Dr. Boyer got a new iPad, and it got me thinking that I want an iPad. But that's irrelevant to my being an educator, so in other thinking, today we discussed Chapter 5 and the various pros and cons of:
-home schooling
-workplace learning
-distance education
-adult education
-learning centers
-educational television and videos
-computer-based learning software
-technical certifications.
It was fairly obvious that for almost every pro there's a con to these alternative types of learning. We did a lot of listening to opinions and not very much time building on and off of these ideas. As an educator, I think it's important to instigate deeper thinking, I guess I'm more of a processor and internal thinker academically, but my new thinking is that I/we need to become verbal processors and thinkers so that we can teach our students how to probe into the depths of their minds and really learn.
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