tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post4163548705115637911..comments2023-10-26T04:38:06.297-04:00Comments on TeachPaperless: Thoughts about EduConAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14091328599818819777noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-81147367871058948042010-02-02T18:23:55.626-05:002010-02-02T18:23:55.626-05:00Norman's comment strikes a chord with me. Can...Norman's comment strikes a chord with me. Can't tell you how many times this past weekend I thought, "Screw it, let's all just start over." From the ground up, not only re-think every aspect of school, but then actually do it. The will is clearly there; the rest is details, no? I often feel it's likelier I'll see Godot before I see significant, meaningful, sustained change in our current educational system.Damianhttp://www.apaceofchange.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-17714012732446788482010-02-02T09:28:17.345-05:002010-02-02T09:28:17.345-05:00If we really want to do this, why are we still wor...If we really want to do this, why are we still working in schools whose basic model is hierarchial and controlling and essentially antathema to collaboration, sharing, exploration and experimentation? Why don't we just quit and start doing these things other than a lack of backbone and the fear that we are wrong? Schools destroy us as we try to re-invent them.Norman Constantinehttp://paddy2.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-88700699158663988302010-02-01T16:41:19.925-05:002010-02-01T16:41:19.925-05:00I couldn't resist the temptation and even thou...I couldn't resist the temptation and even though I don't feel comfortable writing in English (improving my writing is still in my "to do list" in my process of learning English...), I wanted to tell you how important your words are when you say: "I want to meet more teachers, more thinkers, more folks who are willing to sit down for a bit and enter into a deeper experience of collaboration". I really think the future will be or must be built in these terms of collaboration.<br /><br />Thank you very much for all your articles in this blog. They are all inspiring in some way.<br /><br />(Somebody from Spain)Jaime Ginéshttp://www.destrezasdocentes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7029419017923677229.post-68770464970898307782010-02-01T10:51:01.435-05:002010-02-01T10:51:01.435-05:00Reflecting on one's own practice seems to be t...Reflecting on one's own practice seems to be the most important thing to come out of these sorts of conferences. As you may recognize, I went to NECC in DC this past summer expecting to have a lot more conversations. Instead, I spent a lot of time feeling like a deer in the headlights about to be struck by an oncoming truck — the oncoming truck of digital change.<br /><br />It's amazing to me that almost any and all moments of communication with other teachers, directly or indirectly, can help us reform and reinvigorate our practice. I wish we all took the time to sit down and have coffee together, have lunch together, have dinner together more often — especially the teachers in the same general knowledge areas but different schools, who are strangers to one another.<br /><br />Glad that philadelphia was such a positive eye-opener!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com