Too many times, our schools block websites, social networks, and brilliant content rather than emphasize education and appropriate use of these tools. Most of the time, the decision makers don’t even know what it is they are banning. They act out of fear.
-Mike Sansone (Is Fear Disabling Our Students’ Future?)
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For the last several weeks I’ve been following the story of a student teacher who has been blogging his triumphs, failures, and frustrations of his credential program and of teaching in the classroom.
Recently a teacher from within his department confronted him on it with the ominous: “We, the department, know you’re blogging.¹” The blog [...]
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Ben Wildeboer. 9th grade science teacher, etc.
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