thanks mike

Thanks for putting this suggestions up on your blog for us all to use, Mike.

Thoughts That Still Mystify

I am still pondering the implications for me as a teacher and for my students of the idea that technology is not a tool but a place to be within.

Assessment

Assessment is an essential component of education. Assessment is part of the planning, instruction, assessment cycle. Also it is a step along the two-way path from enduring understanding to specific learning activities and from specific learning activities to enduring understanding.

Assessment helps the teacher know how to modify instruction for a particular student in order to help the student maximize their potential. From the perspective of the student, the proper viewpoint in a learner-centered class, assessment is a node in a stream of reflective thinking and an opportunity to find out what one knows and what one is still learning.

Assessment must be multi-faceted including many types and styles. Assessment must be authentic and clearly coupled to normal learning tasks.

comments on education and technology

compelling - Each individual has a personal learning environment.

mysteriious - Information is a node, knowledge is a connection and understanding is an emergent metwork.

want to know more -Technology is not merely a tool but a place from which you operate within.

couldn't agree less - The reason we lecture in our classes is so we can maintain control. True that is one reason many people lecture however lecture can be an effective way to impart ideas which can be worked on by students individually and cooperatively as they construct knowledge.

Great Things About Teaching

The greatest thing about teaching is the people. Of course, of the groups of people, the students are number one; first, last and always. To help them maximize their human potential is a wonderful opportunity.