This document discusses moving away from traditional textbooks in education and toward more digital, interactive learning models. It includes tweets and blog posts from students who feel they are learning better through hands-on projects and discussing content online rather than just reading from textbooks. Educators are questioning whether restricting content behind "walled gardens" is the best approach or if students should be instructed on how to safely learn from open online resources in a way that better prepares them for real-world skills.
6. Our students
cannot stuff us
into their backpacks.
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7. ...nor do we let them
graduate with their
textbooks.
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8. How are we preparing
students for a life after
high school?
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9. ...and who is the net
for anyway,
our students
or our teachers?
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10. *from Twitter:
@teachpaperless - textbooks should be seen as filters to
knowledge
@edwebb - students must acquire skills of hunting &
processing info in world saturated with it. Predigested info
in textbooks no prep
@ehelfant - outdated when they go 2press, stagnant/
predictable presentation- did u read your math/science
textbook for anything but problems?
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11. *from Twitter (cont.):
@ehelfant - math using maple/webassign 2make interactive
content w/instant feedback/real data-that vs pdf or text?
what exactly is debate?
@korby_trautman - u need 2 bring up how much u can
learn from a book when the author can join n (osha) &
bring up torins coral xperience
@ehelfant - AP US History gave up text-AP Chem tells
kids you can get any AP text if u want a reference to use
but you don't have 2 have one
@vbek - txtbks do not create learning environments
where students feel engaged and connected to each other,
the teacher, and the material
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30. Tori Scott
This is my class website! I’ve always loved science, but this year was a whole new experience
for me. In our class Mr. Nash gives us multiple ways too look at science. There are so many
new things to learn that it’s truly fun to experience it in different ways. I came into this class
thinking it was going to be him lecturing and us taking notes. This year was the first year for
me that it’s all been so hands on.
This class really makes us think. Mr. Nash will just give us something, for instances a visual, and
ask us to write about it. Like what we think it represents and our thoughts and opinions on it. I
really enjoy doing this. It allows us as students to share what were thinking. That’s one of my
favorite things about the website. Were able discuss and blog about the things we do in class.
We each get to share as individuals, which is pretty amazing because each one of us think
differently. This also allows us to learn on a completely different level.
I’d have to say that if there is one thing i’ve learned this year would be that science is not black
and white. Thats a big misconception i’ve had. Through the year though i’ve began to learn and
realize that there is always a gray area. The site gives us the opportunity to talk about it and
understand more.
Tori Scott :)
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31. Rachel Huntsman
I am a student in the dual-credit biology class that uses the blog you have been discussing. I just
wanted to let you know my thoughts on our use of the network.
I really think it is a beneficial way of learning, and would recommend it to any teacher in order
to get their students to actually think about learning.
I will admit I was one of the students who took the class just to get this major required science
class out of the way before college. However, this coming from a person who really doesn’t
enjoy science at all, I have found that I enjoy this class. I feel like I can analyze what I learn and
discuss things with other students rather than simply fill out a work sheet and answer test
questions.
I honestly think I will retain things from taking this class, and I can say I have benefited a great
deal from it.
I also like the idea that other people, such as yourselves, are actually reading this blog and
looking at what we are learning and how we are learning. It makes me think about what I will
post because I know someone from the other side of the world might read it.
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49. “...by using the ning site, while just thinking
my thoughts out loud into cyberspace, an
author heard and sent me a piece of
ancient history.”
~Torin McKinley
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50. Whose net are we
talking about here?
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51. BUILD A
“WALLED GARDEN”
FOR SAFETY
or
REMOVE BARRIERS
& INSTRUCT?
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52. “What if school wasn’t like real life...
what if it just was real life?”
~Chris Lehmann, SLA principal
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56. quot;This instrument can teach, it can
illuminate, yes, it can even inspire. But it
can do so only to the extent that humans
are determined to use it to those ends.
Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights
in a box.quot;
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57. quot;This instrument can teach, it can
illuminate, yes, it can even inspire. But it
can do so only to the extent that humans
are determined to use it to those ends.
Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights
in a box.quot;
~Edward R. Murrow, (about television)
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