Comments on: Slippery Reality http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/02/20/slippery-reality/ A teacher-to-go blogs about teaching, technology, and education in general Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:11:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Education Blog » Blog Archive » DABA: Candace Shively http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/02/20/slippery-reality/#comment-2402 Education Blog » Blog Archive » DABA: Candace Shively Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:11:36 +0000 http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/02/20/slippery-reality/#comment-2402 [...] Slippery Reality [...] […] Slippery Reality […]

]]> By: Adria Carter http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/02/20/slippery-reality/#comment-2299 Adria Carter Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:13:58 +0000 http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/02/20/slippery-reality/#comment-2299 Ms. Shively – I like your term “false sense of reality”. I have been a teacher all my life – my younger sister was born twenty-one months after me. From the time I knew how to talk, I was telling her how to do things and guiding her along. I always felt comfortable with a book in my hands and was ready to put my young self out there at even four to teach the Barbies in the playroom how to say their A, B, C’s. I will be forty in April. I am a proud forty -- I have accomplished a great deal and am currently working on a doctorate. I teach full time in a fun and innovative fourth grade classroom and the students still laugh at my jokes. I have teenage boys who don’t run from me -- I listen to popular music and I know who T.I. and Lil’ Wayne are. I have even been communicating with the people who couldn’t stand me in high school through the form of Facebook. (LOL) My concern is like yours and when it is all said and done who are we turning our brains over to? The reality is -- I am a teacher – and I will teach the students that are in my room with the same care and guidance that I gave to my little sister. Who, by the way, is also a teacher...smile Ms. Shively – I like your term “false sense of reality”. I have been a teacher all my life – my younger sister was born twenty-one months after me. From the time I knew how to talk, I was telling her how to do things and guiding her along. I always felt comfortable with a book in my hands and was ready to put my young self out there at even four to teach the Barbies in the playroom how to say their A, B, C’s.

I will be forty in April. I am a proud forty — I have accomplished a great deal and am currently working on a doctorate. I teach full time in a fun and innovative fourth grade classroom and the students still laugh at my jokes. I have teenage boys who don’t run from me — I listen to popular music and I know who T.I. and Lil’ Wayne are. I have even been communicating with the people who couldn’t stand me in high school through the form of Facebook. (LOL)

My concern is like yours and when it is all said and done who are we turning our brains over to? The reality is — I am a teacher – and I will teach the students that are in my room with the same care and guidance that I gave to my little sister. Who, by the way, is also a teacher…smile

]]> By: Louise Maine http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/02/20/slippery-reality/#comment-2257 Louise Maine Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:20:17 +0000 http://blog.teachersfirst.com/thinkteach/2009/02/20/slippery-reality/#comment-2257 And part of me cannot help but wonder if the current push for authentic education is the same as you describe. (I know it is not...I have people and resources to back it!) But, we tell people that they should know about x, because as critical thinkers, we asked and researched, etc. But what if not jumping on every new thing is better critical thinking (even though they did not research or trust, it may turn out not to be so bad a thing.) Your questions are interesting and I guess time will tell who is right and what should be trusted... And part of me cannot help but wonder if the current push for authentic education is the same as you describe. (I know it is not…I have people and resources to back it!) But, we tell people that they should know about x, because as critical thinkers, we asked and researched, etc. But what if not jumping on every new thing is better critical thinking (even though they did not research or trust, it may turn out not to be so bad a thing.) Your questions are interesting and I guess time will tell who is right and what should be trusted…

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