Zucker Chapter: Technology is a critical tool for students to become self-directed learners. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Monday's exploration:
I decided to spend some time and review the class links on our "Class Overview" page.
eSchool News - Highlighted the front page article from the Oregonian about "Individualized public schools" and "College? Who needs it?" I subscribe to this online newsletter and it has very interesting articles.
Information Age Education - This site had a lot of information and I found the site to be a lot of stories and not that easy to navigate. Topic did not appear to be specific order which may have contributed to my feeling that the page was difficult to find items of interest.
RSA 21st Century Enlightenment - "Social Justice in education" section was an interesting read. I downloaded an article titled "The Social Class Gap For Educational Achievement: a review of the literature" by Emma Perry and Becky Francis December 2010. I scanned the article (21 pages) and it looks interesting. There was also an interesting video on "Choice" and how it creates anxiety.
Digital Wish - Interesting site for access to products and lesson plans. Donate to a Classroom is set up also.
Yong Zhao - Watched video of "No Child Left Behind and Global Competitiveness" Well worth the 11 minutes to watch. Making our students "lower-level left brain workers" and we need a community of diverse passionate, learners. Is quality of education measured by test scores in selected subjects? I say no, but... we must have some measurement to ensure students are making the progress needed to be able to have the choices of their futures. There is a level of reading, writing, math and science all students need to obtain to have the ability to make choices for their lives. Lots of thought provoking articles on this site.
Wonderfully organized response, Betty! The Information Age site is fairly new, but if you dig far enough into it, it has some rich stuff. It's from Dave Moursund, a real guru of mine in technology-enriched project-based learning.
ReplyDeleteTodd, I will go back and dig a bit further. I am very supportive of project based learning and with a technology focus all the better.
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