Comments on: Technology to push teachers http://www.thethinkingstick.com/technology-to-push-teachers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=technology-to-push-teachers Educator Consultant Author Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Neil Winton http://www.thethinkingstick.com/technology-to-push-teachers/#comment-1791 Neil Winton Sat, 09 Jun 2007 00:01:17 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=519#comment-1791 If you haven't already done so, can I suggest you get in contact with Derek Robertson at http://hotmilkydrink.typepad.com/ He is Scotland's leading education researcher into using games in the classroom. I suspect the two of you could have a really interesting and profitable discussion... (Just don't let him challenge you to a game of Guitar Hero) If you haven’t already done so, can I suggest you get in contact with Derek Robertson at http://hotmilkydrink.typepad.com/

He is Scotland’s leading education researcher into using games in the classroom. I suspect the two of you could have a really interesting and profitable discussion… (Just don’t let him challenge you to a game of Guitar Hero)

]]> By: Diane Quirk http://www.thethinkingstick.com/technology-to-push-teachers/#comment-1790 Diane Quirk Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:00:45 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=519#comment-1790 I think this would mean an even greater need for well trained 21st century teachers who could guide students to really think their way through the information, to make comparisons, to analyze, to create and collaborate. This is way beyond Smartboard technology. Imagine every student having this as his/her physical desktop to work on instead of the kinds of desks that are in our classrooms now. I think this would mean an even greater need for well trained 21st century teachers who could guide students to really think their way through the information, to make comparisons, to analyze, to create and collaborate. This is way beyond Smartboard technology. Imagine every student having this as his/her physical desktop to work on instead of the kinds of desks that are in our classrooms now.

]]> By: Jane Nicholls http://www.thethinkingstick.com/technology-to-push-teachers/#comment-1789 Jane Nicholls Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:07:24 +0000 http://www.thethinkingstick.com/?p=519#comment-1789 Won't it be great when technology is just taken for granted in our rooms. When I first moved to NZ from Australia I was teaching the names of the continents. I had always called the continent which included NZ as Australia, then it changed to Australasia. This is not the name adopted in NZ and I then found out that it was called Oceania. Man, all of my charts were out of date and quite offensive really to NZers who did not want to be called Australian :). Technology lets us change with the times, be up to date and teach the latest. Why do classrooms look like they have been furnished from garage sales and use computers that should have been put on the dump years ago? Shouldn't schools be the place where technology providers support the use of the latest and greatest? Don't you think this makes sense. We should be given one of these table top computers per school. That way these providers are getting their consumers at an early age :) (It was worth a try). Won’t it be great when technology is just taken for granted in our rooms. When I first moved to NZ from Australia I was teaching the names of the continents. I had always called the continent which included NZ as Australia, then it changed to Australasia. This is not the name adopted in NZ and I then found out that it was called Oceania. Man, all of my charts were out of date and quite offensive really to NZers who did not want to be called Australian :) .
Technology lets us change with the times, be up to date and teach the latest. Why do classrooms look like they have been furnished from garage sales and use computers that should have been put on the dump years ago? Shouldn’t schools be the place where technology providers support the use of the latest and greatest? Don’t you think this makes sense. We should be given one of these table top computers per school. That way these providers are getting their consumers at an early age :) (It was worth a try).

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