Comments on: Emotional truancy http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/ Education. Technology. Productivity. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pinayseotesthttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/comment-page-1/#comment-318 pinayseotest Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:45:12 +0000 http://www.dougbelshaw.com/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/#comment-318 Jeg ser det hele tiden, det er en form for disassociation. Den »virkelige mig" for dem er ikke den person, de er i skolen: det er kun det sted, hvor de hoppe gennem bøjlerne. Jeg ser det hele tiden, det er en form for disassociation. Den »virkelige mig” for dem er ikke den person, de er i skolen: det er kun det sted, hvor de hoppe gennem bøjlerne.

]]> By: Doug Belshawhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/comment-page-1/#comment-317 Doug Belshaw Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:40:15 +0000 http://www.dougbelshaw.com/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/#comment-317 Lisa Stevens has kindly scanned the article from the TES as it doesn't seem to be on the website. Click <a href="http://www.dougbelshaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/tes-article.jpg" rel="nofollow">here</a> for the full-size readable version! :-D Lisa Stevens has kindly scanned the article from the TES as it doesn’t seem to be on the website. Click here for the full-size readable version! :-D

]]> By: Doug Belshawhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Doug Belshaw Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:00:45 +0000 http://www.dougbelshaw.com/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/#comment-316 Thanks for your comments. :-) <strong>@Ian & Robert:</strong> Having written my MA thesis on late 19th-century schooling I would be a fool to say anything other than it has ever been thus! However, what I do think technology does is <em>bring into focus</em> the shortcomings of the system, especially in an age dominated by it... <strong>@José:</strong> It was great to meet you at TeachMeet08. We do need to harness the technologies available to us instead of banning them. It feels like spitting in the wind sometimes though. :p Thanks for your comments. :-)

@Ian & Robert: Having written my MA thesis on late 19th-century schooling I would be a fool to say anything other than it has ever been thus! However, what I do think technology does is bring into focus the shortcomings of the system, especially in an age dominated by it…

@José: It was great to meet you at TeachMeet08. We do need to harness the technologies available to us instead of banning them. It feels like spitting in the wind sometimes though. :p

]]> By: José Picardohttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/comment-page-1/#comment-315 José Picardo Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:57:05 +0000 http://www.dougbelshaw.com/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/#comment-315 "I hate to say it, but if you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem…" I wish I were brave enough to say that to a few people in my school. Our pupils have grown up in an environment that is fundamentally different to the one I experienced while groing up (I'm in my early thirties). They have multiple TV channels, personal computers, portable computers, media players and broadband with access to a whole host of services and entertainment (and education if we make it so). Not using this to our advantage is madness. “I hate to say it, but if you’re not part of the solution you’re part of the problem…”

I wish I were brave enough to say that to a few people in my school.

Our pupils have grown up in an environment that is fundamentally different to the one I experienced while groing up (I’m in my early thirties). They have multiple TV channels, personal computers, portable computers, media players and broadband with access to a whole host of services and entertainment (and education if we make it so). Not using this to our advantage is madness.

]]> By: Robert Joneshttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/comment-page-1/#comment-314 Robert Jones Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:13:15 +0000 http://www.dougbelshaw.com/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/#comment-314 Unless my school experience was radically different from the norm, it has ever been thus! When was school ever really relevant to real life? I think we devalue genuine arguments against the institution of schools when we try to present them as somehow being new and related to technology. Unless my school experience was radically different from the norm, it has ever been thus! When was school ever really relevant to real life? I think we devalue genuine arguments against the institution of schools when we try to present them as somehow being new and related to technology.

]]> By: Ian Grove-Stephensenhttp://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/comment-page-1/#comment-313 Ian Grove-Stephensen Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:02:40 +0000 http://www.dougbelshaw.com/2008/01/15/emotional-truancy/#comment-313 To what extent is this an issue of technology? I was an emotional (and later physical) truant in the 1970s because I felt no ownership of the hoops the school held up for me to jump through. I would make the right noises (or marks on paper) to keep the grown-ups off my back, and spent the rest of my time in the far-richer world inside my head. A habit I've not lost, btw. To what extent is this an issue of technology? I was an emotional (and later physical) truant in the 1970s because I felt no ownership of the hoops the school held up for me to jump through. I would make the right noises (or marks on paper) to keep the grown-ups off my back, and spent the rest of my time in the far-richer world inside my head. A habit I’ve not lost, btw.

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