I am soooooo stuck it is ridiculous!!! SO I am really thinking about what I can do for my assignment 2 for this course - thinking about the course I teach and how I can realistically make transformative change. I am feeling queasy in the guts just thinking about it for several reasons:
You see my predicament. I am over a barrel as they say. I want to do as this Huffington Post blog states, "Teach kids to think, not memorise, but I am caught between giving them the skills to cope at uni and preparing them for an online future in education, that I don't truly believe is supported by institutions.
Also, how do you appropriately engage underage students in a networked and global manner that doesn't overstep the boundaries of what is appropriate for their age? So lost it is ridiculous...... I think I need to see what other people are doing in this space to answer my questions.
- I know we don't have to actually enact anything that we are considering in our assignment 2, but if I am going to research it and write about it, I want to try and do it;
- I feel that making any sort of change that has any impact is pushing the boundaries too far. In my context I am federally funded and rely on students to give the course I teach good course evaluations to inform future practices. I don't want students being so frustrated with the technology that they don't complete the course and then give bad course evals- which in turn means I don't get funded further - no job :(;
- The purpose of the course I teach is about preparing high school students for further study at uni. If I take a truly networked and global approach to this, rather than the stock standard approach that unis currently use, it defeats the purpose of the course - preparing them for uni;
- Do I then need to look at what I am teaching in the course, or rather how I teach it?
You see my predicament. I am over a barrel as they say. I want to do as this Huffington Post blog states, "Teach kids to think, not memorise, but I am caught between giving them the skills to cope at uni and preparing them for an online future in education, that I don't truly believe is supported by institutions.
Also, how do you appropriately engage underage students in a networked and global manner that doesn't overstep the boundaries of what is appropriate for their age? So lost it is ridiculous...... I think I need to see what other people are doing in this space to answer my questions.