July 2006
July 26, 2006
A TADO Fan
I think your site is one of the best educational sites on the Internet.
I have your site in my RSS feeds and check it out almost everyday. As I
was checking my RSS feeds, to my surprise, I found a link to my site.
Please check out the "Instant Reference" button on my front page.
http://www.thecapcenter.com
Again, thanks for the link.
A re-post of Dark age of information
I wrote a blog entry back in October 9th 2004 called Are we entering a Dark Age of Information? The answer to the question asked in the title is Yes, proof positive is a blog entry that I ran across today called Take Back the Web
In my entry I stated that I think there is too much available information and no system to access it.
Proof positive from the Take back the Web entry..."Why don't you do some professional development for your teachers and show them how to teach kids to find good sources?"
"Oh, no," the principal said. "They won't want to do that. They don't have the time for it."
Dark age of information... Will the student of the future have the skills to know what is real and what is crap? Will the students personalize their education to the point where it becomes a problem solving approach? They ask a question and teacher assists them in finding the answers, find the answers within the massive amount of content both the good and bad content. Giving the students the skills to answer any questions they might have in life. Not teaching them content, but showing them how to find the answers to their questions. An exciting era of education but do we have the teachers who can get us there?
Take Back the Web..."I think it's better for everyone if we just give them a list of sites they can use when they do their papers," the principal said, "and tell them they have to have a certain number of those resources in the final product."
Dark age of information...Who is going to teach the teachers to adjust to this new reality? Is the day where the teachers behind their classroom door, entertain and teach with what he/she has in their head or in their textbook rapidly becoming a thing of the past? Are the schools ready to remove the walls and welcome in the information age?
Take Back the Web...Instead of teaching effective use of the tool, the easy way is to limit the reach of the tool, rein it in and limit its effect. If that is or will become the prevailing view, we are all in serious, serious trouble...
The words from the Dark Age of Information after reading Take Back the Web ring so true...
The Dark Age of Information...Are the schools ready to remove the walls and welcome in the information age? I for one do not think so. I think there is going to be an era of adjustment? An era called the dark age of information. An era where the high school system will not be able to meet the needs of their students, an era where the universities will be rapidly trying to adjust to the demands of the new connect students entering their halls. The administration of both types of institutions come from a time where the students were different, they are not going to understand the new type of student. This lack of understanding will result in a slow reforming of the system.
Until the connected students become the administration and effect the changes need to make the system work we will be in a dark age of information.
Too much information.
Students who understand how to navigate the web.
Teachers who do not.
Students who have no one to show them what is good and what is bad.
A system of education in which students and teachers do not connect.
The result is a dark age of information.
A little pessimistic but still a view through the worried cyber glasses and proof positive by words of Take Back the Web.
Dark age of information support.
This article supports my theory of a dark age of information.
Question: What big idea of 2006 will be extinct in 2036?
Answer: Modern teacher training
By 2036, the forms of teacher preparation that currently prevail in Western nations will have sunk into oblivion. We will have discarded schools of education, the pedagogies they teach, and the certification apparatus that they serve. Such schools, pedagogies, and certifications have clung to life stubbornly for the better part of a century despite ample evidence of their unsuitability. Why predict that in the next 30 years they will finally follow the giant ground sloth into the La Brea tar pit of history?
In a globalised world, mediocre teaching is doomed
Household Internet use at home by Internet activity
Thanks to stats canada for this info.
Household Internet use
Quote of the day.
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
July 24, 2006
A little of everything.
This Trinity Prep School blog has a little bit of everything.
The CAP Center
The purpose of the CAP Center is to help students find a career or information about a career for their future. It also contains links to sites that can help students with their academic subjects so they may enter the career of their.
Thanks for the comment and link...dude
Darren Cannell does a good job of pointing you to latest posts of interest in other sites. Generally pithy and to the point.
July 5, 2006
Going on a vacation
I am off for a vacation, and where I am going, may or may not have an internet connection...so this might be my last posting for a while or it may not. How is that for being sure, or not sure.
See ya in a while or not.
D. Cannell
Multiple Choice Tests
I like multiple choice tests, my thoughts are that testing as in sit down and take a test should be a teaching tool not an assessment tool but that is just me.
A Review of Research on Teaching Courses Online
I was recently handed an article from a recent Review of Educational Research (Spring 2006) that focused on teaching courses online. This article is a literature review covering online education, Internet courses, distance teaching and learning, and Web-based instruction. A total of 76 studies are cited with a fair mix of quantitative and qualitative research. I had a feeling I would be in for a bumpy ride when the authors immediately reported complications in their analysis due to inconsistencies in terminology (e.g., is an online course a World Wide Web course, or an Internet course, or a computer-based course, or a cyberspace course, etc.).
A Review of Research on Teaching Courses Online
Blogs and Blogging
A list of bloggin sites, check it out.
