They say if you buy a certain kind of car you suddenly begin to notice how many of them there are on the road. I know this was true when I bought my white Jeep; suddenly there were millions of them. Eerily, the last ten weeks have made me wonder if this same phenomenon occurs when taking a class. Without and prompting on my part, conversations and school problems would revolve week to week around the same topic we have been studying in class.
It happened this week with the Learning Objects, all week, when not complaining about database woes; we pondered the same questions in our discussion forum. Same thing last week with LSM/LCSM struggles as we implemented a testing platform. (Shouldn’t someone tell the companies who develop testing programs for schools that there are security issues with allowing students to save to the desktop and other places they may not have permissions for?)
And so we blog, as the pieces fall together...
2 comments:
Kent,
The underlying thought here might be about how easy it is to fill our minds and direct our focus. That is what we strive to do as educators. Thus, we need technology tools so we can input more that the trash they input on their own. My must, must, must, grab their interests.
RA
Technology seems to keep most students busy. They seem to like working on technology the best, and even learning even when they think it is only fun.
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