Comments on: Resistant, Clueless, Indifferent, or Just Defensive?

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抵制，无能，冷漠，抑或只是自卫？ | 益学会 > 教育中文翻译 — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:57:20 +0000

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By: Tracie

Tracie — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:26:08 +0000

Doug, even in ‘Down-Under’ (Australia) it is recognised that students know that they need to learn, it is the way they are instructed to learn that is no longer appropriate. If today’s skills require us to share knowledge using wiki-type group efforts, why isn’t this reflected in the schooling system? Are the teachers afraid of being left behind their students’ abilities?

By: Doug Noon

Doug Noon — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:40:00 +0000

Thanks, Liz

By: liz

liz — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:25:53 +0000

I love that you’re still working on that mission statement. You started it when I still worked there– over a year ago! I agree that this could been hammered out in no time flat in a wiki. Alas. But you could not have shared snacks with your coworkers that way. Are your diverse learning styles being supported?

By: Doug Noon

Doug Noon — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:07:13 +0000

I’m not sure who the “instructional designers” are, either. At the elementary level, which is my area, instructional design is mainly the job of the classroom teacher who has to work around more institutional obstacles than I care to describe. There are curriculum planners, too, but that level of design is pretty far removed from the reality of everyday classroom operations. As I think of it now, maybe the relationship between architect and contractor in the building trades would be a suitable analogy. Both have a job to do, but when it’s all done the builder has to make the design work, preserving as much of its conceptual integrity as possible.