http://blog.mrbassonline.com/2008/04/not-knowing-the-tools/ Musings on Technology and Education Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:40:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.mrbassonline.com/2008/04/not-knowing-the-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-33 penobscotriver Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:22:37 +0000 http://blog.mrbassonline.com/2008/04/09/not-knowing-the-tools/#comment-33 "...don't know the possibilities..and don't know what questions to ask." I've been working as a TI for a while now, and I still hear "We just don't know what's possible." after asking a satellite elementary school teachers to email a few days before my next visit what they're studying and what area(s) I should focus on at my next visit. The TC and I met with them to explain why I needed to know in advance; still, sometimes I don't hear. So what I do is to grab the bull by the horns, ask, "Do you study science?" if no communication has been received before my visit, and put the students on an interactive web page as they make circuits or control a virtual reactor. The students learn, the teachers are "wowed," but I still don't know what the teachers have learned. I'd like to work myself out of a job, but it isn't easy. Do teachers see us a "specials," as "pull outs" when they come to the lab or when the lab on wheels comes to them? I think most still do, and I'm not sure how to change that perception except one teacher at a time. -penobscotriver.edublogs.org “…don’t know the possibilities..and don’t know what questions to ask.” I’ve been working as a TI for a while now, and I still hear “We just don’t know what’s possible.” after asking a satellite elementary school teachers to email a few days before my next visit what they’re studying and what area(s) I should focus on at my next visit. The TC and I met with them to explain why I needed to know in advance; still, sometimes I don’t hear. So what I do is to grab the bull by the horns, ask, “Do you study science?” if no communication has been received before my visit, and put the students on an interactive web page as they make circuits or control a virtual reactor. The students learn, the teachers are “wowed,” but I still don’t know what the teachers have learned. I’d like to work myself out of a job, but it isn’t easy. Do teachers see us a “specials,” as “pull outs” when they come to the lab or when the lab on wheels comes to them? I think most still do, and I’m not sure how to change that perception except one teacher at a time.
-penobscotriver.edublogs.org

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