Comments on: Good Technology:Bad People http://ransomtech.edublogs.org/2008/07/25/good-technologybad-people/ A quest for learning, unlearning and relearning... Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:39:18 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Stephen Ransom http://ransomtech.edublogs.org/2008/07/25/good-technologybad-people/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Stephen Ransom Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:43:51 +0000 http://ransomtech.edublogs.org/?p=153#comment-116 @Tracy - yes, this post evolved as I was writing it... which is why I love to blog - it helps me think. It could be titled many things... and really could be two distinct posts. But, as mentioned, writing has always helped me think - especially divergently. Your comment is so true that as teachers we must have a very strong rationale for making the instructional decisions that we do. Too often we use the argument that the kids are simply more engaged. To me, that is the least of it!! Engagement should be a byproduct of meaningful, effective learning - not the other way around. I always tell this to my preservice teachers and it is a hard one for them to get their head around. They really need lots of good examples of seeing this in action... something that they don't get much of - especially during student teaching. We wonder why our teachers struggle so much with this... well, often our preservice teachers come out of teachers' colleges with nothing more than book knowledge and student teaching/internship experiences that were less than stellar. Well, as I said, I think divergently when writing. See what you made me do? :-) @Tracy – yes, this post evolved as I was writing it… which is why I love to blog – it helps me think. It could be titled many things… and really could be two distinct posts. But, as mentioned, writing has always helped me think – especially divergently. Your comment is so true that as teachers we must have a very strong rationale for making the instructional decisions that we do. Too often we use the argument that the kids are simply more engaged. To me, that is the least of it!! Engagement should be a byproduct of meaningful, effective learning – not the other way around. I always tell this to my preservice teachers and it is a hard one for them to get their head around. They really need lots of good examples of seeing this in action… something that they don’t get much of – especially during student teaching. We wonder why our teachers struggle so much with this… well, often our preservice teachers come out of teachers’ colleges with nothing more than book knowledge and student teaching/internship experiences that were less than stellar.

Well, as I said, I think divergently when writing. See what you made me do? :-)

]]> By: Tracy Rosen http://ransomtech.edublogs.org/2008/07/25/good-technologybad-people/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Tracy Rosen Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:52:21 +0000 http://ransomtech.edublogs.org/?p=153#comment-115 Steve, you raise critical points here. I think that any tool that is introduced to teachers needs to have pedagogical value. This post could easily be named - good teaching tools, bad teachers. We can teach Catcher in the Rye in both good and bad ways also. As teachers, it is imperative that we know what we are teaching and why we are teaching it in the way we do. Steve, you raise critical points here.

I think that any tool that is introduced to teachers needs to have pedagogical value. This post could easily be named – good teaching tools, bad teachers. We can teach Catcher in the Rye in both good and bad ways also.

As teachers, it is imperative that we know what we are teaching and why we are teaching it in the way we do.

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