Author: abendelow
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The "Buffalo" teacher, in the middle of the field
with time to self reflect. What will he decide? [this is the second part of my 13 December post reflecting on my course in “Ethics and Foundations in American Education.” I use the north American bison (depicted), also known as the “buffalo,” as a totem animal because of its strength, stolidity, and precariousness, qualities I…
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Have we seen the emerging "teacher-killer" app?
in Microsoft’s “Project Natal“? Yesterday, I suggested to my students (and Facebook friends) that just as the first phonographs suggested the end of the dance-hall band, the first ATM machines betokened the end of bank buildings, the first “self-service” gas stations suggested the end of the “service station attendant” career, and the first telephones the…
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It's wonderful when students teach fellow students
It is perhaps the best way for learning to happen–among peers, un-mediated by extraneous influences. I’m feeling proud of my juniors tonight and want to kvel. On our wiki-land.wikispaces class site, a peer dialog around a classmate’s writing happened. He had written a letter pointing out problems he saw in Barack Obama’s administration and in…
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Video Games = Learning Games
and the world, including cognitive scientists, is starting to see that as clearly as a wii game detail on a hi-resolution digital monitor. As I noted a few posts ago, an eschoolnews article this month discusses not only how increasingly ubiquitous and “open access” games are becoming (they’re playing wii in Senior Citizen centers), but…
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Introduction to reflection and action plan paper
“Shaken to my ethical foundations”: a reflection on my educational practice and a challenge to improve my ethical action (praxis) Andrew BendelowEthics and Foundations of American Education (Hybrid) EDU 646011 December 2009Professor Jason LukasikConcordia University of Chicago Through the quantity, but mainly by the quality of its readings and activities, EDU 6460 Ethics and Foundations…
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Diversity at the mall–Circle of Friends Holiday Shop 09
http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf
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"If the folks at MIT see the merit of video games, well then…"
Exciting new eschoolnews link overviews a component of the new schooling I’m contemplating: autonomously engaged-in learning through video games. How cool to be around as a new mode of teaching and learning is being developed! Intelligent design is something the game makers are coming at through trial and error. The eschoolnews piece highlights the list…
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Rethinking Autism
This amazing video made and narrated by an autistic person (silentmiauw) troubles the special educationist mind. It challenges all that we think we know of autism, and thus what a free and fair democracy owes its autistic citizens in the way of schooling. The accepted definition of autism is (from wikipedia): ” a disorder of…
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Well, if Robert Marzano likes it, it must be good
Celebrity educationalist Marzano‘s talking up the interactive whiteboard, something I’m ignorant of, but something that looks pretty Disney, pretty cool.Mr. Hopper in the video demonstrates its use in the classroom, and one can tell he’d be somewhat engaging as your whiteboard equipped teacher, what with his effervescent video style and all. In his clear-headed post,…
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That American mix of idealism and greed
is alive and well in the current FCC policies. Ceclia Kang writes this piece in yesterday’s Washington Post tech blog that illuminates the hybrid capitalist + progressive agenda of the current administration. While acknowledging the necessity of ubiquitous connectivity to student success in schools (which might be called “progressive“), the National Cable and Telecommunications Association…
The Wikiness 