I can't get my 5th grade teacher to build a webpage for that same reason. The few times he did, he got 0 feeback that it was worth his time. He is one of the people I show my technology to first, because I know he will not spend his time working on something unless he knows it will have a positive effect to his teaching. Now if my students had each a laptop and internet access at home, I'd probably see more of my "not worth my time" teachers using web resources and other tech integration in the classroom.
Bjorn Behrendt Proctor School District [EMAIL PROTECTED] P.s. This is my first post to the VAGUE list. Thank you Paul Flint for the comments about my presentation at FOSSVT. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Hefferon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 7, 2008 11:08:02 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: FOSSVT conference... Anyone here going? Contact info? On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 15:08 -0400, Rion D'Luz wrote: > I can see that many/most students may need someone there, but is physicality > the issue? > How about remote access? Videoconf'ing or interacting via CCTV and the > Web/IM? > I sense you are implying that there are no ways to change the boundaries of > the physical classroom. > While that may be true of some curricula in the K-16 system, is it true for > all learning? I am saying that. I don't know anything about teaching in India, I don't know anything about teaching people who have been doing cutting edge research for 30 years and only need to be brought up to speed on a new technique, I don't know anything about teaching working people who believe that their ticket to get ahead is getting a degree at night. But I know my students and the mutual presence in the classroom makes a tremendous difference-- it is necessary. I've been to lots of meetings and seen the bullet points and found them compelling. I've then taken those points out of the meetings to my teaching, only to find that for my students they don't happen. For instance, I've in the past developed extensive online materials only to find through examination of the logs that there were 0-many visits. I can name a fair number of other instances. So I am a skeptic. Jim
