Comments on: A Tale of Two Guest Houses (or, what are you offering your students this academic year?) http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/08/26/a-tale-of-two-guest-houses-or-what-are-you-offering-your-students-this-academic-year/ Education. Technology. Productivity. Fri, 25 May 2012 09:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Anonymous http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/08/26/a-tale-of-two-guest-houses-or-what-are-you-offering-your-students-this-academic-year/comment-page-1/#comment-5982 Anonymous Thu, 27 Aug 2009 23:03:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=2910#comment-5982 Doug - I love the two photos and I think you've hit the nail on the head. It's been a while since I've been in touch since your excellent 'guest appearance' at our Innovation and Change Day and I'm now an AHT with an e-Learning portfolio and on my first day at my new school have been asked to present something of my vision which is similar to the one you espouse. It's a school full of teachers who've been there 20+ years and certainly haven't embraced any new technology but I don't want to come in and dismiss all that they do so it is certainly posing problems for me as a I speak. I thank you for providing some stimulus to my planning as always. Doug – I love the two photos and I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. It’s been a while since I’ve been in touch since your excellent ‘guest appearance’ at our Innovation and Change Day and I’m now an AHT with an e-Learning portfolio and on my first day at my new school have been asked to present something of my vision which is similar to the one you espouse.

It’s a school full of teachers who’ve been there 20+ years and certainly haven’t embraced any new technology but I don’t want to come in and dismiss all that they do so it is certainly posing problems for me as a I speak. I thank you for providing some stimulus to my planning as always.

]]> By: Cabinnyc http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/08/26/a-tale-of-two-guest-houses-or-what-are-you-offering-your-students-this-academic-year/comment-page-1/#comment-5981 Cabinnyc Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:27:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=2910#comment-5981 NIce visual metaphor....I try to keep a healthy skepticism when it comes to new tools...as I don't think all our "legacy practices" are without merit..and that the newest technology is the "silver bullet" that we've been looking for....it's so easy to drop our knickers for each new piece of fruit that pours off the internet..but that's not what we're being paid to do. Thanks for the post! NIce visual metaphor….I try to keep a healthy skepticism when it comes to new tools…as I don’t think all our “legacy practices” are without merit..and that the newest technology is the “silver bullet” that we’ve been looking for….it’s so easy to drop our knickers for each new piece of fruit that pours off the internet..but that’s not what we’re being paid to do.
Thanks for the post!

]]> By: Kerry Turner http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/08/26/a-tale-of-two-guest-houses-or-what-are-you-offering-your-students-this-academic-year/comment-page-1/#comment-5980 Kerry Turner Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:17:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=2910#comment-5980 I'll be teaching the technology to meet the needs of my students. There'll be no 'Whistles and Bells' just a sureness that repeating what's been taught many times before is not necessarily educating anyone. I teach ICT and have just seen an article where a 9 year old boy, who'll potentially be coming to my school in some academic year, won a national prize in a schools computer animation competition, using Alice software. There'll be little use for a class full of such students, who could, in many parts of the UK, be facing the epitome of your latter hotel sign, something fairly worn, dated and woefully unattractive. I’ll be teaching the technology to meet the needs of my students. There’ll be no ‘Whistles and Bells’ just a sureness that repeating what’s been taught many times before is not necessarily educating anyone. I teach ICT and have just seen an article where a 9 year old boy, who’ll potentially be coming to my school in some academic year, won a national prize in a schools computer animation competition, using Alice software.

There’ll be little use for a class full of such students, who could, in many parts of the UK, be facing the epitome of your latter hotel sign, something fairly worn, dated and woefully unattractive.

]]> By: littlespy http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/2009/08/26/a-tale-of-two-guest-houses-or-what-are-you-offering-your-students-this-academic-year/comment-page-1/#comment-5979 littlespy Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:59:00 +0000 http://dougbelshaw.com/blog/?p=2910#comment-5979 I think there has to be a happy medium. Personality but a blind refusal to recognise the changes around is worrying and blinkered but then I find grabbing the technology and then trying to find a use, rather than using the technology because it presents the best way to deliver that particular element of learning or develop skills equally troublesome. Here's to the middle ground! I think there has to be a happy medium. Personality but a blind refusal to recognise the changes around is worrying and blinkered but then I find grabbing the technology and then trying to find a use, rather than using the technology because it presents the best way to deliver that particular element of learning or develop skills equally troublesome.

Here’s to the middle ground!

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