Comments on: Watching New Students, a Revery http://chrislott.org/story/watching-new-students-a-revery/ Musings on education, techology, and life.. Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:19:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: chris http://chrislott.org/story/watching-new-students-a-revery/comment-page-1/#comment-96346 chris Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:31:45 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2007/08/25/watching-new-students-a-revery/#comment-96346 Well, you never know-- it might turn out that being relevant to both won't be a problem. After all, though I sit with my paper notebook, I'm not technologically averse :) And of course you know the tech isn't the point-- get them hooked on the conversation and the rest should come together. But it might take a while-- remember your first time teaching and trying to facilitate good conversations and active learning? If you were like me, you're still working on it! Well, you never know– it might turn out that being relevant to both won’t be a problem. After all, though I sit with my paper notebook, I’m not technologically averse :) And of course you know the tech isn’t the point– get them hooked on the conversation and the rest should come together. But it might take a while– remember your first time teaching and trying to facilitate good conversations and active learning? If you were like me, you’re still working on it!

]]> By: Dawn http://chrislott.org/story/watching-new-students-a-revery/comment-page-1/#comment-96141 Dawn Tue, 28 Aug 2007 23:38:10 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2007/08/25/watching-new-students-a-revery/#comment-96141 Thanks, Chris, for this window on the lives of some of our students. In my corner of Starbucks, a number of students sit "writing in one of [their] myriad paper notebooks, at a table well away from the power outlets" as an active rebellion toward the experience that you describe. The most striking challenge facing me this semester arrives as an attempt toward relevance for the one while enticing the other. Not to mention dodging evaluation-bombs from students whose anxiety shows up as utter inability to engage the most basic non-paper methods. What a time.... Thanks, Chris, for this window on the lives of some of our students. In my corner of Starbucks, a number of students sit “writing in one of [their] myriad paper notebooks, at a table well away from the power outlets” as an active rebellion toward the experience that you describe.

The most striking challenge facing me this semester arrives as an attempt toward relevance for the one while enticing the other. Not to mention dodging evaluation-bombs from students whose anxiety shows up as utter inability to engage the most basic non-paper methods.

What a time….

]]> By: Chris Beks http://chrislott.org/story/watching-new-students-a-revery/comment-page-1/#comment-95839 Chris Beks Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:48:36 +0000 http://www.chrislott.org/2007/08/25/watching-new-students-a-revery/#comment-95839 Awesome Chris... what a way to write too. And yes, other instructors should have seen it, they just might "get" it... Later. Awesome Chris… what a way to write too. And yes, other instructors should have seen it, they just might “get” it… Later.

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