felt that if you're a good teacher, your work generally will fit into
standards such as ISTE's. I see the ISTE standards as guidelines, but
shouldn't be driving every curricular decision.
Also, the beauty of many independent schools is that teachers are respected
enough to be given the autonomy to make these decisions. This mindset is not
prevalent necessarily in public schools; I fear that many are moving away
from this given today's climate in education. I know from personal
experience that I thrived professionally when given the room to what I
thought was best for students. And, as Curt mentions, this doesn't mean that
accountability in the form of coherent rationales aren't important.
Great discussion, everyone. Even though I no longer work exclusively in the
independent school world, I always appreciate the insight from educators on
this listserv.
Thanks,
Lucy Gray
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Curt Lieneck <clienec@ucls.uchicago.edu>wrote:
> Interesting discussion of standards for using technology.
>
> I side with Joel in this debate. There are only a few things I ask of
> teachers to help make technology work well for them and their students:
>
> 1) Look at your use of technology from the students' standpoint as much as
> your own.
>
> 2) Understand that using technology well means investing time that can be
> hard to come by.
>
> 3) Understand that there are practical limits to my ability to support
> your individual preferences. I have to work with absolutely everyone in
> the school, and so will see your requests in a much different context than
> you will. But if you give me a sound educational reason for doing so, I
> will support as broad a set of tools as my staff and I can reasonably
> manage.
>
> 4) Choices you make about using or not using technology in your teaching
> should be informed choices accompanied by a cogent rationale, just as you
> would do for other curricular decisions you make. I will ask about that
> rationale when you ask me for funding, and I will ask for that rationale
> when you don't.
>
> If the school were to start compelling curricular technology use, the
> conversation would shift away from students, where it always needs to be,
> and devolve into an argument about which adults know more about what
> students need. Students always lose when adults square off on such things.
>
> Curt Lieneck
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> University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
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