btw I received some of personal emails /invitations from WE members during
last month , I didnot have the internet access when I was at Hongkong for
my internship , I will get back to all of you ASAP , really sorry for that ,
Leo
2008/11/5 Wong Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hey Peter and Leigh ,
>
> I really like the conversation , and want to bring some of my 2 cents , and
> again from Chinese perspective , I just got back from Hongkong ,
>
> Let me start from the newspaper reading from Hongkong, In hongkong if you
> have been , you take MTR a lot and they give you free newspaper to read ,
> the first free newspaper I got from MTR station was talking abt the Milk
> scandal here in China mainland ( I assume that most of you have heared of it
> ) have you ?
>
> and the way it talked abt the milk scandle is very different from the way I
> read it from here in China mainland ,I teach Media research in my partime
> job , I would like my students to be more self-critical on what they read
> and see , and they need more varieity instead of just one voice , but it is
> obviously not very possible if you buy Chinese produced newspaper , but
> luckily or unluckily we have Internet , though Government have the censor
> here , but still people can be able to read much more different perspecitive
> for the same news ,I think it is very key for our students , I am thinking
> abt using the newspaper in my next course here to give them the idea , but
> again , I don't want to get fired from my school or in Jail so I need to
> think about something else
>
> Leigh is pointing out the very important issue I believe ,is are we
> creating discrimination or bias when we are being passionate to other
> educators , I am with him at this point ,
>
> In China , we have a website called haokanbu www.haokanbu.com , it is a
> very wondeful web2.0 websites , I used it a lot with my students , however
> ,I stopped to use it lately , and many of my students gave up using it when
> they finish my course , and right now , many of Chinese teachers are being
> very optimistic and postive and passionate on using this platform after I
> began to use it abt 2 year ago , however , it is a little bit over now I
> think , they are telling other teachers Hey come on if you don;t want to be
> left out , come and join us on the stage " it will be fun and good to see
> more people in the same stage but , I am worried that it will creat 2 bad
> things for both teachers and studetents
>
> 1 Teacher feel intimidated if they don;t join in
>
> 2 teacher will push their students to use it coz they think many other
> schools and students are using this ,and one of value web2.0 is creating is
> we use what our friends use .
>
> 3 then we might lose the creativity, even making teachers who don't want to
> use it right away feel left out , again ,* web2.0 is creating barrier and
> walls now , not breaking it *
>
> However I think Peter is also right in many ways , I just so much enjoy
> your conversation ,and learned a lot , so please contiue and forgive my
> interupption .
>
> Leo blessings
>
>
>
> 2008/11/5 Maria Droujkova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Education is a set of tools we grab as needed, for our current work and
>> play. Starting from that ("radical unschooling") position... What are things
>> I can be doing with our local math clubs that go beyond personal and
>> intra-club meanings, and toward community meanings?
>>
>> Kids creating purely educational materials so other kids can participate
>> in purely educational projects devoted to creating purely educational
>> materials for purely... This is a bit too self-referential for my taste. I'd
>> like to see kids creating tools so other kids can work and play. What can
>> those be, as far as math is concerned?
>>
>> Asking for ideas.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> MariaD
>>
>> Make math your own, to make your own math.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >>
>>
>
>
> --
> Leo Wong
> http://wikieducator.org/user:leolaoshi
>
>
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Leo Wong
http://wikieducator.org/user:leolaoshi
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