Desperate SBTS

I was interested in the coordination of Web2.0 tools that November proposes. So far, I have only encountered these tools as they have been discussed in isolation. I attended a K12 conference in blogging. I’ve listened to explanations of how podcasting works. But I have not heard anyone explain how thewe tools could work together. It helps me to understand their power to think of them as a package, rather than seperate applications.
I also appreciated how he put them into the context of the global community and the necessity for developing students who are comfortable in the multi-cultural global economy that is developing.
I was interested in his comments that teachers need not be trained in these tools if students have the training. One of the conferences in K12 was based on this same idea. Teachers should not be afraid to experiment with Web2.0 tools because 1) the students will help the teacher, and may even be better at figuring out how to use them and 2) learning how use these would be a great problem solving opportunity of the kind November speaks of.
Finally, I took the Teaching with Geometer’s Sketchpad online course this summer and one of the comments from math teachers learning this software is that they didn’t see their students exercising the patience to figure out how to construct their own shapes or work through some of the constructing challenges. This analysis of student motivation agrees with November’s observation that American students are not taught or challenged to develop problem solving skills.

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