Dec 30 2006
This sums it up…
I have been wondering for a long time now about how out of date our schools are becoming - this is only confounded by times in my classroom when this question (or statement) has come sharply into focus, like here.
So I recently read something from Willard Daggett that John Pederson quoted
“Are your schools more like the 1970’s than unlike 1970’s?”
This makes a lot of sense.
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I have to say my school is sadly more like the 70s. Our district has tried to mask this with Promethean boards and projectors in the classes and yes, even in the library, but the teachers are still teaching the way they were taught in the 70s, and their promethean boards have simply become their electronic chalkboard or new overhead projectors.
Each year I ask for more desktops (preference on laptops) for the library. But it is nixed annually because it is not in the tech plan, which I am a committee member for…BUMMER. One voice is not enough.
I think there are MANY schools just like mine–on the surface they are trying to look 2st Century, but reality is same ol’ same 1970s style of teaching and learning–oh and let’s not leave out testing.
The Widening Gap…
I think this illustrates what is happening in our schools today and is something we need to keep in mind as we continue on our journey on this Ministry of Education contract.
I have been wondering for a long time now about how out of date our schools a…