Comments on: What Should Students Experience Each Year? http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/each-year-experience/ Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:10:25 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: 100.000 Edublogs | Osmosi delle Idee http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/each-year-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-106 100.000 Edublogs | Osmosi delle Idee Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:50:17 +0000 http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/each-year-experience/#comment-106 [...] What Should Students Experience Each Year? [...] [...] What Should Students Experience Each Year? [...]

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]]> By: Brian http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/each-year-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Brian Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:48:56 +0000 http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/each-year-experience/#comment-94 Kristin, while they are thinking and planning I would hope that they are asking... "what tools are necessary to achieve these goals?" I often ask the teachers that I meet with what their goals are before they can ask me if a certain technology (tool) would work for them. I then try to "prescribe" what tool would best meet learning needs for the students as well as the teachers. My previous posts on the Intelligent Classroom were meant to give base for what a technology rich classroom would look like. However, it still boils down to the goals and outcomes of the learning experiences as well as how often students get to experience and practice the skills necessary to succeed in their future. How many times have we seen teachers put together a one-time experience only to "just get through this" and never do it again? What experiences lend themselves to consistency across years of experience? Kristin, while they are thinking and planning I would hope that they are asking… “what tools are necessary to achieve these goals?”

I often ask the teachers that I meet with what their goals are before they can ask me if a certain technology (tool) would work for them. I then try to “prescribe” what tool would best meet learning needs for the students as well as the teachers.

My previous posts on the Intelligent Classroom were meant to give base for what a technology rich classroom would look like. However, it still boils down to the goals and outcomes of the learning experiences as well as how often students get to experience and practice the skills necessary to succeed in their future. How many times have we seen teachers put together a one-time experience only to “just get through this” and never do it again?

What experiences lend themselves to consistency across years of experience?

]]> By: technotuesday http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/each-year-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-93 technotuesday Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:33:58 +0000 http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/each-year-experience/#comment-93 And then there is the ever present district filter to keep us local and not global. Bummer. And then there is the ever present district filter to keep us local and not global. Bummer.

]]> By: Kristin Hokanson http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/each-year-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Kristin Hokanson Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:29:07 +0000 http://bcsmith.edublogs.org/2007/09/03/each-year-experience/#comment-92 Brian-- GREAT questions...the one challenge I think is in acquiring access to the tools that can enable teachers to provide these opportunities. Our pre-school inservice had our ENTIRE HS faculty thinking and planning, but without enough access to the technology, teachers will struggle. Worth thinking about but still frustrating. Brian–
GREAT questions…the one challenge I think is in acquiring access to the tools that can enable teachers to provide these opportunities. Our pre-school inservice had our ENTIRE HS faculty thinking and planning, but without enough access to the technology, teachers will struggle. Worth thinking about but still frustrating.

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