Comments on: Remixing Conversations and Connective Writing http://www.thethinkingstick.com/remixing-conversations-and-connective-writing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=remixing-conversations-and-connective-writing Educator Consultant Author Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Infomancy » Information Power/NETS Followup http://www.thethinkingstick.com/remixing-conversations-and-connective-writing/#comment-815 Infomancy » Information Power/NETS Followup Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:48:11 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=37#comment-815 [...] Jeff Utecht: What does this mean for me? I am a elementary technology teacher so what should I be teaching my students? Am I to teach them technology a.k.a. how to use computers/software? Or is my job to teach them how to access the information that is available to them? I have taken the approach of the later this year. As I’m finding out, and I was hoping, they know the computer, they don’t know how to access information. (The Thinking Stick) [...] [...] Jeff Utecht: What does this mean for me? I am a elementary technology teacher so what should I be teaching my students? Am I to teach them technology a.k.a. how to use computers/software? Or is my job to teach them how to access the information that is available to them? I have taken the approach of the later this year. As I’m finding out, and I was hoping, they know the computer, they don’t know how to access information. (The Thinking Stick) [...]

]]> By: Christopher Harris http://www.thethinkingstick.com/remixing-conversations-and-connective-writing/#comment-814 Christopher Harris Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:53:58 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=37#comment-814 "Am I to teach them technology a.k.a. how to use computers/software? Or is my job to teach them how to access the information that is available to them?" The scary thing is, in this rapidly accelerating world, our job is to teach them how to access information that hasn't even been created yet. As a bit of an information activist, I also think it is important to teach them how (and why) to access information that isn't spoon fed to them. As I say, we have to teach them to be infomancers so they can find the information needed to continue learning throughout their lives. “Am I to teach them technology a.k.a. how to use computers/software? Or is my job to teach them how to access the information that is available to them?”

The scary thing is, in this rapidly accelerating world, our job is to teach them how to access information that hasn’t even been created yet. As a bit of an information activist, I also think it is important to teach them how (and why) to access information that isn’t spoon fed to them. As I say, we have to teach them to be infomancers so they can find the information needed to continue learning throughout their lives.

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