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Are You Paying Attention?
This year we are meshing three initiatives in our high school. Bill Daggett's Model Schools, Thoughtful Education principles of Strong and Silver and the integration of Web 2.0 technologies. While I was shown this video a few months ago, I had forgotten about it until one of our Elementary Principals sent it to me. If this doesn't illustrate all the things we are talking about this teachers and how we should be changing the way students learn, I don't know what does.
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Unfortunately I believe many of us are not. As I give back the last of the cell phones that were confiscated today and go over the new list of websites to block because they use up so much of our bandwidth, I wonder if we cannot make progress because we cannot get out of our own way? I am a blogging neophyte and have taken this opportunity to put the same "video" on the phsprincipal.blogspot.com blog for my staff and community to ponder. Thanks for your thought provoking blog!
You're right on target. We're the ones that often set up obstacles. While we do need to be sure we are "protected", there is more time spent discussing the "what if's", than making decisions that benefit our students. Sometimes you just need to do what's right.
Thanks for the response Dave.
For those of us who grew up in the generations when machines were expansive and sometimes irreplaceable, our fear of technology stands in the way of our progress with these tools in the classroom - it may break I may not be able to requistion another one is the age old lament. I do believe that hope for the future of our students is changing this attitude however. The change has to be embaraced at the top more needs to be done at faculty meetings to introduce podcasts and slide shares that are thought provoking to teachers. The more educational leaders embrace this change the more apt teachers are to use the web 2.0 tools. I will use the download you embedded in your blog at the next faculty meeting I lead.
You got me thinking! I just e-mailed my phone company asking for some advice on setting up free texting between the students in my class and my phone. Can't wait to see what the response it.
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