The New IdeaList is my first blog. It has been created as part of a class assignment, but I hope to see it eventually grow into something useful beyond the boundaries of any specific class. I chose the name The New IdeaList not to be clever (though it did make me smile when it occurred to me), but because I would truly like to see this blog become two things simultaneously: a place where we can not only question, refine, and celebrate the nature of being idealists, but also a place to examine the endless lists of ideas that stack up around us on a daily basis. In the future, I hope to go beyond posting overtly personal entries, and strive to use this blog as a confluence of thinkers (teachers and students alike, all educating one another), and for a myriad of intellectual, ethical, and --ultimately -- insightful discussions. I am excited to see how this will take shape, and -- ideally -- be shaped by others.
In my first comprehensive post, I plan to examine the nature of using blogs as a tool to not only share information with students, but as a means of sharing strategies in professional development among educators. Stay tuned, and please -- chime in!
4 comments:
You my friend, are a very creative individual! I'm interested to watch your blog grow!!
You have hit on the idea that most folks are missing... using Blogs for YOUR learning. Everyone seems to focus on how to help students. I think they can help TEACHERS learn.
{I've been keeping that idea under wraps until it came up.}
Great job!
~ John
Joel upgraded! He's now Joel 2.0!
I actually have all sorts of ideas regarding the proper role of computers in education, if you'd care to hear them. In a nutshell: Computer use before high school is RIGHT OUT, and even in high school, I'm a little iffy.
Although, Steven Talbot expresses many of the same ideas much more coherently: http://www.netfuture.org
This link is more exact, and lists all of his articles regarding education and computers:
http://www.netfuture.org/inx_topical_all.html#Education_and_computers
Hope that stirs something or other in the wizzit...
-Paul
Wicked start. Great pic!
Paul --
thanks so much, dear friend. The articles you passed my way were invaluable, as you can see by my most recent post. I haven't even cracked the surface of what Netfuture has to offer! Please feel free to share your thought on computers/technology in the classroom more thoroughly, and I'll certainly do my best to incorporate and respond to them here!
In the meantime, keep up the good work on cataloging (and saving) the universe:)
-joel
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