LParisi says Jul 19, 2008 10:51AM Next week's topic: Can you be a great teacher without using tech? What do you do if you have no tech to use? Want to be in on the convers?
Camping Lisa says Jul 19, 2008 02:53PM many teachers in my school do this...(SADLY)...and even more sadly is that many of them are in my department...math department
LParisi says Jul 19, 2008 02:53PM Knew I could count on you! Show is Sunday morning at 11:30 AM my time. Kevin, can you make it?
GingerLewman says Jul 19, 2008 02:55PM I would love to get one of my non-techie teachers on, but alas, she's non-techie. She's awesome! Working on PhD.
lfeld52 says Jul 19, 2008 02:55PM I have a teacher in mind who takes hours of preps using non tech methods. Newspaper and magazine clips etc
colleenk says Jul 19, 2008 02:59PM Wow! This show is off to a great start. I love the format. Brilliant!!!
JackieB Jul 19, 2008 03:01PM I use graphing calculators, Sketchpad, and a few Applets here and there. I use my projector for diagrams/sketches... I don't do wikis/blogs
lfeld52 says Jul 19, 2008 03:03PM I think it would be important to validate good teachers who may be able to reach more learners by encorp. tech
Camping Lisa says Jul 19, 2008 03:04PM JackieB do you have problems finding web 2.0 stuff for Algebra classes...I findi it easier for Geometry classes
JackieB Jul 19, 2008 03:06PM Oh, I know there is stuff out there campinglisa, I'm just asking how "tech" is being defined.
Camping Lisa says Jul 19, 2008 03:08PM JackieB I am asking if you have found them and I would be interested in seeing them
LParisi says Jul 19, 2008 03:20PM Don't have the discussion here! Next Sunday come to the show. Tomorrow's show - the effect of praise...how is should be used, etc.
joelzehring says Jul 19, 2008 03:34PM I'm at church during the show, but I'd love to throw my two cents in.
joelzehring says Jul 19, 2008 03:45PM Neil Postman suggested that the process of assigning a # grade to an assignment used to be a cutting edge technology
joelzehring says Jul 19, 2008 03:53PM the pencil also started as a cutting-edge technology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pencil
joelzehring says Jul 19, 2008 03:54PM if we're talking about computer technology, that's a slightly different story www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/neil-postman--five-things.html
tjshay says Jul 19, 2008 05:54PM Yes, you can always be a good teacher without technology. The addition of electricity does not make a good teacher and it never will.
Camping Lisa says Jul 19, 2008 05:55PM that is a GREAT POINT...however I think techology allows you to take our teaching to a new level...
tjshay says Jul 19, 2008 05:55PM However, good teachers use the best tools to get kids to explore new worlds & dream & create..Some of the best tools I have found are tech
Camping Lisa says Jul 19, 2008 05:56PM there were good teachers BEFORE technology...I have a friend who teaches in Ethiopia who is an AMAzING teacher and she has NO technology..
LParisi says Jul 19, 2008 06:09PM The things we need to teach - collaboration, globalization, communication - are much bette taught with tech.
joelzehring Jul 19, 2008 06:46PM there is no teaching before technology. Language is technology. Writing is technology. printed books are technology.
LParisi says Jul 19, 2008 06:52PM Not how I see it. Language does not require technology. You and I can be f2f having a conversation and no tech is necessary.
LParisi says Jul 19, 2008 06:52PM The problem comes with not being able to be f2f and still wanting to have a conversation. Now we need technology to allow that to occur.
joelzehring says Jul 19, 2008 07:43PM visual and auditory symbols are technologies that allow us to transport our thoughts from our minds to other people.
joelzehring Jul 19, 2008 07:44PM I can use pencil and paper technology together with postal technology to conduct a remote conversation.
joelzehring Jul 19, 2008 07:47PM trading in my pencil and paper conversation for a twitter conversation has pros and cons
mindelei thinks Jul 19, 2008 07:56PM that joelz has a valid point about written and vocal communication being a form of technology.
TechNorth thinks Jul 20, 2008 03:02PM technology is most effective in the hands of good teachers and it certainly won't transform a good teacher on its own.
vdub144 says Jul 20, 2008 03:09PM Technology isn't end. Communications is. Technology just allows instant communications across time/space much easier, but not only way...
vdub144 says Jul 20, 2008 03:56PM Ah, but is "learning" the ultimate goal? There are 336 dimples on a golf ball. Can you guess how far that has gotten me in life?
vdub144 says Jul 20, 2008 03:57PM I think the application of learning and transference to another is a better goal. Its why kids ask "Why are we learning this?"
vdub144 says Jul 20, 2008 03:57PM And application of learning/transference is what we call Wisdom. And you need to communicate, to transfer...
vdub144 feels Jul 20, 2008 03:58PM like his thoughts are all buggered up in 140 char chunks. But its a good exercise in thinking through this stuff I suppose.
JackieB Jul 20, 2008 04:55PM Well, I don't define learning as the ability to recall facts. I think of it as being able to apply/extend ideas and to communicate them.
metaweb says Jul 22, 2008 03:53AM if we want Ss to be prepared for the 21st century, I ask how can we do that without computers and Web tech? Ss are powering down at school.
Kymberli_M Jul 22, 2008 03:59AM OK, so which blogger has the Blog Sub-Headline: You can't Spell Teach without Tech"..? No fair Googling it!
roswellsgirl says Jul 22, 2008 04:12AM Good teachers are resourceful. They use what ever tools are available to enhance learning.
kwhobbes says Jul 22, 2008 04:27AM you can teach without tech but it doesn't mean that your students don't use tech. I think we get the two confused!
Show is Sunday morning at 11:30 AM my time. Kevin, can you make it? 
