Monday, March 17, 2008

BS keynote Part 2

After the video break:
Student use of technology: they use technologies that form a normative means for communicating, collaborating, and playing with peers. Create informal learning spaces.
Do we need to be there with them? Should SPanish 101 be in Facebook, just because my students are there? What tools and communicative strategies are used there? Can we ask our students what they want?
Video from michael wesch @ kansas state on conflict between what students are doing and what we're asking of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
Bell Hooks quote on letting go of old ideas. Fear is good with doubt and questioning, but not when it paralyzes.
Teaching is one of the last professions where we can close the door! How can we start to open the door?
Blogs wiki's etc.
Oops. Gus will facilitate questions--got to go

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