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A recurring theme in my writing is what might be called selfless teaching, that is, teaching with a focus on the student’s benefit in learning rather than what a teacher can gain from the student. Some of my readers find this obvious; of course the point of teaching is to benefit the student. Others [...] In his article It’s Not What We Teach; It’s What They Learn (Education Week, September 10, 2008) Alfie Kohn says: “Ideally, attention to learning signifies an effort to capture how each student makes sense of the world so we can meet them where they are. ‘Teaching,’ as Deborah Meier reminded us, ‘is mostly [...] I appreciate Mike Rose’s comment at Britanica’s new Brave New Classroom 2.0 Forum where he happens to summarize my views nicely: When discussing electronic technology in the classroom, it’s easy to fall into two traps: the ahistorical trap and the binary trap. We tend to think of electronic technology – as the forum [...] |
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