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Dena Budrecki's List: Staff Development
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Educations good enough for the world we knew, perhaps. But that world doesn't exist anymore; so this is about taking a good hard look at the world of our kids and comparing it to the world we present in the classroom.
Because whereas we might like to think otherwise, this is about a kid's classroom having no reality-based relationship either to the kid's own life or to the expectations of what the kid will know and be able to deal with upon leaving school.
This is about a teacher, a faculty, an administration, and a school system having the authority to screw over a generation of kids because those constituents didn't feel 'comfortable' online.
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Sep 03, 09
For Lunsford, technology isn't killing our ability to write. It's reviving it—and pushing our literacy in bold new directions.
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Sep 28, 09
Wake Up and Smell the New Epistemology
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In the interview, Baron shares many examples of people throughout history who found technology to be frightening. He points out that Plato saw the written word as a threat to memory retention, that Thoreau thought people wouldn’t have anything to say to each other if they used telegraphs, and that many felt the typewriter was too mechanical and would disconnect writers from language. Just like these technologies, computers have brought about a great deal of change. While many of us see unlimited opportunity, a lot of people find it downright scary.
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Nov 11, 09
Great article to add in teaching teachers about tech integration
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