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Archive for July 6th, 2008

Rethinking the “brick and mortar”

Posted by bmellott on 6th July 2008

Chapter 9 of Web 2.0 gets us thinking about what we should expect from schools now and in the future. Should we create programs that analyze a students strengths and weaknesses and that offer suggestions about what projects or tasks that student would most successfully complete while gaining the necessary knowledge base? Should teachers be tied down to specific school-board approved text books? These are great questions. The reality is that teachers are ham-stringed by overly specific teaching objectives and that the textbook industry is overly embedded in our educational culture. That, however, does not mean that we cannot integrate new tools into the current curriculum. The use of blogs for journals or to post assignments and the use of wikis to collaborate documents can add another dimension to a class and offer students the technology “fix” that they need. Until funding becomes available for each class to be held in a computer lab, however, full technological integrating is likely to be limited, at best, for most schools across the nation. The key is in finding teachers and administrators who are committed to encouraging incremental, manageable changes in the curriculum and in teaching methods until we do have a largely integrated school system.

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