Today the course work was staggering, covering a wide range of different resource guides and websites for educators. Coverage has a way of draining the mind, destroying curiosity and depth in the name of length and breadth. We scratched the surface on a few useful tools, Thinkfinity being the most effective of the bunch, yet most remain a mystery. The magical world of the interweb is compounding information so rapidly it becomes overwhelming. Buckminster Fuller might have a word or two to say about this "frontier acceleration" that humbles even the wisest of scholars, challenging every written word with a thousand new words and just as many new ideas. Is too much information a bad thing? Overcoming the nihilism in education, that dreadful fear of unknowing in a world so rife with information, is the first step towards deeper study.
It will take a good while to digest the onslaught of new technologies and programs on display today, not to mention the slew of new inventions awaiting the next hour. How can we keep afloat in a world when knowledge is changed and created in this very second of suddenness? The logistics are staggering, and I have little time to figure it out before the next idea passes by.
However, I must say Thinkfinity seems like a great resource for fledgling teachers to pull lesson plans and activities from. Your thoughts or Thinkfinity or any of the rambling above?
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Jungle Boogie is always a fun jingle but where would you want to use it- as the beginning and end of the interview?????
ReplyDeleteGreat thoughts and word usage in your last blog. I liked the word fledgling the most. All of what we learned yesterday was very overwhelming. The amount of information to be attained is ENORMOUS. How do you eat an elephant? With ketchup and mustard - thats how.
I am a little thrown off by Marc's comment before mine. Ummm....Thinkfinity is great but things to change quickly so how can we keep up? Taking this class alone makes me feel so out of touch with computers, and it's odd since they were introduced to the home when I was really young.
ReplyDeleteI think the problem was with class is that we had too many disciplines to cover. Had the lesson been more targeted to individual disciplines, we would learn far more (provided we were of that discipline at least)
ReplyDeleteI agree with trying to cover all of the disciplines. You just get a little taste and I noticed that when people were given time to search they often went back to the content area they were interested in. You need to figure out some way to makes notes of the things you want to go back to look at later, maybe well after the class is over. Some people will do that electronically and others will have a different method.
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