tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539556491701946733.post5915842389650094613..comments2016-03-07T09:56:39.425-06:00Comments on Bailey Hammond's EDM310 Class Blog: Blog Post #10Bailey Hammondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17505691354665640718noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539556491701946733.post-67029034191777093122011-04-10T15:05:51.754-05:002011-04-10T15:05:51.754-05:00I think we as teachers are a large part of the rea...I think we as teachers are a large part of the reason students are uninterested in learning. For a hundred years we've been teaching them many things that are in no way relevant to their lives. For one thing we've denied technology in the classroom which is such a large part of students' lives and something they are familiar with. Yes, I believe that students have all the information they will ever need on the internet, but they still need someone to motivate, encourage, and direct them!Ms. Rolinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12755682431293629714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-539556491701946733.post-58450639825516247882011-04-09T11:45:30.859-05:002011-04-09T11:45:30.859-05:00"Unfortunately, while we as teachers may hope..."Unfortunately, while we as teachers may hope our students share his interest, the hard truth is something much less attractive. Students often don't care about learning..." Right. I think we are largely responsible. They only want degrees and we pretend degrees mean something when, for the most part, they don't.<br /><br />"Maybe ... by encouraging students to explore and find topics they are interested in learning about, we can stop the education slippage and reverse any damage that the frozen-in-time system has done to the image of the educational community. It's worth a try, at least." I agree. Thank's for helping us in EDM310 do just that.<br /><br /><br />It is not clear whether you understood that Tom Johnson's post <a href="http://pencilintegration.blogspot.com/2010/07/dont-let-them-take-pencils-home.html" rel="nofollow">Don't Let Them Take the Pencils Home</a> was a metaphor in which pencils were computers. Read my post <a href="http://edm310.blogspot.com/2011/04/metaphors-what-they-are-and-why-we-use.html" rel="nofollow"> Metaphors: What They Are and Why We Use Them</a> (<i>A Learning Opportunity</i>). It contains a <b><i>Special Assignment.</i></b>John Hadley Strangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17484977903995419205noreply@blogger.com