Comments on: Discovery

By: stacie

stacie — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:58:22 +0000

Amazing how our “ah-ha” moments in teaching have changed! No doubt, the child you mentioned will use that skill for the rest of his life. What a moment.

By: jonhoff

jonhoff — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:53:28 +0000

It is the little things that get you the most! I wouldn’t underate the effectivness of students knowing their shortcuts either. It empowers them as computer users.

By: Meg

Meg — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:14:13 +0000

There are so many things in the tech world teachers do have to show students (rather than only the other way around). I had similar moments last week when my students were amazed, searching Google news, that the web showed articles written as recently as ONE MINUTE ago! How do they do that? they asked. I demonstrated how I update my blog, and the instantaneous posting to the web and they were wow’d. It is exactly like myspace, etc, but they still hadn’t made the connection.

By: Discovery

Discovery — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:27:57 +0000

[...] Random Feed wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptLast week as I was helping a child in my class with some data entry using the excellent Create-a-Graph, I watched as a child sitting next to them learned something new. I was simply using the TAB keyboard short-cut to move between fields when adding some data. I could see that the boy next to me had looked up from the work on his own laptop. I continued supporting this child and I again noticed their neighbour peering around my arm trying to spot which key I was using to move between fields. He [...]