Comments on: Draft 5 of an article about Computer Integration http://filmrd.edublogs.org/2009/05/19/draft-5-of-an-article-about-computer-integration/ Kingswood Regional Middle School Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:29:14 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Cyndee Perkins http://filmrd.edublogs.org/2009/05/19/draft-5-of-an-article-about-computer-integration/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Cyndee Perkins Wed, 20 May 2009 19:39:06 +0000 http://filmrd.edublogs.org/?p=77#comment-8 Rick- Your collaboration with Arthur Viens is an inspiration and your joint collaboration is the secret to your success! Occasionally we in COMPUTER EXPLORERS find that the core content teachers are reluctant to participate in project-based learning, responding "We don't have the time. We have to prepare for the tests." Although I understand the pressure they are under, I regret that they don't have the excitement of participating in REAL learning any more! More projects like yours may rekindle their enthusiasm. Cyndee Perkins Director, Curriculum and Program Development COMPUTER EXPLORERS http://www.computerexplorers.com Rick-
Your collaboration with Arthur Viens is an inspiration and your joint collaboration is the secret to your success! Occasionally we in COMPUTER EXPLORERS find that the core content teachers are reluctant to participate in project-based learning, responding “We don’t have the time. We have to prepare for the tests.” Although I understand the pressure they are under, I regret that they don’t have the excitement of participating in REAL learning any more! More projects like yours may rekindle their enthusiasm.

Cyndee Perkins
Director, Curriculum and Program Development
COMPUTER EXPLORERS
http://www.computerexplorers.com

]]> By: Tom Loughran http://filmrd.edublogs.org/2009/05/19/draft-5-of-an-article-about-computer-integration/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Tom Loughran Tue, 19 May 2009 17:47:09 +0000 http://filmrd.edublogs.org/?p=77#comment-6 Rick, Thanks for posting a detailed example of an assignment for 21st century middle schoolers. I hadn't read Tim Tyson's quote before, but both of you seem to me to have it just right: we warehouse students, now, until they turn 22 or so, and then expect them to be productive citizens in a civic life which has typically meant little to them for years. And the collaboration tools they'll need to make an impact have by then been treated as toys for private recreation and socialization. Rather than just paying lip service to a distant "real world" and leaving marketers to misshape their attitudes toward the tools they will need to shape it, your kind of assignment respectfully engages students as collaborators before they are old enough to believe that they can't change the world and care less about whether they do. Kudos. Rick,

Thanks for posting a detailed example of an assignment for 21st century middle schoolers. I hadn’t read Tim Tyson’s quote before, but both of you seem to me to have it just right: we warehouse students, now, until they turn 22 or so, and then expect them to be productive citizens in a civic life which has typically meant little to them for years. And the collaboration tools they’ll need to make an impact have by then been treated as toys for private recreation and socialization. Rather than just paying lip service to a distant “real world” and leaving marketers to misshape their attitudes toward the tools they will need to shape it, your kind of assignment respectfully engages students as collaborators before they are old enough to believe that they can’t change the world and care less about whether they do. Kudos.

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