By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 17 May 2007 13:37:51 +0000

I have not watched the video yet but what you said about teaching did hit home. I only do a little of the technology trouble shooting but as you said the concept applies to many things
Yous said….
Learning, as I have come to see it, isn’t about being easy – it is about expanding ideas and understandings and then using them in unique ways. Up until recently, I was on the “easy” path with technology, fixing and not showing, using and not sharing.
I know that if I empower people and help them to with understanding and let them create, things will develop and grow. The hard part? It takes time. And time!
I agree and have experienced this within my school comunity. I have been applying these ideas to the “why embrace 2.0″ discussion and when I lead the staff to self constructed definitions and understandings it takes hold. But, as you said, it is not a quick process. This for me is the rub because I feel a sense of urgency and a sense of a moral obligation to change they way we teach. Your last paragraph say it well…It takes more time to show/ assist / teach. Could it be that what we were doing in school before wasn’t completely teaching? Or not the teaching that sticks? As we look at what schools need to be doing, we need to also look at what it means to teach and adjust accordingly.
We have to teach everyone to fish but i also fell like we have to do it now….
Thanks for making me think

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By: Barbara