http://powazek.com/posts/787 It's pronounced poe-WAH-zek. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:26:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://powazek.com/posts/787/comment-page-1#comment-1664 A. Mercer Sun, 25 Nov 2007 07:21:03 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/787#comment-1664 Hey, James Farmer's post on "If It Bleeds, It Leads" on incsub.org led me here, and I must say, I'm impressed with this post. I teach computers and technology in an elementary school. I like your analysis of the situation between schools and new technologies. My take though is that many students are not discerning consumers of information (anywhere, not just on the Internet). But, rather than saying, "Hey, let's not let them use Wikipedia," I, and others like myself, are trying to push the idea that maybe we need to teach students how to use it effectively and properly (along with a whole host of other sources, including paper ones). In elementary, I do tend to pre-vet links and sources for students, mostly to save time, but I also start to introduce them to evaluating sources, discerning fact and opinion, and evaluate whether a web resource there to be a resource, or to sell you stuff. Hey, James Farmer’s post on “If It Bleeds, It Leads” on incsub.org led me here, and I must say, I’m impressed with this post. I teach computers and technology in an elementary school. I like your analysis of the situation between schools and new technologies. My take though is that many students are not discerning consumers of information (anywhere, not just on the Internet). But, rather than saying, “Hey, let’s not let them use Wikipedia,” I, and others like myself, are trying to push the idea that maybe we need to teach students how to use it effectively and properly (along with a whole host of other sources, including paper ones). In elementary, I do tend to pre-vet links and sources for students, mostly to save time, but I also start to introduce them to evaluating sources, discerning fact and opinion, and evaluate whether a web resource there to be a resource, or to sell you stuff.

]]> http://powazek.com/posts/787/comment-page-1#comment-1595 Donna B. Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:13:42 +0000 http://powazek.com/posts/787#comment-1595 Thanks, Derek. That was like the annotations to the notes I blogged for the students and alumni on our online community during your talk. I felt my clarity and sense of purpose reviving with every paragraph. Yes, yes, yes. Thanks, Derek. That was like the annotations to the notes I blogged for the students and alumni on our online community during your talk. I felt my clarity and sense of purpose reviving with every paragraph. Yes, yes, yes.

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