Week 6, response to readings

I vacillate between the desire to grow with technology and the feeling that I should hang on to tradition. I want to keep up with technology and prepare my students, but I still believe that 'top down' education is necessary. It is what gives students the basis from which to create, produce, extend etc. I like the analogy that one of the authors used about the lecture hall and the hallway. The real learning happens when the students can discuss the concepts, work with them and make them their own. The web 2.0 world gives people a forum for collaboration, participation and creation but the traditional classroom setting, with teacher guiding and instructing, wading through the 'flood' of information and gathering the relevant into a smaller tidepool, gives students the opportunity to examine without being knocked down by the next wave of information.