Comments on: Information Hippie http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie Jeff Utecht - Bangkok, Thailand Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:46:43 +0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anne Mckague http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie/comment-page-1#comment-29836 Anne Mckague Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:14:55 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=859#comment-29836 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">I shld b @ school, but I'm trapped by the web Retweeting I think, Information Hippie http://tinyurl.com/a5wwg9 from: @jutecht</span></span> I shld b @ school, but I’m trapped by the web Retweeting I think, Information Hippie http://tinyurl.com/a5wwg9 from: @jutecht

]]> By: Heather http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie/comment-page-1#comment-29837 Heather Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:01:13 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=859#comment-29837 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">rt: well-said on the ongoing filtering/lockdown of educational debate http://tinyurl.com/a5wwg9</span></span> rt: well-said on the ongoing filtering/lockdown of educational debate http://tinyurl.com/a5wwg9

]]> By: Jeff Utecht http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie/comment-page-1#comment-27801 Jeff Utecht Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:30:25 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=859#comment-27801 <q> I believe you could make an argument for students being in a 1:1 classroom as low at 4th grade. I would love to see 4th and 5th grade students using laptops in a 1:1 classroom. Even if they were netbooks that only had Microsoft Word and Internet access. I believe that 4th graders are mature enough, and tech savvy enough that a 1:1 program in that grade would work wonderfully if you had the right teachers of course. :)

I believe you could make an argument for students being in a 1:1 classroom as low at 4th grade. I would love to see 4th and 5th grade students using laptops in a 1:1 classroom. Even if they were netbooks that only had Microsoft Word and Internet access. I believe that 4th graders are mature enough, and tech savvy enough that a 1:1 program in that grade would work wonderfully if you had the right teachers of course. :)

]]> By: Scott Hossack http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie/comment-page-1#comment-27800 Scott Hossack Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:24:24 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=859#comment-27800 Jeff I love your rules about laptops and the more we use them here at SAS the more I think we need to move towards your rules. The other day in team meeting we were discussing the benefits of the grade 5 team having access to laptops everyday. Right now almost all the classes are using them everyday. We actually would love to go 1-1, but find it hard to convince others that we would use them. What do you think about Grade 5's going 1-1? I also laughed about the comment about staff damaging more laptops then students. It seems this year in grade 5 we have a few students that tend to drop laptops. I have had three in my class alone. Luckily they were not hurt too badly. Jeff

I love your rules about laptops and the more we use them here at SAS the more I think we need to move towards your rules.

The other day in team meeting we were discussing the benefits of the grade 5 team having access to laptops everyday. Right now almost all the classes are using them everyday. We actually would love to go 1-1, but find it hard to convince others that we would use them. What do you think about Grade 5’s going 1-1?

I also laughed about the comment about staff damaging more laptops then students. It seems this year in grade 5 we have a few students that tend to drop laptops. I have had three in my class alone. Luckily they were not hurt too badly.

]]> By: Jeff Utecht http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie/comment-page-1#comment-27796 Jeff Utecht Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:41:49 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=859#comment-27796 Honestly, I don't care what the hardware is. It could be Unix, Linux, Mac, Windows, etc. What I care about is the access to the information. The gateway to the Internet that so many schools try to control. Every operating system has its + and -. As long as it's running a web browser and that web browser was allowed to access the information I need to teach....then black, white, or purple, the hardware is just a gateway machine. Honestly, I don’t care what the hardware is. It could be Unix, Linux, Mac, Windows, etc. What I care about is the access to the information. The gateway to the Internet that so many schools try to control. Every operating system has its + and -. As long as it’s running a web browser and that web browser was allowed to access the information I need to teach….then black, white, or purple, the hardware is just a gateway machine.

]]> By: SeanTm http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie/comment-page-1#comment-27795 SeanTm Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:53:50 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=859#comment-27795 An exuberant manifesto about freedom, computing and education but what are your thoughts & feelings re: the operating systems which hardware --specifically the Mac platform that's so dominant in the 1 to 1 school landscape these days--are still reliant upon? Despite the fact that BSD Unix is at the heart of OS X, Apple products are anything but free.... An exuberant manifesto about freedom, computing and education but what are your thoughts & feelings re: the operating systems which hardware –specifically the Mac platform that’s so dominant in the 1 to 1 school landscape these days–are still reliant upon? Despite the fact that BSD Unix is at the heart of OS X, Apple products are anything but free….

]]> By: Michelle Baldwin http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie/comment-page-1#comment-27792 Michelle Baldwin Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:20:14 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=859#comment-27792 Information hippie or punk... either way, it sounds great to me. We've been talking about these issues in our school district, and it keeps coming down to 'control.' Adults don't know how to relinquish control and trust kids. For that matter, most adults don't know how to trust other adults either. We're supposed to have a meeting at the end of the month to revise our board policies about filtering and access. Right now, we block pretty much anything and everything. We can't even use the Creative Commons (talk about teaching kids about copyright and sharing!), because we block all the pieces of the Creative Commons. I am going to try my best to stay optimistic and fight for what's best for kids. Information hippie or punk… either way, it sounds great to me. We’ve been talking about these issues in our school district, and it keeps coming down to ‘control.’ Adults don’t know how to relinquish control and trust kids. For that matter, most adults don’t know how to trust other adults either. We’re supposed to have a meeting at the end of the month to revise our board policies about filtering and access. Right now, we block pretty much anything and everything. We can’t even use the Creative Commons (talk about teaching kids about copyright and sharing!), because we block all the pieces of the Creative Commons.

I am going to try my best to stay optimistic and fight for what’s best for kids.

]]> By: Jim McGuire http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie/comment-page-1#comment-27791 Jim McGuire Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:11:37 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=859#comment-27791 Great post! What thoughts--education instead of prevention, and exploration instead of limitation. For some reason I get the feeling students would buy into it. Great post! What thoughts–education instead of prevention, and exploration instead of limitation. For some reason I get the feeling students would buy into it.

]]> By: David Gilmour http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie/comment-page-1#comment-27782 David Gilmour Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:25:14 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=859#comment-27782 This is pretty much what we're trying, with a 1-to-1 Eee PC trial. There's a post about it here: http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2009/01/09/one-netbook-per-child-project-now-started/ More here: http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2009/01/09/one-netbook-per-child-project-now-started/ I plan to get a project blog up today. This is pretty much what we’re trying, with a 1-to-1 Eee PC trial. There’s a post about it here: http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2009/01/09/one-netbook-per-child-project-now-started/

More here: http://edubuzz.org/blogs/david/2009/01/09/one-netbook-per-child-project-now-started/

I plan to get a project blog up today.

]]> By: Jeff Utecht http://www.thethinkingstick.com/information-hippie/comment-page-1#comment-27780 Jeff Utecht Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:36:20 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=859#comment-27780 Yes, some of us are trying and I think you are correct. That we do try to slow things down for us, not because that's that students need/want. We are the adults, we are in control, we know it all, and we want it to stay that way....and that will be our down fall. Yes, some of us are trying and I think you are correct. That we do try to slow things down for us, not because that’s that students need/want. We are the adults, we are in control, we know it all, and we want it to stay that way….and that will be our down fall.

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