On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 brian_drayton@TERC.EDU wrote:
> What we began to realize was that the network had to be part of
a suite of tools for professionaly development, and that depending on the
other tools a teacher habitially used, the network would take on
correspondingly different values and uses for them.
If we share focus about how contribute to the student develop of
scientific skills (like the "enviroment" or the challenges) or about the
way to contribute to the student construction of scientific concepts and
categories, We have a core of ideas to discuss and our discusion is rich
because we share an horizon.
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>I happen to think that the best use of networks in education is for
teachers, not students, but I think the network has to be well situated in
a context of discussion and reflection on practice in other media, and as
a regular part of the teachers' work habits.
I am not agree. Students can find an opportunity to share teenager view
of life with pairs and discover that to investigate and to share their
own knowledge could be cool is a plus in the student life. Many mexican
students can feel how they can stablish respectful dialogue with other
students about enviromental issues or Physics or some other subject. When
I see a mexican teenager sharing data about t. ozone with pairs in Los
Angeles o Santiago de Chile I know that this student is begin to actual
globally uderstanding their own neiborhood. I learn a lot when I send a
Christmas congartulation to people to countries with other cultures. When
I am participating with my horrible english in this forum about forums I
am contrasting not only my ideas but my way to see teaching in other
perpective (not only personal way but national, regional and ethnical).
Our students has a lot of things to share in forums from a hello message
to a table with data and the name of a global idol.
> I think this complexity of the relation of practice to principles
(What the teacher would like to do vs what they actually enact) may be at
the heart of the difference between philatelic listserves and teacher
listservs, where the focus is on pedagogy rather than the eschange of
resources (for example) > > > >
We must transform teacher's forums in the place to build our own
experience by means of a public reflexion.
Miguel Angel Perez
maperez@spin.com.mx
mapa@servidor.unam.mx
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