Many bloggers have written complaining about teachers not using technology in their classrooms. Rather than complain, Jeff Utecht’s recent post on “Evaluating Technology Use” established a rubric for evaluating technology use. But what if you are a new teacher or you aren’t using technology in your classroom now? It’s not reasonable to expect that you’re [...]
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I have a sister post to this going out on my own blog at Miz Mercer.
Lots of mostly unpleasant conversations about folks resisting the lure of technology in the classroom. This round of the conversation started on with a blogger and blog I greatly admire, Scott McLeod’s Dangerously Irrelevant. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Policy, Practice, Theory on Dec 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
Okay, (now you know it’s Alice writing) since there was a mixup with authorship, I wanted to say that this post will be from both Michaele and me whatever the credits come up with…This starts from an email I got from Michaele today about phonics based instruction, and the [...]
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