Leading From The Heart

by Tracy Rosen, teaching & consulting since 1996, blogging about it here since 2007. All views are my own and you should take them with a grain of salt, I do.

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Things to think on

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What am I thinking on tonight? image from: http://weblogs.asp.net/blogs/dotjosh/ThinkingMonkey.jpg Chris Lehmann’s post on students boycotting standardised exams: Reasonable Actions for Unreasonable Times and Whitney Hoffman‘s reflective question in response to the post: The real question is why we look at education as a content delivery system whose effectiveness can be tested by standardized six-sigma-esque methods, … Things to think on

“Put technology where it can be best used… In the classroom!”

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[cross ranted as a comment at Stephen Ransom’s EdTechTrek] [and slightly elaborated] I am starting to think that because many teachers and administrators still do not know exactly what we can do with technology there is a reluctance to put it in the classroom. Example – today the Internet had, for some reason, stopped working … “Put technology where it can be best used… In the classroom!”