Web 2.0 in the classroom

Comments: 1 - Date: January 23rd, 2008 - Categories: Education related, Technology stuff

I’ve taken the plunge and have decided to focus my doctoral study on the barriers to using Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.  Because it’s a relatively new field, I’ll need help from you out there.  Please send me the names of any articles, journals, books, etc. that you think will help me in my research.

In a few days I’ll post more about what I’m thinking and where I want to head. 

 But for now, I have a paper due Sunday, people, and I need 3 references!

Things that irk me

Comments: 0 - Date: January 17th, 2008 - Categories: Education related, Personal ramblings

Here’s what’s really been chappin’ my hide lately:

1.  People saying, “I don’t have time.”  Arrgggg.  You make time for what you think’s important.

2. Teachers using the “we’re preparing them for college” excuse when assigning homework.  I don’t know about you, but I went to a college where I spent three hours a day in class and then only wrote papers and studied for tests after class.  What kind of colleges did these people go to?

3. Saying you believe in something and then doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to make it happen. 

 4. Blaming the students for data results, as in:  this group of students is really low, or has discipline issues, or gets no support from home, or (pick anything else)

 5.  Requiring students who take a standardized test in Spanish to have a higher passing rate than those students who take it in English.

6. Spring Break is still 8 weeks away.

We are riders

Comments: 1 - Date: January 4th, 2008 - Categories: Education related, Technology stuff

I was reading Robert Frost last night (my favorite poet) and came across this poem.  I thought it was a great metaphor for what we are trying to do.

Riders

The surest thing there is is we are riders,

And though none too successful at it, guiders,

Through everything presented, land and tide

And now the very air, of what we ride.

 

What is this talked-of mystery of birth

But being mounted bareback on the earth?

We can just see the infant up astride,

His small fist buried in the bushy hide.

 

There is our wildest mount- a headless horse.

But though it runs unbridled off its course,

And all our blandishments would seem defied,

We have ideas yet that we haven’t tried.

 

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