Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Tech savvy students

I accept that my students are more computer literate than I am - in fact I can remember the first personal computer I saw in 1980 in Poplar, Montana - it had a 6 inch screen and was essentially a word processor - the teacher was very panicky about who had acces to it! I did not - then a job in the late 80's where we had a computer taht was used pretty much only to run reports...
So here we are today, when I tell someone to Google it to find out info I would have turned to a book and time to research - this is good! I use it myself.
The trick is to teach our students to be selective and not just use whatever reference pops up first as a credible source of viable information.
But I do not see it as my job to guide their networking and social time on the internet!

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Digital Learning

Digital learning
I have been watching a commercial on TV where a man is apologizing to the nation and saying that we have been teaching wrong - is this true? Is thatthe message we want to put out there - I feel he implies that digital learning is the only valid type of learning, bear in mind he is selling a digital university.
Hmmmmm, is my knowledge less valuable because it is in human form...
will kids look back someday and say i had a great teacher - model 2416ADT
not, that Mrs. K sure told some great stories....