April 26, 2007
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Since these small screens in Haverty 210 didn’t work well with my Doris Day image (and these are some of the computer where my students access my blog), she had to go. Dang it.
But I did find this: “By participating. As adults. With a hunger to learn, a curiosity, asking the big questions, acknowledging that I don’t have all of the answers, willing and eager to look for them. This is the future of education. [...] Knowing how to think, to research, to read and reflect and respond. Knowing how to find the information I need, when I need it, and to evaluate it so that I can use it productively. [...] For everyone who doesn’t have the time or the inclination to learn, do you really think you already have all of the information you need to: A. be the best educator you can be and B. to lead the best life you can lead? Do we really have educators who think they learned everything they need to know to do their job effectively in college? Five, or ten, or twenty, or thirty years ago. That’s mind-boggling to me. I don’t even remember what I learned then. It’s what I’m learning every day, RIGHT NOW, that changes the way I see the world and do business. How can anyone just stay inside their own head, spinning around in what they think is the source of all knowledge? The teacher? Or the textbook? I simply don’t get that.“ – High school principal Kimberly Moritz, Gowanda School District.
And I love this entry too… may have to use it in my multi-genre research example for English 120.
I hope she returns to blogging there, and I think I’ll read more of this blog too when I get time.
Comments (3)
I just remember when I was doing my MBA some years ago that one of our lecturers on IT used to always hark back to his days at Lancaster University. At the time I was working on a major computer project and realised just how out of date he was when compared to the times we were working in. His idea of computer projects might just have well been in the stone age of information technology. Now that I help schools with ICT I really try to keep bang up to date with what is happening and keep my own IT updated .. in fact you should try to keep ahead of current thinking and not dwell on the past except where there were valuable lessons to learn. From the state of some current computer projects I’m not sure that the lessons from the past have been learnt.
PS – pity about Doris Day having to go.
I have no problem staying ahead of the current way of thinking. There are certain root-lessons I keep in mind when creating something new for my students to create/complete/think about… for instance, giving out a handout that repeats the reasoning & instructions for the project are always a good, good thing.