למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

Students are not the same as they were 20 years ago.

Today they blog, tweet, text, listen to iTunes and write a paper all at once. They are technology addicts who are constantly multitasking — in and out of the classroom.

That's how they learn. That's how they think.

Faculty also have the help of 15 eMentors who work across the four campuses. The eMentors are faculty members enthusiastic about using technology in teaching with extensive experience to share.

תוויות: ילידים

The other point to make here is a slightly meta-one: this specific response to Nick's book didn't fully crystallize in my head until I'd written most of the essay (and well after I'd read the book.) Most of us will recognize the phenomena: actually sitting down to write out a response to something makes you see it in a new way, often with greater complexity.

Once you have a blog you notice more, you start to think “I might write about this on my blog” "What do I want to say?” “What will people’s reaction be?”. Over time you get better at noticing and the better at noticing you get the more noticed you get! You end up in the wonderful collective web of “Oooh that’s interesting” which I now wouldn’t ever want to be without.

Many years ago, our father would tell us that you don't truly have a thought until you have been able to write it down. And, then, if you look at writing as an act of self-creation from a historical perspective, it may be only those cultures about which we truly know (that could even be said to exist) are those that have created written documents.

And, as our father would sign his long discursive letters to us…

`//rite On!

writing ourselves into existence

for those of us who write personal blogs, the anticipated reading of your blog by people you don’t know creates drafts of experience — which ultimately become the experience — that are more written than told, more public than social, more composed than expressed.

There's no real way to prove it, but I think there's a very strong case to be made that the information storage-and-retrieval advances made possible by the book were more important to the Enlightenment and the modern age than the contemplative mode of the literary mind.

תוויות: בלוגים

The ability to juggle tasks, to keep track of different streams of information simultaneously, is one of the human brain’s great strengths.

These studies are undoubtedly onto something — no one honestly believes he is better at focusing when he switches back and forth between multiple activities — but they are meaningless as a cultural indicator without measuring what we gain from multitasking.

The New York Times is writing that story for an audience that is eating breakfast, riding the subway, opening mail at their desk, listening to a meeting in their conference room. Probably more are multi-tasking than not.

It’s no accident that most of the great scientific and technological innovation over the last millennium has taken place in crowded, distracting urban centers. The printed page itself encouraged those manifold connections, by allowing ideas to be stored and shared and circulated more efficiently. One can make the case that the Enlightenment depended more on the exchange of ideas than it did on solitary, deep-focus reading.

תוויות: multitasking

Working at the margins of education is a fantastic way to innovate and offer useful evidence that innovations work. I fully support this approach--but not at the expense of the kids who exist at the center of our education system today.

That doesn't give us license to give up on today's children, even if it keeps tomorrow's children safe.

I can't innovate as much as I'd like from the center, maybe I can't help tomorrow's marginalized kids as much as I'd like either. And Jim Gee can't help today's marginalized kids as much as he'd probably like from the edges. So we need each other, if for nothing else than to assuage our guilty consciences for being unable to do more of what we know must be done.

למזלנו הטוב (אני חוזר - הטוב), מערכת החינוך טרם אימצה את התקשוב ללב הקונצנזוס הפדגוגי שלה. מצב זה אפשר היווצרותם של האיים, בהם אני רואה סימני חיים להתפתחות התהליך בכיוון הנכון.

תוויות: שיבוש, שינוי

Whenever access to new technologies increased the flow of information such as the printing press, telegraph, telephone, computer, and now smart phones, there were those who argued that such technologies reduced communication among friends and family, eroded community, increased isolation of individuals, and even made people dumb.

perhaps it is time to ask publicly whether the school should be a willing, even eager, partner in deepening that dependency on gadgets with screens.

Has anyone ever seriously questioned our ‘dependency on the printed page’? I doubt it, because, of course, it is what is on the printed page that is important.

תוויות: דיגיטאליות

ומה באשר למטרות? מטרתה של הכתיבה המונחית על פי ההשוואה היא להביא לכך שידעו לכתוב ואילו מטרתה של הכתיבה החופשית להביא לכך שהכתיבה תהפוך לשגרת חיים.

מה ראוי שיעשה בבלוג בשרות הלמידה? שוב משימות? תחליף מחברת?

תוויות: הוראה, כתיבה, קריאה

תוויות: ילידים, שימוש בבתי ספר