Comments on: Planning for Networks of Learners http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2006/08/30/planning-for-networks-of-learners/ Technology is neither the problem nor the solution. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 03:46:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: David Frazier http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2006/08/30/planning-for-networks-of-learners/#comment-10808 David Frazier Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:03:25 +0000 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/?p=15#comment-10808 My overall goal as a teacher was teach students "how" to learn. To that end end I have no problem granting them greater control over their learning. In fact, I don't really think of myself as a teach but a learning facilitator. Someone who assists the student in learning. Learners have countless interests. How can we limit them? Learning communities will allow them to reach out to others that share their interests and though exposure increase their knowledge. Is not that the point? We sometimes forgot that knowledge is not limited to few. There are many "experts" who never attended a college or finished public school. Learning occurs anywhere, anytime, anyplace and from anyone. My overall goal as a teacher was teach students “how” to learn. To that end end I have no problem granting them greater control over their learning. In fact, I don’t really think of myself as a teach but a learning facilitator. Someone who assists the student in learning.

Learners have countless interests. How can we limit them? Learning communities will allow them to reach out to others that share their interests and though exposure increase their knowledge. Is not that the point?

We sometimes forgot that knowledge is not limited to few. There are many “experts” who never attended a college or finished public school. Learning occurs anywhere, anytime, anyplace and from anyone.

]]> By: Frances Branham http://durandus.com/phaedrus/2006/08/30/planning-for-networks-of-learners/#comment-12 Frances Branham Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:10:19 +0000 http://durandus.com/phaedrus/?p=15#comment-12 I can see how a learning community can be established through the aggregators and assigned feeds. I have witnesses several teachers that complain about students loosing interest in reading and writing--I think a web-based learning community would enhance student's reading and writing skills because they are participating in something that interests them. In addition, they are building upon one another's observations and discoveries and there seems to be a great positive in this idea. I have added several feeds that interest me, and when I log on to my computer "I can't stop reading!" Wouldn't that be a nice motto for an elementary classroom? I can see how a learning community can be established through the aggregators and assigned feeds. I have witnesses several teachers that complain about students loosing interest in reading and writing–I think a web-based learning community would enhance student’s reading and writing skills because they are participating in something that interests them. In addition, they are building upon one another’s observations and discoveries and there seems to be a great positive in this idea.

I have added several feeds that interest me, and when I log on to my computer “I can’t stop reading!” Wouldn’t that be a nice motto for an elementary classroom?

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