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Saturday, February 20, 2010
We are SO like our students
This weekend is going by a little more uneventful, thank goodness. This week has been full to say the least. Upon first meeting Sara Kadjer, it was nice to hear that not only does she teach at VT and write technology books, but she also is still active in the regular classroom. This adds so much credibilty to what she has to say in my eyes because she is actually using her information in the classroom not in some idealistic world somewhere. To give her credit, she did warn us beforehand that she was going to bombard us with websites and technology "wonders" and it was up to us to take in as much as possible and leave what we couldn't comprehend at the moment. Thank you, Sara, for being realistic with teachers as well!!
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SK is amazing! I agree with you, Trisha -- she has incredible credibility. I learned so much!
I agree that SK was awesome. I also admire the fact that she goes back into the real classroom to keep in touch with things. One remark she said over and over in her presentation Monday was, "What can I do better with this technology?' That lets me know that she doesn't use some new technology just for the sake of sayins she uses it. It has to be a tool to make her teaching better for the students.
I also couldn't agree more. You always have all of these books and parading speakers who haven't been in the classroom for year peddling their stuff claiming it will work for the students, and to hear how genuine she was and how she really had used these techniques in her classroom, and was up front and honest about what didn't work and what did work, and she was just a joy! Not to mention her taking the time out of her already I'm sure exhausting day, to hang out with us for a little bit. I am glad that so many others found her as inspiring as me! :)
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