Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged TTWWADI
Embedded Technology
May 23rd
(I still find it funny what blog posts start conversations)
A great conversation on TTWWADI is brewing between the comments left on my last post and Clarence Fisher adding to the conversation on his own blog.
The more this conversation emerges the more I’m convinced that an embedded technology approach is a great approach to use in schools.
My issue is I’m teaching skills without content. My rubric is based on the skills of creating a web page. The layout, color scheme, link placement, etc. But the content…is just content to create the site. Clarence has the opposite issue:
What was important in this case was More >
TTWWADI
May 23rd
That’s The Way We’ve Always Done It
I was hit this week with a TTWWADI right in my own teaching. It’s the end of the semester and so in TTWWADI fashion the students are creating web sites using Dreamweaver.
The project includes everything we’ve been talking about this past semester. The only difference is the students have had a blog all semester and that is a web site.
The students have been excited to learn how to use Dreamweaver but I keep coming back to: Is this a skill I should be teaching in 6 and 7th grade?
Maybe…before Web 2.0 tools made it More >
