Carol Rice (cjrice@usit.net)
Wed, 02 Dec 1998 05:03:30 -0800
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 05:03:30 -0800 From: Carol Rice <cjrice@usit.net> Subject: Re: [ifets] Teachers and Technology Refusal and cabbages and kings
In response to Chris' bucket and search light theories to knowledge
accessing, the teacher can lead and model learning, but, until someone
sparks a real lust for an idea or a topic some students will never be
stimulated to reflect on anything, or to express those reflections.
Launching into cyberspace to see another group or class trying stimulating
things may be the exercize that wakes up the sleeping giants of the future.
Students are bodily in the classroom but are mentally in the family room
clicking through Sega Genesis and Nintendo play stations. Adults take little
time to reflect either. What great poets or inventors communicate their
discoveries today? We have moved backwards into the recesses of
insecurities, and failures-to-thrive in a modern world that offers no
identity for passing here. We need to know ourselves well, old and young, so
that thriving will be no option for anyone, but a joy. Technology enhances
the experience on this planet because it, or they, are the crown jewels of
that experience. Having been positioned in time to experience the 60's, I
was never stimulated except in music, literature, or art, yet, math and
science now intrigue me because I have been better exposed to them. Adults
must take these new paths to learning so that students will follow.
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