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  • Camping Lisa says
    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
    Knew I could count on you! :-) Show is Sunday morning at 11:30 AM my time. Kevin, can you make it?
  • GingerLewman says
    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
    I have a teacher in mind who takes hours of preps using non tech methods. Newspaper and magazine clips etc
  • colleenk says
    Wow! This show is off to a great start. I love the format. Brilliant!!!
  • JackieB
    Define "tech".
  • JackieB
    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
  • JackieB
    or other "web 2.0" tools with my math classes. Am I tech or not tech?
  • lfeld52 says
    I think it would be important to validate good teachers who may be able to reach more learners by encorp. tech
  • Camping Lisa says
    JackieB do you have problems finding web 2.0 stuff for Algebra classes...I findi it easier for Geometry classes
  • JackieB
    Oh, I know there is stuff out there campinglisa, I'm just asking how "tech" is being defined.
  • Camping Lisa says
    JackieB I am asking if you have found them and I would be interested in seeing them
  • JackieB
    Ah - lets move this to a new plurk then.
  • Amy Cordova says
    definitely. but tech provides for much more efficiency
  • LParisi says
    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
    I'm at church during the show, but I'd love to throw my two cents in.
  • joelzehring says
    Neil Postman suggested that the process of assigning a # grade to an assignment used to be a cutting edge technology
  • tjshay says
    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
    that is a GREAT POINT...however I think techology allows you to take our teaching to a new level...
  • tjshay says
    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
    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
    The things we need to teach - collaboration, globalization, communication - are much bette taught with tech.
  • LParisi says
    Not to mention how to have online communication
  • joelzehring
    there is no teaching before technology. Language is technology. Writing is technology. printed books are technology.
  • LParisi says
    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
    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
    visual and auditory symbols are technologies that allow us to transport our thoughts from our minds to other people.
  • joelzehring
    I can use pencil and paper technology together with postal technology to conduct a remote conversation.
  • joelzehring
    trading in my pencil and paper conversation for a twitter conversation has pros and cons
  • mindelei thinks
    that joelz has a valid point about written and vocal communication being a form of technology.
  • mindelei thinks
    Technology should augment good teaching and not replace it.
  • TechNorth thinks
    technology is most effective in the hands of good teachers and it certainly won't transform a good teacher on its own. :-))
  • vdub144 says
    Well said Jeff!
  • vdub144 says
    Technology isn't end. Communications is. Technology just allows instant communications across time/space much easier, but not only way...
  • vdub144 thinks
    about, Could we Plurk/Twitter without technology?
  • JackieB
    Yes, but does using Plurk/Twitter guarantee learning? No.
  • vdub144 says
    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
    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
    And application of learning/transference is what we call Wisdom. And you need to communicate, to transfer...
  • vdub144 feels
    like his thoughts are all buggered up in 140 char chunks. But its a good exercise in thinking through this stuff I suppose.
  • JackieB
    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
    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
    OK, so which blogger has the Blog Sub-Headline: You can't Spell Teach without Tech"..? No fair Googling it!
  • roswellsgirl says
    Good teachers are resourceful. They use what ever tools are available to enhance learning.
  • kwhobbes says
    you can teach without tech but it doesn't mean that your students don't use tech. I think we get the two confused!

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