Comments on: Back to basics? http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2008/07/18/back-to-basics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=back-to-basics Thoughts About Empowering Students with Technology Wed, 08 Feb 2012 13:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Shelley Gibb http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2008/07/18/back-to-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-32712 Shelley Gibb Mon, 25 Aug 2008 03:26:49 +0000 http://blog.genyes.com/?p=430#comment-32712 I really like the way this story focuses on the students and challenges our assumptions about "the way things were". It is true that I tend to think of schooling in the past as more didactic. It's an easy stereotype - I am even reading a text book which emphasises this very clearly right now! (there has been much class discussion around our text). I agree with Robert Jones that the principles of "new learning" have been around before the advent of e-learning 2.0. I think the benefit of e-Learning 2.0 is that it takes this idea of reflection and focus on the individual into a larger setting than the bounds of the classroom. I really like the way this story focuses on the students and challenges our assumptions about “the way things were”. It is true that I tend to think of schooling in the past as more didactic. It’s an easy stereotype – I am even reading a text book which emphasises this very clearly right now! (there has been much class discussion around our text).

I agree with Robert Jones that the principles of “new learning” have been around before the advent of e-learning 2.0. I think the benefit of e-Learning 2.0 is that it takes this idea of reflection and focus on the individual into a larger setting than the bounds of the classroom.

]]> By: Clay Burell http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2008/07/18/back-to-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-25439 Clay Burell Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:13:51 +0000 http://blog.genyes.com/?p=430#comment-25439 Hate to leave the cheesy "nice post" echo, Sylvia, but jeez, I can't help it: Nice post. It's so much less about tools than about freaking getting students to want to grow and learn, instead of escape and stay ignorant. Hate to leave the cheesy “nice post” echo, Sylvia, but jeez, I can’t help it:

Nice post.

It’s so much less about tools than about freaking getting students to want to grow and learn, instead of escape and stay ignorant.

]]> By: Dean ShareskI i http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2008/07/18/back-to-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-25219 Dean ShareskI i Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:45:07 +0000 http://blog.genyes.com/?p=430#comment-25219 Nice reminder that good teaching is good teaching. My father-in-law is a retired history teacher who had a reputation of being an outstanding teacher. He often comments to me about how he'd love to be teaching today knowing what he'd be able to add to what he did. Being able to provide his students with richer resources, more opportunities to demonstrate learning and the ability to connect with experts. But mostly helping work hard and learn lots. We've always been able to do that. Nice reminder that good teaching is good teaching. My father-in-law is a retired history teacher who had a reputation of being an outstanding teacher. He often comments to me about how he’d love to be teaching today knowing what he’d be able to add to what he did. Being able to provide his students with richer resources, more opportunities to demonstrate learning and the ability to connect with experts. But mostly helping work hard and learn lots. We’ve always been able to do that.

]]> By: Elaine Talbert http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2008/07/18/back-to-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-25196 Elaine Talbert Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:49:26 +0000 http://blog.genyes.com/?p=430#comment-25196 Very topical post! In times that involve massive transformations in any system, people often yearn for times past, when things were better, easier ... . They only ever existed in individual or "collective" imaginations. In a teaching repertoire, there is room for many tools of all eras (slates and ink excluded). I remember fondly the drill and kill of beginning each day with a rapid run through of the times tables in Year 4. In fact, what was that but a rhythmic approach to a relatively boring but valuable piece of mathematical knowledge. As Tom Barrett, is saying a "blended" approach as quality teaching may just help us get through these interesting times (old Chinese curse?) and at the same time, we continue to move ourselves and of course that "late majority" ever forward. Elaine Very topical post!
In times that involve massive transformations in any system, people often yearn for times past, when things were better, easier … .
They only ever existed in individual or “collective” imaginations.
In a teaching repertoire, there is room for many tools of all eras (slates and ink excluded).
I remember fondly the drill and kill of beginning each day with a rapid run through of the times tables in Year 4. In fact, what was that but a rhythmic approach to a relatively boring but valuable piece of mathematical knowledge.

As Tom Barrett, is saying a “blended” approach as quality teaching may just help us get through these interesting times (old Chinese curse?) and at the same time, we continue to move ourselves and of course that “late majority” ever forward.

Elaine

]]> By: Robert Jones http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2008/07/18/back-to-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-25187 Robert Jones Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:19:51 +0000 http://blog.genyes.com/?p=430#comment-25187 Excellent story! Your last paragraph should be widely read, and should sound the death knell of all this "Education 2.0" rubbish! The ideas are not rubbish, but the notions that they are new and relevant particularly to these times most definitely are. Excellent story!

Your last paragraph should be widely read, and should sound the death knell of all this “Education 2.0″ rubbish! The ideas are not rubbish, but the notions that they are new and relevant particularly to these times most definitely are.

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