Thursday, June 14, 2007
Adolescent Literacy chp. 10 reflection
When looking at the "Focusing on the Skills Needed for the "Flat" world", I think how this is going to change instruction in the future and how it needs to change now. And, however daunting that may sound, it is actually SO EXCITING!! How many of us educators have tried to come up with a new and exciting way to teach something so repetive and boring as verb conjugations the night before the lesson and have sat with our mouths open and our pen down just thinking...and thinking...and thinking....And now look at this!! IDEAS!! Imagine having my Spanish classes design signs, community broadcasts, or a community resource directory IN SPANISH for our Spanish community, that as of right now can't be involved because of the language barrier. Now instead of repeatedly asking them to conjugate verbs on a piece of white paper, I can ask them to create a personalized broadcast to be published for our Spanish community (and they will be conjugating verbs in order to do this activity!!) As a third year teacher I can honestly say, teaching is just getting better and better!!
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That was one of the things I loved about this chapter, too: Real ideas for real classrooms! It's al fine and good for us to read about WHY we need to incorporate technology and such, but Burke actually showed us how. I was super excited about that.
Isn't this just invigorating to know how much more we can do on a daily basis? I pulled this quote from the book "The World is Flat" that supports exactly what you said:
"Some kids are just born [curious], but for the many who are not, the best way to make kids love learning is either to instill in them a sense of curiosity, by great teaching, or stimulate their own innate curiosity by making available to them all the technologies of the flat-world platform so they can educate themselves in an enormously rich way." (Friedman, 2006)
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