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Things I Don’t Believe My rant about technology in schools and how we should be treating the TEACHABLE MOMENTS!

Things I Don’t Believe

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Mild rant about the state if technology use in K-12 in America.

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Things I Don’t Believe

My rant about technology in schools and how we should be treating the

TEACHABLE MOMENTS!

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Things I Don’t Believe: #1

• That cell phones are evil. • That cell phones don’t belong in classrooms.• That we can’t find productive things to do

with devices that provide cheap and easy connections to the global community.

• That fining students for having a cell phone during the school day is a good way to handle a TEACHABLE MOMENT!

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Why I Don’t Believe It: #1

• Why wouldn’t we want students to have access to more computing power in their hands and pockets than we had on our desktops just a few short years ago.

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Things I Don’t Believe: #2

• That I’m a digital immigrant. • That a 10-yr old kid is a digital native can speak

digital better than I can.• That so many people buy the unproven premise

that you have to be born digital in order to “get it.”• That it is productive to split all technology users

into two camps pitted against one another, when learning about technology together should be a TEACHABLE MOMENT.

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Name this Device

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Why I Don’t Believe It: #2

• That’s a Commodore 64.• That was my first computer in 1984.• I’ve gone through all the iterations of upgrades

and improvements in the PC in the past 24 years. • You’re telling me that I’ll never speak the

language fluently because I wasn’t born into it?• Hah, I was there when personal computers were

born – not the other way around.

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Things I Don’t Believe: #3

• That all young people are criminals.• That sharing music is the same thing as

stealing.• That we as a country have allowed the RIAA

and MPAA to dictate how we will respond to the TEACHABLE MOMENT related to copyright infringement.

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Things I Don’t Believe: #4

• That all young people are cheaters.• That copy and paste should ruin a young

person’s academic career.• That Turnitin.com is a reasonable response to

the TEACHABLE MOMENT related to plagiarism in writing.

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Things I Don’t Believe: #5

• That students having laptops in class is a bad thing.

• That turning off the wifi is a good way to get students to pay attention to a lecture.

• That making students power down when they come to school is a good response to the TEACHABLE MOMENT related to responsible uses of technology.

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Things I Don’t Believe: #6

• That aggressive Internet content filtering is helpful to the learning process.

• That students need to be completely sheltered in school from things that they will encounter every day outside of the school building.

• That denying students access to 95% of the content on many websites (non-porn-related) is a good response to the TEACHABLE MOMENT related to responsible uses of the other 5%.

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Things I Don’t Believe: #7

• That Wikipedia is bad.• The errors in Wikipedia are more serious than

the errors in every one of the textbooks that are used in classrooms.

• That teaching students to totally disregard a resource such as Wikipedia is a good response to the TEACHABLE MOMENT related to determining accuracy of info on the Internet.

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Things I Don’t Believe: #8

• That my children are more at risk from online predators than they are from predators who live in our area.

• That scaring the heck out of our children is a good response to the TEACHABLE MOMENT related to remaining safe while using the Internet.

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Things I Don’t Believe: #9-14

9. That technology alone will get students to engage in learning.

10.That every teacher needs to be able to use technology better than the students.

11.That NCLB isn’t leaving many children behind.12.That schools are the problem.13.That teachers aren’t trying or don’t care.14.That all hope is lost.

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Things I Don’t Believe

What do you Believe?