[Solar-educacion] Discusiones en WWWEDU

Sab Jul 24 16:52:22 CEST 2004

Discusiones en WWWEDU

Parte de mi trabajo cada semana es realizar un
"digest" de mensajes aparecidos en WWWEDU y 
DIGITALDIVIDE.

Esta semana ha surgido un tema que creo es de su
interés, pero la discusión se alarga hasta alcanzar
los 100KB, así que aquí solamente pongo el inicio.

Los interesados de recibirla toda me avisan. ok?

El último comentario, el de Claude Almansi, me
parece interesante porque las "risk-managing skills"
de las que ella habla son algo que he visto que
los maestros que enseñan con Logo manejan bastante
bien, resulta que cuando se trabaja con Logo
los proyectos/programas *siempre* tienen fallas/bugs.
Es normal que las tengan. Es decir, siempre sh*t 
happens! Pero la postura de estos maestros es que
los bugs son pistas, oportunidades, etc. 

En la vida real, los chicos ya no van a tener al
maestro siempre al lado, ellos tendrán que ver 
cómo manejar los bugs que vayan cometiendo y con qué
actitud.

Daniel

Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:46:02 -0000
From: "mlalexfrancis" 
To: wwwedu en yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WWWEDU] Encouraging Techno-phobic Teachers

> How can we engage teachers in technology? Our local public 
> school has several state-of-the-art computer labs that sit 
> idle because teachers are afraid to take their class in 
> case something goes "wrong." As a computer instructor, I 
> have been a parent volunteer to assist my own child's 
> teacher in the lab, but I know other teachers still avoid 
> it.  Somehow there is money for hardware and software but 
> not for staff to help during classtime. How do we encourage 
> all teachers to jump in?
> 
> MaryLou A. Francis 

From: Nancy Willard 

> Provide them with 100% solutions -- lessons plans that 
> provide all the necessary information to successfully 
> implement and provide a mentor to assist.
> 
> One major problem in shifting from technology innovators to 
> the technophobic is that technology innovators are risk 
> takers who are comfortable in jumping into the unknown. The 
> rest of the world does not think like this. They are risk 
> managers or risk avoiders. The only way you will get them 
> to change is to offer a situation where they do not have to 
> deal with any risks.

From: "Claude Almansi" 

> Very true, but there is another factor explaining why 
> teachers are not risk teacher: the technology innovator 
> faced with a glitch in a research lab can go "LOL, sh*t 
> happens" and start over again. The teacher faced with a 
> glitch or something s/he doesn't understand or a student 
> leading him/her up the garden path, with 25+ restless kids 
> in the computer lab,  justifiedly fears that "sh*t not only 
> happens", but is likely to hit the fan in the next 5 
> minutes unless s/he finds a solution. This cramps his/her 
> style, making him/her all the more unable to find such a 
> solution. What they feer is not tech, but the ruckus a tech 
> glitch can cause.
> 
> So yes, starting so-called technophobic teachers with 
> risk-free material is a good idea. But what they need, soon 
> after that, is the risk-managing skills. 