John raised the question: "But I have a question. And this is addressed not just to you, but to everyone. Why is it that educators -- the people whose job it is to teach students about new technology and concepts -- do not want to learn the technology themselves? I am not taking a position on use, or ease of use, of technology, I am just curious why this attitude exists. Thoughts? Cheers, John"
The old saying went: Them that can, do Them that can't, teach and them that can't teach, teach teachers I have been an educator al my life. In the widest sense of the word. When I turned forty, my magical ability to learn languages disappeared I have been steadily dropping in my learning abilities since I was three In the eighties my fellow social scientists thought I was some sort of a nerd (not a nice term then) because I was the only one of them with an apple two clone and modem and able to use the university computer from my home for grading, composing and so on. Now I find it hard to keep up with all these educators using wikis and other web .0 technology So I am now in my mid sixties, retired and disabled. Age might have something to do with it. Perhaps I should put this together into another rant. . . . . :-) Cheers, Phil If the coach does the pushups, The athlete will not get stronger Community Empowerment: www.scn.org/cmp/ WikiEducator http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Philbartle Join our discusssion forum http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Community_Strengthening --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
