Re: Forums etc.

Laurie Pattison Gordon ( lpg@bbn.com )
Sat, 27 Sep 1997 18:14:48 -0500

Miguel has pointed to an important issue about fostering reflective
conversation. People speak most thoughtfully about what matters most to
them. for teachers of course, student learning meets this criteria.
Additonally, as Miguel states the potential for rich discussion hindges on
a shared clear focus. THis relates to a component of Beverly's groups where
she partipates in forums with a defined purpose.

I also do think that the internet has great potential for both students and
teachers.

Miguel, could you say more about what you think it would take to transform
teacher forums to be a place of public reflection??? Do you think it must
start with small groups of teachers themselves or can it be fostered from
the outside by curriculum developers, professional development people etc.

Laurie

>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 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.
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> > 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) > > > >
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>We must transform teacher's forums in the place to build our own
>experience by means of a public reflexion.
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>
>Miguel Angel Perez
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>maperez@spin.com.mx
>mapa@servidor.unam.mx
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