{"id":23085,"date":"2011-09-09T17:21:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T21:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=23085"},"modified":"2011-09-09T17:23:26","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T21:23:26","slug":"i-need-to-rant-at-the-end-of-this-loooonnngggg-weeeek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/09\/09\/i-need-to-rant-at-the-end-of-this-loooonnngggg-weeeek\/","title":{"rendered":"I need to rant at the end of this loooonnngggg weeeek."},"content":{"rendered":"

Two rants from DSC:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

RANT #1:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

When someone questions the value of investing in educational technology<\/strong> — especially those technologies that give a student access to the Internet — they’re often inferring that, “Other people don’t know anything of value.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It should go without saying from here on out that if I can gain access to the Internet through a variety of educational technologies, I’ve just opened up a world of knowledge<\/em> — tapping into expertise from all over the globe regarding any discipline imaginable! Whether that be at school, church, home, work, etc. — doesn’t matter…value is there…instantly.
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Don’t tell me that isn’t valuable!\u00a0 Stop saying that we’re not getting value from investing in such educational technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n

RANT #2:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I dropped my daughter off early at school today so that she could help feed the animals in a classroom located at the back of the school (where the teacher had authorized access to such students). Another teacher told her to go to the front of the building…ok…<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, as I’m driving her to the front of the building, I ask her, “How are things going in getting to the bus in time?” She had 4 minutes to make the trek the other day from the end of the school, carrying a backpack that weighs in at about 25-30 pounds!\u00a0 She told me that she can not take her backpack to her last class in order to make the mad dash to the bus. Security precautions perhaps? <\/span><\/p>\n

All these rules. All these “don’t do this”, “don’t do that!” “Sit down.” “Stand over there – now.” “Be quiet.”
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Then we wonder why they don’t own their own learning. *&*$$%\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then we wonder why they don’t love learning.\u00a0 Double *&*$$%<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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