Comments on: Reflecting about my own learning http://edtechvision.org/?p=557 Visionary uses of educational technology Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:37:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Richard Kassissieh http://edtechvision.org/?p=557&cpage=1#comment-1207 Richard Kassissieh Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:18:07 +0000 http://edtechvision.org/?p=557#comment-1207 The fact that you are taking risks, reflecting, and being thoughtful speak volumes in themselves. If you can get to Boston this summer, Building Learning Communities is in my experience the best tech conference for putting teaching and learning first. Richard The fact that you are taking risks, reflecting, and being thoughtful speak volumes in themselves.

If you can get to Boston this summer, Building Learning Communities is in my experience the best tech conference for putting teaching and learning first.

Richard

]]> By: Heather Delaney http://edtechvision.org/?p=557&cpage=1#comment-1203 Heather Delaney Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:51:16 +0000 http://edtechvision.org/?p=557#comment-1203 I agree that we need to learn from our mistakes and see them as ways to grow. You did not use those exact words, but that is what I took from your thoughts. I am 33 years old, but can think of many ways in which I failed but them became stronger as a result. And then I think of my newborn and my two older children. They, even at their age, have failed and learned from trial and error. When children begin learning to walk, for example, they fall several times before they can keep going. Thus, they fail, but learn from it and keep doing it until they get it right. If all of us took "steps" over and over, we would all succeed and have our reward in the end. For a child, that means being able to walk and explore the world. how much more could we explore if we kept getting up to take those steps? I agree that we need to learn from our mistakes and see them as ways to grow. You did not use those exact words, but that is what I took from your thoughts. I am 33 years old, but can think of many ways in which I failed but them became stronger as a result. And then I think of my newborn and my two older children. They, even at their age, have failed and learned from trial and error. When children begin learning to walk, for example, they fall several times before they can keep going. Thus, they fail, but learn from it and keep doing it until they get it right. If all of us took “steps” over and over, we would all succeed and have our reward in the end. For a child, that means being able to walk and explore the world. how much more could we explore if we kept getting up to take those steps?

]]> By: Martha Thornburgh http://edtechvision.org/?p=557&cpage=1#comment-1202 Martha Thornburgh Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:58:41 +0000 http://edtechvision.org/?p=557#comment-1202 Just getting around to reflecting myself. I think that one thing for me is to know my audience. This is a difficult thing at a conference like NCCE. I know from our district, we make it a point to send novices to the conference hoping that others will get excited and see the possibilities of teaching in new and innovative ways. But then, there is always the seasoned geek out there as well. In the past, one thing that I always told teachers considering going to NCCE is that even if you are not into technology or have any technology in your classroom, this is a great place to go and learn and be in the presence of innovative educators. I do feel like this year seemed to be more about tools and stuff and less about students and learning, but maybe that is just because I am in a different place. One hour is really hard to plan and yet we work within those constraints as a teacher all the time. Just so much that I want to share and not much time to do it. Not sure what the answer is to this except for creating a great resource with lots of added information that teachers can access at a later time and then focus on what the students learning. Just getting around to reflecting myself. I think that one thing for me is to know my audience. This is a difficult thing at a conference like NCCE. I know from our district, we make it a point to send novices to the conference hoping that others will get excited and see the possibilities of teaching in new and innovative ways. But then, there is always the seasoned geek out there as well. In the past, one thing that I always told teachers considering going to NCCE is that even if you are not into technology or have any technology in your classroom, this is a great place to go and learn and be in the presence of innovative educators. I do feel like this year seemed to be more about tools and stuff and less about students and learning, but maybe that is just because I am in a different place.

One hour is really hard to plan and yet we work within those constraints as a teacher all the time. Just so much that I want to share and not much time to do it. Not sure what the answer is to this except for creating a great resource with lots of added information that teachers can access at a later time and then focus on what the students learning.

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