Project Tomorrow surveyed more than 370,000 students, teachers, parents, and administrators about their views on technology and education during its Speak Up 2007 research…
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Things are always at their best in the beginning.
-Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)
In an earlier post, I acknowledged that teachers often lose enthusiasm and a sense of satisfaction at school as early as three months into the year. So, if things are always best at the beginning, how do we keep things fresh?
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In our rush to reform education, we have forgotten a simple truth:
reform will never be achieved by appropriations, restructuring schools, rewriting curricula, and revising texts …if we continue to demean and dishearten the human resource called the teacher on whom so much depends. -P. Palmer
You can’t mandate what matters. -Fullen
Although we try, transformation cannot be [...]
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Does School Represent “real life” for students? This question has vexed me for more than a decade. It became the topic for a thesis completed in the ’90’s. In it, I interviewed students about the topic. Paraphrasing and generalizing greatly, their responses ranged from “Of course it’s real, it’s made of bricks” [...]
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“We have to consider what we human beings really are. We are not like machine-made objects. If we are merely mechanical entities, then machines themselves could alleviate all of our sufferings and fulfill our needs.
However, since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external [...]
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Will this eventually prove problematic? Higher Education embraces Web2.0 and Social Networking while K-12 schools often block access to same. Also, while some school districts only ban some sites, others ban all and have a “zero tolerance” policy on all things electronic.
What’s the Middle Way?
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The older the leaves, the more prone they are to the influence of the wind.
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In the last post, I hinted at moving our definition of failure to a more constructive one where fear is left behind and where failure is seen as a necessary component to success.
Even if we begin to change our focus and approach to failure, we need to be sensitive to student’s social realities. Like it [...]
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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successess.
- John Dewey
I would actually take this a step further and say that nearly all true learning is preceeded by some kind of failure. The problem for most of us-and with our (U.S.) education system in general [...]
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Dave Stewart has released the song and video called An American Prayer. This blog’s author endorses Barack Obama for President and wishes fervently that American’s Prayers get answered this time around for the sake of each other, and for the broken enterprise called public education.
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