"Flying Without a Net"

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“Flying without a net”

Thursday, June 4, 2009

“Flying Without a Net”

textbooksdon’t motivate

studentsThursday, June 4, 2009

Our students cannot stuff us

into their backpacks.

...nor do we let them graduate with their

textbooks.

How are we preparing students for a life after

high school?

...and who is the net for anyway,

our students or our teachers?

@teachpaperless - textbooks should be seen as filters to knowledge

@edwebb - students must acquire skills of hunting & processing info in world saturated with it. Predigested info

in textbooks no prep

*from Twitter:

@ehelfant - outdated when they go 2press, stagnant/predictable presentation- did u read your math/science

textbook for anything but problems?

@korby_trautman - u need 2 bring up how much u can learn from a book when the author can join n (osha) &

bring up torins coral xperience

@ehelfant - math using maple/webassign 2make interactive content w/instant feedback/real data-that vs pdf or text?

what exactly is debate?

*from Twitter (cont.):

@ehelfant - AP US History gave up text-AP Chem tells kids you can get any AP text if u want a reference to use

but you don't have 2 have one

@vbek - txtbks do not create learning environments where students feel engaged and connected to each other,

the teacher, and the materialThursday, June 4, 2009

MIT’s content:ONLINE

UC Berkeley:ONLINE

HISTORY:

requiresreal

multitaskingThursday, June 4, 2009

What is“Web 2.0”

16,548 unique visitors...

from a total of 137 countries

Tori Scott

This is my class website! I’ve always loved science, but this year was a whole new experience for me. In our class Mr. Nash gives us multiple ways too look at science. There are so many new things to learn that it’s truly fun to experience it in different ways. I came into this class thinking it was going to be him lecturing and us taking notes. This year was the first year for me that it’s all been so hands on.

This class really makes us think. Mr. Nash will just give us something, for instances a visual, and ask us to write about it. Like what we think it represents and our thoughts and opinions on it. I really enjoy doing this. It allows us as students to share what were thinking. That’s one of my favorite things about the website. Were able discuss and blog about the things we do in class. We each get to share as individuals, which is pretty amazing because each one of us think differently. This also allows us to learn on a completely different level.

I’d have to say that if there is one thing i’ve learned this year would be that science is not black and white. Thats a big misconception i’ve had. Through the year though i’ve began to learn and realize that there is always a gray area. The site gives us the opportunity to talk about it and understand more.

Tori Scott :)

Rachel Huntsman

I am a student in the dual-credit biology class that uses the blog you have been discussing. I just wanted to let you know my thoughts on our use of the network.

I really think it is a beneficial way of learning, and would recommend it to any teacher in order to get their students to actually think about learning.

I will admit I was one of the students who took the class just to get this major required science class out of the way before college. However, this coming from a person who really doesn’t enjoy science at all, I have found that I enjoy this class. I feel like I can analyze what I learn and discuss things with other students rather than simply fill out a work sheet and answer test questions.

I honestly think I will retain things from taking this class, and I can say I have benefited a great deal from it.

I also like the idea that other people, such as yourselves, are actually reading this blog and looking at what we are learning and how we are learning. It makes me think about what I will post because I know someone from the other side of the world might read it.

MEDIALITERACY

“...by using the ning site, while just thinking my thoughts out loud into cyberspace, an author heard and sent me a piece of ancient history.”

~Torin McKinley

Whose net are we talking about here?

BUILD A “WALLED GARDEN”

FOR SAFETYor

REMOVE BARRIERS & INSTRUCT?

“What if school wasn’t like real life... what if it just was real life?”

~Chris Lehmann, SLA principal

FREEThursday, June 4, 2009

Mishra & Koehler, 2006Thursday, June 4, 2009

"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate, yes, it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights in a box."

~Edward R. Murrow, (about television)

TECHNOLOGY LITERACY

ADAPTING

TRANSFORMING

"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will."

~David Cronenberg

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