What does it all REALLY mean?
An interesting post over atWeblogg-ed and sorta brings home a thought that has been nagging, and a thought that should, and must be considered.
Teachers as connectors. We’re no longer the best source of information for our students.
Teachers need not be information gateways.
Teachers need to help students connect to the live world of information, people, information that lives outside their classroom.
Teachers coach a student’s trajectory, and begin to leave behind the driver’s seat.
All of this in a digital classroom. The plugged-in.
I read this line somewhere else…and I’ll hunt it down soon, but someone has picked up on a very important point: If you are not plugged into the net, all of the above is basically meaningless.
What of the un-plugged classrooms? What role does the teacher play there?
A thought was posted yesterday by both cleve and J.M. that really is ringing true: BEWARE of lopsided ideals. SCL not as the ultimate tool, the killer app which downgrades all the rest. Instead, yet another tool in the trajectory coach’s tool kit.
