Posted in Policy on Jan 30th, 2008 2 Comments »
I did my student teaching thirteen years ago. On the whole, it was a good experience. I would hope, however, that the process of student teaching has improved in that time. For the last seven years I’ve been working with ‘student teachers’ from a local university. I put the term in quotes because they are [...]
Posted in Practice, technology on Jan 27th, 2008 22 Comments »
This is another post prompted by something written by Bill Ferriter at The Tempered Radical. He writes a “rant…I’m tired of the combustable combination of whiny teachers and ineffective policymakers.”
In his post, he complains about his colleagues who make excuses for not embracing technology and takes on policymakers who don’t make time available for teachers to become familiar [...]
Posted in Policy, Practice, Theory, Web 2.0, technology on Jan 14th, 2008 6 Comments »
Hey, a girls entitled to change her mind…
Earlier, I talked about why Larry Ferlazzo got it right when he said face to face relationships have a quality that can’t be replicated online. Now, I’ll bring some thoughts up to the contrary.
Here are some caveats to that point…Larry himself, has already had to eat his words [...]
Posted in Practice, Theory, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, technology on Jan 10th, 2008 7 Comments »
I was recently reading a post in the excellent blog The Tempered Radical, which was quoting another teacher as saying other teachers “…believe that you can’t truly know someone unless you have face-to-face opportunities to get to know them.” The post questioned that belief, and wondered if that was primarily because online relationships were generally [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Practice, technology on Jan 6th, 2008 10 Comments »
My class has been involved in a 1:1 laptop pilot for about a year now (as 4th and now 5th graders). There have been certain advantages to being the “Lone Ranger” in this endeavor. I fly “under the radar,” because this is not a grant driven project. Its something we are doing [...]
