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Things kids want us to know…
By Art Gelwicks | February 8, 2008
EduBlog Insights » Blog Archive » Sara Kajder
First, she shared the things her kids wanted to be sure we
knew:1. If we had an internet connection in the classroom you are no longer, as teacher, the smartest person in the room. They felt about this emphatically because they all had a social studies teacher in 10th grade who teaches the most dynamic class she has seen. At no point in time is this social studies person the lone person in the classroom offering what’s coming. He has a Skype connection each day and has different experts involved each day, usually community of experts who are involved
2. It is about knowing when and why to podcast or blog or “tweet”, not knowing how.
3. The teachers they believe who they have been working with spend an awful lot of time teaching how to point and click. It’s about knowing this is the place where it is going to amplify my teaching. Teachers she works with don’t have any schema for what that looks like. (The Front Line special was about 90% on how we all should be afraid of what is online and shut it down.) There are some glimmers of hope.
4. They don’t come to us not knowing how to work with tools. They are not multi-modal blank slates. They come in knowing how to podcast, video, but we aren’t taking any advantage of that.
5. As teachers and administrators we don’t know what games our kids play. This is the first generation where we can unequivocally say that as a blanket statement. We haven’t played them. We don’t
understand the ways in which they work, the literacies that are involved, the skills that they are exercising as they move through them.Sara said that this was critical and that there is something really important there that we need to think about.
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