NECC - What Effective Computer-Using Teachers Know
Posted by MrsVance on July 1, 2008
NECC - What Effective Computer-Using Teachers Know about Teaching: An International Perspective
by Geoff Powell, Peter Skillen and Gary Stager
GS - idea of being able to use computers to do know and learn things that we could not do know and learn before.
GS - Some teachers are simply not effective teachers.
More info at www.stager.org/necc
GP - Good teachers scare kids sometimes - ie - not afraid to do things - not just technology - media making the culture of fear more pervasive
examples of good work - web.mac.com/art.sthildas
PS - YMCA started HS - Authenticity - Students and teachers as co-investigators - modeling - zone pf proximal development - socio-constructivist - google Earth project - Peace on Earth Project - zoom to a place, for instance Bejing - Artwork, music, video and commentary inserted into placemark related to art from China - another example - Italy - info about baroque music as related to performing inner peace. - This was very authentic for this group, YMCA focuses on peace.
GS - teachers should be qualified to work in summer camp - these folks know how to be w/ children - value what it is that children are about.
GP - Power of location - we will pay obscene amounts of money to be in a certain locations - relation to classrooms - rows - laptops and wireless networks expand the location options - when you do wireless don’t forget outside - if students are in an odd spot they will email him to let him know where they are located - While we are debating how much access our kids have to technology many places do not even have enough books - OLPC!!! - no matter where you are you do the best you can, don’t get depressed or distracted by what you do not have.
PS - challenge to get kids to do better research - challenge kids to come up with a driving question that is ‘fat’ rather than ’skinny’ - had kids make a blog around a driving question - took several iterations to develop good driving question
GS - Good at craft and theory / art and science - most educational problems have been around for a long time and have been solved already
GP - Great teachers love kids - moderate your behavior according to cultural norms
PS - Harm Reduction - take kids who have issues, diction issues, tardiness issues etc. - take these kids into a counseling situation until they slowly begin to change - non-judgmental, not threatening
GS - expertise made transparent to the students - thinking out loud
