Comments on: Using versus having http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/06/10/using-versus-having/ technology, libraries, and schools Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:49:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Building my Case « Chalkdust101 http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/06/10/using-versus-having/comment-page-1/#comment-1874 Building my Case « Chalkdust101 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:17:33 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/?p=708#comment-1874 [...] of accountability that they believe is a by-product of online learning and online life in general. Carolyn Foote writes today about what I interpret as “what happens after you bring the horse to water” phenomenon: [...] [...] of accountability that they believe is a by-product of online learning and online life in general. Carolyn Foote writes today about what I interpret as “what happens after you bring the horse to water” phenomenon: [...]

]]> By: Patrick http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/06/10/using-versus-having/comment-page-1/#comment-1873 Patrick Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:25:09 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/?p=708#comment-1873 Carolyn, A teacher in one of my workshops last year described her "learning later" as the "drive-home effect," as she would always have great discussions in her head about her graduate school classes. What was lacking, she claimed, was the ability to take those thoughts and act upon them in some kind of environment that would further them. For us, that environment is now this; for our students, what do we provide? What experiences do we offer for them to take advantage of that "drive-home effect?" Carolyn,

A teacher in one of my workshops last year described her “learning later” as the “drive-home effect,” as she would always have great discussions in her head about her graduate school classes. What was lacking, she claimed, was the ability to take those thoughts and act upon them in some kind of environment that would further them. For us, that environment is now this; for our students, what do we provide? What experiences do we offer for them to take advantage of that “drive-home effect?”

]]> By: Tim http://futura.edublogs.org/2008/06/10/using-versus-having/comment-page-1/#comment-1872 Tim Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:56:27 +0000 http://futura.edublogs.org/?p=708#comment-1872 I love the analogy of having to process the information we accumulate on the "back burner"! Far too often in American education we rush students through a topic without giving them that process time or helping them to use it constructively. I love the analogy of having to process the information we accumulate on the “back burner”! Far too often in American education we rush students through a topic without giving them that process time or helping them to use it constructively.

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