1st slide - Wally, I enrolled you a program to cure uselessness.
2nd slide - Your classmates will be a glass hammer and a bag of nothing.
3rd slide - Can I borrow a pen? Dude no arms. (He is asking the bag of nothing)
The reason that I picked this cartoon that was in today's paper is because I felt that it went along with the chapter that we for tonight's assignment. Chapter One "What Skills Will Students Need for the 21st Century?"
While reading this article I kept thinking that maybe we need to be focusing on work ethic skills first then technology. Rather than looking at what needs to happen when acquiring school skills I feel that we need to find a way to teach work ethics with school skills along with technology. Many of our students do not have the work ethics to survive in the work world. Maybe we give our students too many chances to get that passing grade. How many chances will these students get at their job to mess up! Yes, we want our students to be successful, but let’s have them really work for it. When looking at most of the special education students in our district, they have been spoon fed too long. When they come into the resource room they want the answers given to them. I need to give them the tools that will help them search for those answers and find them on their own. What are they learning when things are given to them. I don’t want to go on and on about this but this is the first step that needs to be taken. As a teacher I know that I need to be stronger too. Make these kids work for their answers. Yes, we will have many failures along the way but if we step up we will have students that start stepping up.
In the first section of the reading when a highly qualified person was given the responsibility to find a computer for the cartographic company and ended up loosing her job was a real eye-opener. Here we have a very good student who hasn’t obtained the problem-solving skills needed for her to survive in this position. Even our best students who we think will survive just fine are struggling in the work force.
4 comments:
Pretty cool putting a comic in your blog. I will have to find out how you did that.
Pretty cool putting a comic in your blog. I will have to find out how you did that.
Good feedback on the chapter. I agree.
Love the comic, Becky! When I clicked on it, it enlarged so I could see the whole thing.
Great comments, observations, and in general blog-posts. I, too, am struggling with an idea for a project for you. You are such a support role for students instead of traditional teacher. Maybe you can support their tech uses and try to teach some of those organizational skills (on the laptop) that we know everyone is lacking in? I know it's not quite collaborative, but very beneficial? Still thinking...
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