In Praise of Teachers – A Paean for Summer’s End
The street was crowded with tourists and locals, the warm end-of-summer evening a backdrop to the scene. People in shorts, eating ice-cream cones, brushed by them as Bill Robinson, his wife and his student teacher waited on the…
Do We Need Technology to Learn?
There is no doubt that a sea change of historic magnitude is occurring in education. As school districts all over the world are installing computers in classrooms, and replacing textbooks with iPads, more and more attention is being paid to the effect …
Teachers Learning from Students
Mary Dare Heathcote taught Human Growth and Development, three credits, at the college where I took my teacher training. She sat at a desk on an elevated platform in the front of the classroom, distanced from the rest of us by at least three yards, whi…
iPads and Teachers
“Do you think iPads are going to replace teachers?” he asked me in a telephone interview. “How do you see the iPad influencing what a teacher does in the classroom?” These are important questions for anyone who is concerned with the impact of information technolog…
To Err is Human
He sits across the table from me and I watch him work, with guarded eyes. His pencil is poised above the worksheet, his brow furrowed, unwilling to take the risk of a misspelled word, of an incorrect answer, of the penalty of getting it wrong. He sighs and finally ma…
