Having a son made me question the place of a computer in his life. When should he be allowed to use one? What rules should there be around that use? Would he be better spending his entire life doing “real” stuff?
Matthew is 20 months old in this photo and has now been using a computer [...]
Thanks to Derek for this one.
As I sat in a class this morning watching students labour over a task that only a few seemed genuinely engaged in, the teacher and I discussed what their motivation was for the task. Essentially the only reason they were doing anything in this lesson was to get the grade. [...]
The first Keynote of L@S was Jeremy Kedian. Great presentation with a real view to change. 20/20 vision was the title relevant due to year one students graduating in 2020 and are we as educators a hedgehog who coils into a ball in the face of adversity or the fox who looks for solutions. I [...]
Second day back in the staff workroom
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This from Doug Johnson
When asked “when are ever going to need this?” by his students about an algebra procedure, high school teacher Dan Sherman says:
Never. You will never use this.
It then go on to remind them that people don’t lift weights so that one day they will be prepared should one day, someone knock them [...]
