I could take a picture of my class with a digital camera and say that I was using technology or pop in a DVD and say the same as well.

My personal goal, with the projects I host, is to encourage the teachers to think about using technology in their classrooms in a way that everyone learns…..themselves as well. But I am all for baby steps with participants.

I am finding that the BIG users of technology are not attracting me as much as the simplistic users are lately. (grins, please don’t take that wrong.) I am just intrigued by the leaps of faith and pushing past fear that a lot of teachers are showing —

Please check out http://kinderteacher.podomatic.com/ — it is a kindergarten class podcast — and you can see the learning.

Thanks for your blog — I always learn a great deal.

Jennifer

Just saw your post and then went to go read my bloglines account. David Warlick posted an entry (http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2006/12/05/another-pbl/)that has this paragraph in it. It’s not a detailed description about intelligent design, but these are the types of things I envision.

“When I was at the State Department of Public Instruction, we put together a program called VoteLine, where students, during an upcoming election, researched the presidential campaigns, identified issues that seemed to be important, weighted each issue, surveyed their neighborhoods and communities, and recorded everything in spreadsheets (Apple IIe and AppleWorks). They used algorithms in the spreadsheets to project election outcomes. I knew that the project was working when teachers said that students were learning state-identified social studies skills. I knew that it was a success, when teachers said that they had never watched their students walking out of class and standing at their lockers talking about what they had learned in social studies class. Passion-Based Learning”

I agree with Brian that people are often trained in software rather than learning activities.

I like this post from Will Richardson: Dave Warlick points to a study that shows that more teachers are starting to use technology in their teaching. Ironically, not once in the article are the words “learn” or “learning” mentioned in……

Maybe the word training is inherently a bad choice. It sonds like this one shot deal. You go in, get “trained” on a skill, and move on. I just talked about this in a round about way on my last blog posting at http://nlcommunities.com/communities/brianmullnl/archive/2006/12/04/106213.aspx

I’m seeing too many teachers still getting trained on software applications. What I would like to see more of is long term mentorships that move teachers toward changing how they teach and not just changing the tool used to teach what they are teaching now. The problem though, is that most schools don’t yet have enough mentors who have an understanding of the tools available and how to use them to fully move toward 21st century teaching and learning.

However, I was recently part of a team who had to work together on a project document; I set up a wiki and did side-by-side training with the other members. The collaborative writing tasks clearly helped the wiki make sense.

I so agree with Will that it’s all about doing. I mean, who would dream of taking a cooking class where all you do is learn the virtues of spoons?

Last week, I had the opportunity to present two sessions at the LACUE (Louisiana Association of Computer……