tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post5138035210403345039..comments2024-03-15T02:09:23.712-06:00Comments on for the love of learning: Before the computer could change School, School changed the computerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15047405950514440042noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post-19970068591900967462012-07-11T14:36:38.176-06:002012-07-11T14:36:38.176-06:00I'm not seeing that Skinner was trying to make...I'm not seeing that Skinner was trying to make students always be right. I see him trying to improve on lecture, textbooks, and 'educational' TV - something many of us are still trying to do. The fact that the people who get paid to lecture, publish textbooks and produce television shows were more successful in the education 'market' than the Skinner box is not Skinner's fault. <br /> I think he was sincerely attempting to make education more personal and differentiated, which is what current tools can do, too. I think he was very actively trying to assist students to construct knowledge. Skinner was much more than a behaviorist, and most definitely not the 'Grand-daddy'- he followed and diverged from the pure behaviorists, and was not all that far away from Piaget - see B.F. Skinner: A Reappraisal by Marc Richelle.Dan McGuirehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17165245665212961209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post-25468105351686235522012-06-03T08:00:21.360-06:002012-06-03T08:00:21.360-06:00I sometimes wonder what dreams are dreamt for the ...I sometimes wonder what dreams are dreamt for the world by those aspiring to correctness for allsensor63https://www.blogger.com/profile/11879294013686784713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post-378707882677526412012-06-01T09:20:03.012-06:002012-06-01T09:20:03.012-06:00Thanks for posting this video Joe. I shared it wi...Thanks for posting this video Joe. I shared it with a lot of my fellow teachers and admin. We are pushing for an iPad heavy technology integration in our school and sometimes it looks a lot like the "learning machine" video above. Luckily I have created an app that features two colorful thumb prints on a screen. At the moment your iPad begins to stop being a vehicle for creation and exploration, and instead becomes a tool for efficient transmition of knowledge, then you place both of your thumbs on the prints and smack yourself in the face quickly and repeatedly until you knock some sense back into your head.Daniel Hodgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12765303739696151923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post-78029546234095583182012-05-30T10:05:36.247-06:002012-05-30T10:05:36.247-06:00For me, teaching online has been the ONLY way I ha...For me, teaching online has been the ONLY way I have managed to create and offer the student-driven classes that I aspire to offer as a teacher. Esp. in college, where instructors do not even have their own classrooms and simply move from one empty, impersonal space to another, by teaching online I've been able to create a place filled with students, their ideas, their work, so that student projects (websites) drive the classes and the students are able to interact with each other far more than is possible in the typical college classroom with its limited space/time. Just speaking for myself, teaching online allowed me to leave behind the dire limitations of the college classroom to achieve something far more alive and dynamic, filled with good student energy. After 10 years of being able to teach with this kind of freedom online, you couldn't pay me enough to get me back in a college classroom. All my course materials here - http://mythfolklore.net - and student projects here: http://estorybook.blogspot.com/ - with THANKS to Google who gives me the free tools needed (esp. Google Sites) for students to share their work online.Laura Gibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04994025992373244815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2707703066300530859.post-59977546032468659102012-05-30T07:56:25.069-06:002012-05-30T07:56:25.069-06:00The New York Times (August 1915) on Dewey's Sc...The New York Times (August 1915) on Dewey's Schools of Tomorrow before Dewey lost - http://tinyurl.com/82ckguu . I can visualize Dewey's schools with the added benefit of technology as a learning tool. I'm sorry that so few others can see it. The handbook for creating schools where children knock down the doors to get in instead of to get out was written almost 100 years ago. We still haven't learned our lesson.Sue Downinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14075178915389082083noreply@blogger.com