Comments on: Weblogg-ed 04/01/2007 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-04012007/ The Read/Write Web in the Classroom Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:59:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Eva McClintock http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-04012007/#comment-17482 Eva McClintock Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:20:33 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-04012007/#comment-17482 this is awesome. teachers are so far behind the changing technology that they are also holding the kids back. keeping up with the new stuff allows kids to be better prepared for future learning, and hey it also lets the old ppl learn cool stuff. ha this is awesome. teachers are so far behind the changing technology that they are also holding the kids back. keeping up with the new stuff allows kids to be better prepared for future learning, and hey it also lets the old ppl learn cool stuff. ha

]]> By: Ken Carroll http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-04012007/#comment-17327 Ken Carroll Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:58:38 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-04012007/#comment-17327 I find Lehman's comment puzzling. Who would actually say they want to 'create the workforce for the 21st century'? Who would be that obtuse? Surely only a politician in the context of economic development would even use that type of language. For some reason there is a widespread belief that our democracy and education are turning us into slaves, or 'cogs in the machine' as someone above says. If anything, technology, and the internet in particularly are bringing about unprecedented levels of freedom, choice, information. I find Lehman’s comment puzzling. Who would actually say they want to ‘create the workforce for the 21st century’? Who would be that obtuse? Surely only a politician in the context of economic development would even use that type of language.

For some reason there is a widespread belief that our democracy and education are turning us into slaves, or ‘cogs in the machine’ as someone above says. If anything, technology, and the internet in particularly are bringing about unprecedented levels of freedom, choice, information.

]]> By: MrO http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-04012007/#comment-17298 MrO Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:15:15 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-04012007/#comment-17298 But if we don't educate them enough to become "workers" in this 21st century world then what do they do? Can we afford to graduate a generation of consumers and not producers? "Workers" means more than "Put part in machine/ pull lever" workers, and I would sumbit that everyone from Scholars to Engineers to Factory Linemen are "workers" in their own ways. What scares me is the number students who plan to graduate and then do "whatever" without any idea whatsoever of what "whatever" may entail. Living in your parents' basement indefinetly is not life plan.... But if we don’t educate them enough to become “workers” in this 21st century world then what do they do? Can we afford to graduate a generation of consumers and not producers? “Workers” means more than “Put part in machine/ pull lever” workers, and I would sumbit that everyone from Scholars to Engineers to Factory Linemen are “workers” in their own ways.

What scares me is the number students who plan to graduate and then do “whatever” without any idea whatsoever of what “whatever” may entail. Living in your parents’ basement indefinetly is not life plan….

]]> By: Susan Funk http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-04012007/#comment-17207 Susan Funk Sun, 01 Apr 2007 22:23:31 +0000 http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/weblogg-ed-04012007/#comment-17207 Hear Hear! I think we need to re-think schools but I do not want to see us grinding people into cogs in the machine. Hear Hear! I think we need to re-think schools but I do not want to see us grinding people into cogs in the machine.

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