Monday, June 16, 2008
#5 Perspectives on Web 2.0
Computers and the web are the future in education, but how many teachers or how long will it take these teachers to lead / go in this direction? As an older teacher, I chose to stay up with technology for my own children, as I knew my geometry skills were rusty, but it is very fast-paced and assumes a lot from people as to how things should work. School 2.0 means new ways of classwork or even homework, but alot of planning for the teacher. Lab time is not play time. Students are ready for this and it is the teacher that is behind. This is the challenge or rethinking of ideas for teachers; but, it can also lead to networking and sharing with other, both teachers and students alike as all contribute. How Texas teachers will implement this with the pressure of TAKS will take determination and innovation. My aside: students need to learn that copy and paste is not a new form of writing a paper!
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I agree that copy and paste are not new ways of writing a paper. Isn't it the responsibility of the teacher to make sure that the assignment cannot be completed by doing that?
Have you ever watched an upper grade teacher have her class do research? It looks as if they just expect the children to know what to do. Watched a 6th grade powerpoint on their country? When you see the Eifel Tower in a ppt of Germany you know that someone is falling down on the job!
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