Comments on: Creating an Effective Connected Culture http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/02/26/creating-an-effective-connected-culture/ Thoughts on education and educational technology. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:50:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Comment Blogging « http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/02/26/creating-an-effective-connected-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-12826 Comment Blogging « Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:32:44 +0000 http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/02/26/creating-an-effective-connected-culture/#comment-12826 [...] ) Creating an Effective Connected Culture - a blog by Brett [...] [...] ) Creating an Effective Connected Culture – a blog by Brett [...]

]]> By: Angela Martinez http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/02/26/creating-an-effective-connected-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-12574 Angela Martinez Tue, 04 Mar 2008 04:39:35 +0000 http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/02/26/creating-an-effective-connected-culture/#comment-12574 I admire your efforts to instill such a trust in your students. It is especially important in this day in age to be able to communicate such useful lessons in our schools and allow for a student to learn from their mistakes as an adolescent rather than be treated like a child and threatened with punishment without first showing them some faith. I feel it is ridiculously unrealistic to assume that such an environment will be employed throughout the rest of their lives if they are not given the opportunity to grow as students and as human beings in general. By instilling such trust in them, they can then see that they can trust the instructor, who will then be able to better aid them in their learning and improve the teacher-student connections that are most meaningful and beneficial to both parties involved. Students feel independent and take better charge of themselves and their own work while still feeling comfortable coming to the instructor with whatever questions they may have or, perhaps, even some input into the curricula being employed in the classroom. I admire your efforts to instill such a trust in your students. It is especially important in this day in age to be able to communicate such useful lessons in our schools and allow for a student to learn from their mistakes as an adolescent rather than be treated like a child and threatened with punishment without first showing them some faith. I feel it is ridiculously unrealistic to assume that such an environment will be employed throughout the rest of their lives if they are not given the opportunity to grow as students and as human beings in general. By instilling such trust in them, they can then see that they can trust the instructor, who will then be able to better aid them in their learning and improve the teacher-student connections that are most meaningful and beneficial to both parties involved. Students feel independent and take better charge of themselves and their own work while still feeling comfortable coming to the instructor with whatever questions they may have or, perhaps, even some input into the curricula being employed in the classroom.

]]> By: Jay http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/02/26/creating-an-effective-connected-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-12423 Jay Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:24:29 +0000 http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/02/26/creating-an-effective-connected-culture/#comment-12423 I found you through iThink and I couldn't agree with you more. These restrictions hinder the learning process and there is no room for trust--even our teachers must deal with the same restrictions. Our computers are used primarily for Word Processor and Power Point, and occassionally for pulling sources from the web--though as you probably know through your expierecnce even a basic search can be a nightmare. If only our administrators and faculties could embrace the amazing opportunities that the web has to offer we could build a generation of capable, creative people that could accomplish more than the previous. Stubbornly, we try and restrict it for fear of how it will change or make things unstable. I found you through iThink and I couldn’t agree with you more. These restrictions hinder the learning process and there is no room for trust–even our teachers must deal with the same restrictions. Our computers are used primarily for Word Processor and Power Point, and occassionally for pulling sources from the web–though as you probably know through your expierecnce even a basic search can be a nightmare.

If only our administrators and faculties could embrace the amazing opportunities that the web has to offer we could build a generation of capable, creative people that could accomplish more than the previous. Stubbornly, we try and restrict it for fear of how it will change or make things unstable.

]]> By: Denise http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/02/26/creating-an-effective-connected-culture/comment-page-1/#comment-12374 Denise Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:52:18 +0000 http://blog.brettmoller.com/2008/02/26/creating-an-effective-connected-culture/#comment-12374 I read your post with some interest. I work in a public primary school in NZ. Our school has differentiated access to the internet which I was involved in setting up two years ago. At the time I was keen to ensure the 'safety' of our students on the internet and still believe that this is vitally important. I have to admit that my opinion and ideas are shifting radically as I learn more about the changing web environment and the valuable web 2.0 tools. Filtering frequently blocks things such as wiki, flickr, and blogs making these tools quite difficult to work with. I am certainly far from confident in my ability to utilise these tools to their full potential and am constantly learning how far behind, technologically speaking, I am. The need to free up these tools which pose risks and teach our children to become discerning and critical searchers of information, I believe, is being inhibited by the beauracratic and PC world that we as teachers are trying to keep happy. I wonder if all the filtering we are doing is actually having a negative impact on our childrens ability to be understand what makes something inappropriate because all of the adults are making these decisions for them. I read your post with some interest. I work in a public primary school in NZ. Our school has differentiated access to the internet which I was involved in setting up two years ago. At the time I was keen to ensure the ’safety’ of our students on the internet and still believe that this is vitally important.
I have to admit that my opinion and ideas are shifting radically as I learn more about the changing web environment and the valuable web 2.0 tools.
Filtering frequently blocks things such as wiki, flickr, and blogs making these tools quite difficult to work with.
I am certainly far from confident in my ability to utilise these tools to their full potential and am constantly learning how far behind, technologically speaking, I am.
The need to free up these tools which pose risks and teach our children to become discerning and critical searchers of information, I believe, is being inhibited by the beauracratic and PC world that we as teachers are trying to keep happy.
I wonder if all the filtering we are doing is actually having a negative impact on our childrens ability to be understand what makes something inappropriate because all of the adults are making these decisions for them.

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