Thing #4

http://blog.mrmeyer.com/?p=133

Why I Don’t Assign Homework

March 7th, 2007 by Dan Meyer

I Agreed with this author. I thing this is a discussion that needs to take place in education today. I did not give home work during the last few years in the classroom. I thing it was much better for me and my students.


http://817math.blogspot.com/2006/12/boeuns-scribe-for-december-4th.html

Boeun's scribe for December 4th

This blog was very well done and the student demonstrated a lot of thought and effort. I was disappointed with the comments. They were all about style and form with very little about content.

http://coolcatteacher.blogspot.com/2007/01/spies-like-us.html
Spies Like Us

Ok, good blog with keen insight that brings up a lot of questions.......BUT.. there is is again. An evocative statement that sets the tone of the blog and is clearly ment to prove a point ...but.. no referens to support it. What am I talking about? Here it is....

Arguably, the most highly educated society in history was Nazi Germany. They learned what they COULD do with no discussion of whether they SHOULD do it.

Could be true but the bloger does not give any refernce for the argument.


http://yongesonne.edublogs.org/2007/06/29/the-ripe-environment/

The Ripe Environment

I realy like this post. I think what he is trying to say is that the need for a focus on colaboration is independent of the tools used. All the tools cna get in the way. If the tools of web 2.0 can foster student interest that is fine but the technology is not the end in and of its self.



http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/an-environmental-break-why-cant-we-do-this/

On My Mind 02 Feb 2008 12:01 pm

An Environmental Break–Why Can’t We Do This?

I like that this blog is short concice and makes point quickly and with a minimum of verbage.
The comments are as important as the blog.

Thing #2

I an concerned about the videos in thing 2. They all give various statistics but the first two do not provide any bibliography to back them up. the third has a bib but it list 5 sources, four of which are not primary sources in any stretch of imagination and the one that is to a reviewed site (Pew Internet & American Life Study) takes you to a page that informs you that it provides raw data but you have to have and be able to use SPSS to down load and analyse the data. This is not really an acceptable reference.

One of the references Fisch, K is just a blog talking about video #2.

In other words there is not way to check any of the statistics or claims made in the videos. This is a disturbing trend I see with Web 2.0, fact checking seems optional ye the video clips we saw were clearly developed to impact thinking and persuade. One might argue that they are just meant to start conversations. That is bogus starting conversations with “facts” that may or may not be correct is a very dubious practice.

Lifelong Learning

I am a firm believer in life long learning. As I get older I am becoming more selective about what I am learning. I am deciding what I relay want to learn and what things I can live with out. This is a major shift for me. In my younger days I wanted to learn and know about just about everything. Now I want to learn some things ver well and other things not at all.

The 7 1/2 habits are habits that I have had all my life especial teach others.