At first thought of this assignment I was like great here we go again engaging in more senseless readying. I went to Will Richards’s blog and read a few of his blogs and thoughts of read/write on the web and in the classroom environment. In one of the blogs I read he talked about a school he had visited and they were having an orientation on about the school districts policy on the use of school computers. The goes on to say how they were making it so hard to use computers that the faculty and students would rather not use them at all. I felt this same way when I was in school I would rather much use my own computer then to have to deal with all the rules set forth. If the school were open the idea of encouraging the students to use this fine tool of learning students as teachers alike would use them.
This is true with any new pedagogy people are reluctant to change for some odd reason they are. Is it because they will have to do more work by changing their teaching curriculum making it more exciting for students to attend class. We are entering a profession that seems to frown a lot on change, it not such a bad thing to change. Many teachers seem to hear the word change and the feel like they have to change everything at once but, but to integrate the old with the new and allow them to change with one another is not so bad. To open new ideas and new interactive ways of learning to a student give him more dive to want to learn. As Will say’s in his blog he would change the 8 page monster to “Admirable Use Policy” how if students picked this up and it read:
Admirable Use Policy that’s student would eager to go to class. I do agree that we should involve the use of more technology in our classrooms but only to a curtain extent, use and monitor the use of the internet in the lower grade levels such as the elementary school. But still show them the right way and wrong ways to use the internet ie. Blogging, wikis, and other social networking. This is something that should be implemented at the Jr. High to high school levels. Will points out that it is up to use to show the students at an early age the right and wrong ways to use this way of learning.
This new pedagogy will take awhile to be implemented with most schools but some have already some schools are still stuck on the whole Standardized testing is the right tool, even that still not excepted everywhere teachers still argue about its use. Just as they will this new outlook on teaching but I feel that the new and old ways of teaching can still coexist use both to teach. This is a battle that I hope I’m ready get into the mix of because it’s going to go away overnight. I’m willing to learn more of this new idea of education and technology; I’m up for the challenge “let the battle begin”.
“hooah” Army Strong Ronnie Foster
