is to invent it. Great title from an article I haven’t even read yet, but I definitely agree with the sentiment. And given the nostalgia that’s been generated today as I clean out old files, scan in old student papers to save electronically so I can throw away the paper, and get old handouts in digital format….well, paradoxically it’s causing me to think about the future.
And another article title in the Summer 2013 Independent School magazine is “Connected Learning Now: Embracing Our Students’ Desire for a Different Kind of Teaching.” But my students for the last few years, whenever I’ve asked, have not been particularly eager to “embrace…a different kind of teaching.”
This issue continues to vex me periodically. It’s similar to the whole “teacher should be a guide” idea, to which I fully subscribe, yet every year a number of students (in English, at least) say they take the class to hear what I think. As one put it this year, “I’m not really interested in the opinions of a bunch of other 18-year-olds on these questions. I signed up for this course to hear what *you* think.”
Is a puzzlement (as the King of Siam is reputed to have said…)