What revolution?
Term break means a time to relax, a time to reflect, and a time to regroup! It is also inescapably time to stop and reflect on professionalism. My head has to stop spinning and my mind has to stop being excited on the one hand, or screaming with frustration on the other.
Like many others in my personal learning network, I am passionate about the changes in the learning environments of our students - at least the possibilities if not always the actualities. I’ve been blogging about this and the information frameworks, tools, concepts, and activities since May 2006. Yes, I know that’s not long, but it’s longer than some and long enough now to know when I am hearing or reading rubbish!!
Doug Johnson in Continuum’s End said
It seems to me that that the continuum between reactionary educators who still find overhead projectors a cutting edge tool and progressive educators who seem to master each tool and philosophy du jour is stretching ever longer every year. As a classroom teacher in the 70s and 80s, we all taught pretty much the same way, with the same sets of tools.
The question of importance to me is not the mastery of tools, but the underlying processes that are important. This is the rub - there are those who, rightly or wrongly, are amongst the elite in terms of commentary or influence on directions in education, who it seems to me have become what my own family constantly remind me not to be…..they are ‘clique-bags’.
“Those” clique-bags are the smart ones - not me, not you - but people who make decisions on our behalf.
Finally I have had enough of the clique and rhetoric!
I’m churning my way through a ton of books on digital schooling, digital kids, 21st century society etc etc.
And its always the same - rattle out the cliches, dismiss everything about the past, bang on about the digital generation and bingo you have 21st century learning frameworks. …
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