Thursday, September 20, 2007
How Public
After reading the two articles on Blogging, I still feel uneasy about blogging.
In the second article about blogging in education, I was reminded of a discovery I made both as second grade teacher and as a parent.
Children's lives are so public today. Chidren are so over scheduled with highly organized, usually competetive, activities.
In sports activities, children are taught to compete to win at younger and younger ages. Everybody is watching and usually winning is paramount. So what if the child loses? Suddenly this 6 year old, having had all these conflicting messages about
winning and good sportsmanship loses it himself, publicly. Mainly because developmentally, he's 6.
I think that there is something to be said about playing the game for the love of the game and for learning how to lose gracefully in a family or small intimate group. So I always encouraged my student's parents to play games with their children. Board games are great if only to learn how to lose, fail, or blow it, first in private, so that they could really learn with loving guidance how to be good sportsmen and the type of student who can look at failure as just a setback. Now, it's the entire community watching and so it is with blogging-only it's the entire world.
Will need loving guidence to get my video in the blog. Will be looking to my classroom family tonight as I arrive late due to back to school night.
In the second article about blogging in education, I was reminded of a discovery I made both as second grade teacher and as a parent.
Children's lives are so public today. Chidren are so over scheduled with highly organized, usually competetive, activities.
In sports activities, children are taught to compete to win at younger and younger ages. Everybody is watching and usually winning is paramount. So what if the child loses? Suddenly this 6 year old, having had all these conflicting messages about
winning and good sportsmanship loses it himself, publicly. Mainly because developmentally, he's 6.
I think that there is something to be said about playing the game for the love of the game and for learning how to lose gracefully in a family or small intimate group. So I always encouraged my student's parents to play games with their children. Board games are great if only to learn how to lose, fail, or blow it, first in private, so that they could really learn with loving guidance how to be good sportsmen and the type of student who can look at failure as just a setback. Now, it's the entire community watching and so it is with blogging-only it's the entire world.
Will need loving guidence to get my video in the blog. Will be looking to my classroom family tonight as I arrive late due to back to school night.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
21st Century Teaching.
That's what I want to do!
When is everyone going to figure it out that NCLB is codependent politics.
What I'm afraid will happen is we will have to wait for the U.S. to fall so far behind,
that we'll suddenly have a Sputnik moment and try to catch up to China, India, Korea -Asia.
The only thing our culture of maveriks excels at is, innovation but you don't get that when you are only trying to get everybody
to to a proficient level that is 30 years out of date.
I am very passionate about this topic. But to confess, due to a overdue work deadline, I haven't closely read the piece.
I will post more to fill out my 500 words.
When is everyone going to figure it out that NCLB is codependent politics.
What I'm afraid will happen is we will have to wait for the U.S. to fall so far behind,
that we'll suddenly have a Sputnik moment and try to catch up to China, India, Korea -Asia.
The only thing our culture of maveriks excels at is, innovation but you don't get that when you are only trying to get everybody
to to a proficient level that is 30 years out of date.
I am very passionate about this topic. But to confess, due to a overdue work deadline, I haven't closely read the piece.
I will post more to fill out my 500 words.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
web 2.0
I just started looking into second life. My son is starting up my Starcraft tutorial which I know is just a game but I think that this culture- gaming culture-community is part and partial to web 2.0-or at least to understanding it. This culture needed an ever enlarging community and alas
it has happened.
I'd be interested in other's thoughts on this connection.
Toni
it has happened.
I'd be interested in other's thoughts on this connection.
Toni
Blogfusion
Apparently, I have two blogs out there. One I started last January when I
first thought I would be taking 830.
If anybody is reading. I am requesting suggestions of interesting blogs to read that would give me an overview of what's out there with out getting swamped.
That time thing.
first thought I would be taking 830.
If anybody is reading. I am requesting suggestions of interesting blogs to read that would give me an overview of what's out there with out getting swamped.
That time thing.
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