
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I have to wonder how many folks would jump in at all if they were afraid of the water. As David Truss points out, "too many people fear drowning and never get into the pool” and that in most Teacher Ed programs the amount of technology skill they leave the program with seems to be optional... to me that's like throwing a non-swimmer into the deep end.
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I spend a day or two, sometimes a week “teaching folks to swim.” I give them the skills and we go SLOW.
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Durff's Blog: Swim Instructors or Swimmers?
My point is, how far are we to go with other educators? If we instruct on the technological skills, isn't our responsibility done? Isn't it the responsibility of individual educators to swim?
It seems that too many, I have met them too, educators lack the drive to do things for themselves. We all went to college where we had to study on our own, write papers on our own, take tests on our own.
I fail to understand the mindset.
Do You Know Blog Lingo? | Teacher Boot Camp
If you are not a web head that is okay, because even knowing basic HTML can improve the way you communicate with your readers. Moreover, there are several online resources available to help you figure out what you want to say in your blog and how you want to say it!
The origins of BSOS – Bright Shiny Object Syndrome « Open Monologue
It's about the learning not the tools, but how do we find the balance when helping teachers that are new to the tools?
Thing 4 - Blogging Begins with Reading - dswirlk77 2.0
Contributing to blogs makes you connected to other people. It is an interactive way to communicate. Also, when people comment on your blog or vice versa, you are getting feedback about what you wrote. Are there others that agree/disagree with you?
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