April 11th, 2005
Last week I yanked the chain of some poor soul up in British Columbia who left this in the comments:
By your way of thinking, teachers are there to merely perform a trivial, rote task that could just as easily be carried out by trained parakeets? Can you be any more insulting to teachers? Why are they even there in your model at all? You obviously don�t like them.
Let me take the points in order.
- No. Toaster is a metaphor.
- Yes. If I put my mind to it, I’m sure I could.
- Because they are required to be.
- That’s a projection.
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April 8th, 2005
When it comes to educational technology, who needs to know what?
I’ve been wrestling with that question for the last couple of days. Part of it is based in the whole “who should be blogging” notion. Part of it is based in the “who the heck are we” idea. Part of it is working through the strategic thinking about the AECT and its future.
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April 3rd, 2005
A New Literacy
Scott Adams did a tremendous post with references on how blogs are used and how they’re different from other online tools. He has a nice collection of links to people who explain, much better than I could, how blogs are different from discussion boards or regular web pages, for example. Behind the tool comparison, however, is an idea that blogs represent a new language – a new literacy.
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April 2nd, 2005
Where can you go?
Once you’re familiar with the tools, the question of what to do with them becomes pretty important. Of course, this is a lot like asking somebody with a car, “Where can you go?” The answer — “Just about anywhere” — is largely useless. Not that it isn’t true, but it implies some limitations that are not inherently obvious to the casual observer. You need something like a road. You need time. You need fuel. You may need spare parts. You can’t drive over water. So, I’m not likely to drive to Honolulu from Greeley.
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