Comments on: NETS-T and Awareness http://atticmooses.com/blog/2008/04/30/180/ teaching in an e-world Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:16:50 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sean http://atticmooses.com/blog/2008/04/30/180/comment-page-1/#comment-42512 sean Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:01:14 +0000 http://atticmooses.com/blog/2008/04/30/180/#comment-42512 Wendy, it’s great to hear from you . . . and congrats on finishing up. I hope the job hunt is going well (or went well). Good luck. I appreciate hearing some confirmation about what I noted here. it’s unfortunate that change is so slow to materialize. hopefully you can be a catalyst in the school you end up in and we’ll keep fighting the good fight. thanks for the feedback. Wendy, it’s great to hear from you . . . and congrats on finishing up. I hope the job hunt is going well (or went well). Good luck.

I appreciate hearing some confirmation about what I noted here. it’s unfortunate that change is so slow to materialize. hopefully you can be a catalyst in the school you end up in and we’ll keep fighting the good fight. thanks for the feedback.

]]> By: Wendy Gergen http://atticmooses.com/blog/2008/04/30/180/comment-page-1/#comment-37974 Wendy Gergen Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:52:43 +0000 http://atticmooses.com/blog/2008/04/30/180/#comment-37974 Ah Sean. I stumbled back onto your blog after de-cluttering some of my bookmarks. This particular blog/rant really resonated. Once again I felt my little light bulb go off. So, I haven't been in your class for a few years, as I was one of the undergrads you mention. I finished my student teaching and graduated in April, and feel that many of the teachers I worked with when student teaching were VERY much like the woman at this conference. I student taught at a rather large suburban school district here, and was always surprised by the resistance I met with when trying to use technology when student teaching. Despite their pride at being a blue ribbon school and self proclaimed super awesome leaders of the universe, I was also very appalled at the state and condition of technology in the classrooms. My students had more technology available in their lockers than on the media labs. The greater impression though, was the student's reactions. I teach English and History. When students go to the media center, they assume they have a paper to write or some analysis or report to give. It took them a few weeks to warm up to the idea that they can learn the material other than just from books and powerpoint drone and zone sessions. So then the question remains, since these standards are out there, why are they so infrequently used? And why is it always the new teachers stirring up the technology stew? Ah Sean. I stumbled back onto your blog after de-cluttering some of my bookmarks. This particular blog/rant really resonated. Once again I felt my little light bulb go off. So, I haven’t been in your class for a few years, as I was one of the undergrads you mention. I finished my student teaching and graduated in April, and feel that many of the teachers I worked with when student teaching were VERY much like the woman at this conference. I student taught at a rather large suburban school district here, and was always surprised by the resistance I met with when trying to use technology when student teaching. Despite their pride at being a blue ribbon school and self proclaimed super awesome leaders of the universe, I was also very appalled at the state and condition of technology in the classrooms. My students had more technology available in their lockers than on the media labs. The greater impression though, was the student’s reactions. I teach English and History. When students go to the media center, they assume they have a paper to write or some analysis or report to give. It took them a few weeks to warm up to the idea that they can learn the material other than just from books and powerpoint drone and zone sessions. So then the question remains, since these standards are out there, why are they so infrequently used? And why is it always the new teachers stirring up the technology stew?

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