Seek Find Be » Uncategorized http://cbhspeertutoring.edublogs.org A place where learning and joy are equally valued Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:00:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 What the blog? http://cbhspeertutoring.edublogs.org/2008/08/05/what-the-blog/ http://cbhspeertutoring.edublogs.org/2008/08/05/what-the-blog/#comments Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:08:50 +0000 satnamkev http://cbhspeertutoring.edublogs.org/?p=39 Just for kicks I’m playing with Pixton. In the unlikely event that you enjoyed this comic, write me and tell me all about it. I think they have some utility with students yet would love to hear about how others have used them in schools. Admittedly, my comic is loosely associated to common humor parlance and specious in the out there writings of established writes. Its summer what the heck!

There are many questions in the digital world. I close with truths I would share if I were sitting around the camp fire with my inner children and the spirits of those that came before me: I focus of letting it be easy; I soften to the way of allowing; I see the best in me; I will teach by modeling the way we need to be with each other and yes I will play with technology and be at peace with my desire that someone comments on the this post.

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Less than a Roshak, yet maybe its noteworthy that my heart’s in the corner. This was created when I pasted fifteen pages of journal entries into Wordle. Check it out after you drink some water. Thanks to Lisa Lingo for leading me to the artistic world of my words.

]]> http://cbhspeertutoring.edublogs.org/2008/07/24/wordle/feed/ 0 What if we listened? http://cbhspeertutoring.edublogs.org/2008/07/23/what-if-we-listened/ http://cbhspeertutoring.edublogs.org/2008/07/23/what-if-we-listened/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:16:56 +0000 satnamkev http://cbhspeertutoring.edublogs.org/?p=20 Karl Fisch’s blog, The Fischbowl provides a great history of tech-phobia in schools in the US. Here is a review of the most dreaded going to ruin the kids advances that leading leaders in education have complained about from the last four hundred years: slate, paper, ink, store bought ink, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, calculators, calculators in middle school, graphing calculators,  internet, web page, email, network drops for all teachers, LCD projectors, lap tops in high school, grades on the web, wireless networks, cell phones, iPods. Fisch ends  with a rhetorical question: what if we listened? If we listen to the technological change nay-sayers, we wouldn’t  have made it out of the caves of  Lascaux how ever many thousands of years ago.

If we in American public education continue to drag our heels and cover our ears like children we’d better start learning to speak Hindi and Chinese. The wheels on the bus go round and round and the world is flat. Kids still need to hand write and turn pages, yet to deprive our students of the tools of connectivity and choice that a web 2.0 paradigm offers, we might as well start handing out eighteenth century slate for students to address global climate change, the digital divide, HIV/AIDS, homelessness, poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia and commercialism. We must be able to join them on line if we hope to invite them to unplug and hike in the woods or solve world problems in a way that will be a magical hybrid of Plato’s logic and the ease of jotts and blogs.

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