Morality is the values that a society or culture has adopted. The values are what they consider right or wrong. Ethics refers to human behaviors and how we should act in different situations. I think, as a teacher, that we should teach morals, values and ethics by first being good role models to our students. We are training [...]
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Week 14 or Unit 5 Questions
Posted in Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Stoll’s High-Tech Heretic
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Wow! He sure is against computers in classrooms. I have been reading the first 40 pages(Which has not been enjoyable). I really do not agree with what he is saying, because he has taken such a radical view. I am sure he is a very intelligent man, but has he every taught in a regular [...]
Where Have I Been?
Posted in Uncategorized on April 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The end of the school year is starting to wind down along with my sanity. I went on a relaxing spring break trip with my three children. Who showed their love for one another constantly on the six hours drive. Quit touching me! That’s mine! MOOOOMMMM! So as you can image I came back slightly [...]
Why teach and Chapter 11
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Why do I teach? As a teacher, I teach to give students knowledge or skills to help them become self-sufficient learners. When I started teaching seventeen years ago (wow how time flies) I used computers as word processors, because the district assigned me to fourth grade. Now in Kentucky this was the first year KERA [...]
Papert Chapters 6-10
Posted in Uncategorized on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Papert is a very intelligent and motivated man. He has put a lot of work into study students and looking for ways to get students involved in the programming part of computers. He talks about giving students what they need to learn and let them find out for themselves. I like his statement that ” [...]
Culture and Structure
Posted in Uncategorized on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The culture in a classroom is very important. A student has to feel like the classroom is inviting. They have to know that the teacher is there to help them and teach them something they want to learn. The structure of a classroom to me is how you set it up. If it is to [...]
More on Learning
Posted in Uncategorized on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I started looking through some blogs to see if I could find some others who agreed with Papert’s theory on learning. I found an article on ASCD ,a leadership blog site, that was concerned with whether or not students were thinking. It followed along with Papert’s theory letting the students explore, give open-ended tasks, thinking occurs [...]
The Children’s Machine
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Seymour Papert has made a good point about computers and their status in the classroom. The way he describes “Schoolers” is very true to the way some schools are run. There are teachers who fear computers because they do not understand them. These teachers have no vision on how to use them with their students [...]
Educational Equity
Posted in Uncategorized on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are several factors that influence equity. Those are social, economic, political, and educational reform. I think these factors do effect how students are perceived and educated. We often compare ourselves to the people who surround us , family, classmates, and community. Socially we take on values or views from them. In order to assess [...]
Equity
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What is equity, is it possible, or desireable? As a teacher I try to teach and treat my students equally. But after reading the chapter equity is not the same for girls and boys in the digital world. The chapther shows research about girls being more into the social networking of computers, for example they like MySpace or Facebook and [...]
