Lunch Time Reflections

On most days during my lunch, which I eat at my desk over my computer, I check up on my bloglines feeds. I find it time well spent as I puruse the technology in education readings. One of my "must reads", even though I am not an actual classroom teacher is Cool Cat Teacher. This video was one of the sites that caught my eye after being gone to the TIE conference for a few days. This video comes from the T4 website.This is just another attempt of driving home the point that education needs to "shift".

Will Richardson at TIE

I am stuck here as a digital immigrant, not a native, trying to wrap my mind around Will Richardson's keynote on "Shift". I must admit I am somewhat a "man", or should I say "a woman without a country". I am torn between the ground of the natives and the immigrants. It is a slippery slope. I have been a reader of Will's blog for a couple of years and had a pretty good idea what we were in for. He was passionate and motivating yet, as I looked around the room I could tell only a small percentage of the audience was really getting "it". Sadly, education seems to me like this Quote of The Day from Quentin D'Souza's Blog.

Quote of The Day
By Quentin D'Souza on Ramblings
Tags: Ramblings
From Rob DeLorenzo:
Education is like a train, we have worked to make the train really efficient. It is the best train that it can be; the only problem is that the world has moved to planes. If you were to take a picture of the classroom 100 years ago and today – with regards to setup – you would see minor variations. Why are we happy to get a binder full of paper, which we may use a quarter of it, when there are web sites that contain much more powerful resources. We are paper trained teachers with students who live in a digital world.
…A redux of Ian Jukes

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Keith Dunn visits Faith High School

Congratulations to those students and parents who were fortunate enough to attend the Keith Dunn presentations on Wed, April 18 at the Faith School District. Keith is a dynamic and entertaining speaker who caught the attention of all in attendance.

Keith had a lot of great information on Internet Safety and Cyberbullying.

Welcome

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