למידה, אינטרנט ... ומה שביניהם

It hasn’t changed the content, but it has definitely changed the way I deliver the content.

the oh so awful wonders of tablet technology and more in a school

Welcome to the low-hanging fruit of edtech, where we embrace any technology that brightens up kids’ eyes and makes disengagement go away, even for the short term. And in our never ending (“Keep it new!”) chase to find new apps and devices to get kids to stop thinking about the stuff that they really want to do and learn, we’re training them to be even more dependent, more compliant, more inside the box that we build for them.

It was near the end of the day of the third or fourth session, when she asked us, “Who do you work for?”

We said, in unison, more than a hundred of us, “The Children of North Carolina.” She looked a little puzzled, and then repeated the question, “Who do you work for?” We looked at each other, our turns to be puzzled. Some people, hesitantly called out, “Communities of North Carolina?” “Parents of our students?” “The schools of North Carolina?” “The teachers in the schools of North Carolina?”. After each attempt that little lady would repeat,

“Who do you work for?

Our frustration turned to horror when she blurted out, “You work for your General Assembly (legislature)!”