In this blog post of Mr. Spences, I'm a papermate. I'm a Ticonderoga. It supposed to be a mock of the, "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" commercials. The papermate is the PC and the Ticonderoga is the Mac. As you notice in the picture above, the PC is the heavier character and the Mac is the slim "cooler" looking character.
Why Were Your Kids Playing Games?
I love how this story is told and the sarcasm within. The basis of this story is that the principal walks by and sees a classroom where the kids were laughing while playing a game. The principal then calls the teacher into his office to talk to him about what he saw in his classroom. The teacher begins to explain that the students were working on an advanced simulation and the kids were drawing and reading. The students were engaged and having fun. The principal interrupts the teacher and explains that games are not allowed in the classroom period!
When students are engaged in the subjects they're learning it encourages them to actually want to learn what you're teaching and to put forth an effort in their work. No student likes "burp back" education, meaning doing the same routine everyday where teachers lecture, and students memorize the material and recite it back. It is important to make learning fun and keep your students engaged.
Don't teach your kids this stuff. Please?
In this post Mr. McLeod talks about the challenges that teachers face with dealing with social media. How the older generation looks at computers and everything that comes along with them to be bad, that children are not trustworthy. They will abuse the freedom of using the Internet in the classroom. However, as teachers it is our job to educate students on both sides of the spectrum, the good and bad that comes with social media. Although as teachers, we will not be able to educate students on every bad and good thing that comes with multimedia, it is worth it to teach students everything that we know and can learn together as a class. Multimedia is constantly changing and as teachers we need to not be afraid on jumping in head first and taking the challenge to learn all that we can to benefit our students.
You got the metaphors in the cartoon.
ReplyDeleteYou missed the meaning of Dr. Mcleod's post. It is a sarcastic commentary on fears which are unfounded and, in fact, will undermine the chances of children who are kept from maximizing their use of technology.