Preparing Students for Their Future, Not Our Past
Jeff Utecht has been sharing his thoughts on education and educational technology here since 2005
The Thinking Stick
What's your focus teaching or learning?
As long as we continue to think of technology as a tool for learning we are going to get caught in this circle of supporting teachers use of the tools, rather than focusing on student learning.
What's your connection speed?
Can you name the software that was used to meet this outcome? Does it matter? Or will the students be able to take that skill and apply it to other audio software in the future?
Fourth Graders know
What interested me the most is in all six of the classes, as soon as I start talking about technology they all get that look....teachers know the one.....the one of complete attention, of wanting to know and wanting to share what they know.
Why Not take a risk?
If I was asking my teachers to take a risk in their own classroom, then I felt I needed to show that I too was willing to take a risk with my presentation and push myself to try something new.
When blogs are just what your school does
Yes we have over 600 student blogs running here in Shanghai. From grades 4-12, students are blogging up a storm. In fact we're getting to a point that the blogs are part of just what students do here.
Allowing students to teach
We have smart kids! We need to be open to learning the how from them, but as educators we are paid to know the why!
