Video by John Seely Brown

While I was watchin the video, I realized I really agreed with him. I believe that he 's right when he says that we learn from our peers. The role of the teacher is quite simple: he is a guide. The teacher has to follow the students' learning process and to add information to this process. Of course the students learn from the teacher, but not as much as the peers do.

Age has nothing to do with learning. During my practicum, I probably learn from the students as much as I teach them. I could also teach to a 50 year old man with a PhD. The knowledge is different from one to another.

I like to call it school of life. One could learn from living only. From seeing other people. From being curious ans asking questions.

I strongly agree with John Seely Brown.

Class Management

I truly and strongly beleive that class management and discipline is all about self confidence. During my practicum, I learned that students can feel fear from teachers. Everything is about gestures and posture. I think that if I trust myself students will trust me and respect me. I did one presentation in my practicum and I got very red and nervous, and maybe my voice was trembeling a bit... The students definitly felt it and for them, it's party time !! I think that it is also why ''les remplacants'' often have a hard time. During last class, Mark pointed out that teachers have to fix their limits right from the beginning of the first class, in a nice and calm way as if you wanted to be the ''students' friend''. I strongly agree with that.

The Evolution of Technologies

One particular statement made question myself:
''I believe software quality is low because companies focus more on control than on innovation or quality. ''

While reading this part of the reading, I questionned myself: will evolution and innovation stop one day?? Can Ipods be smaller than that?? Can computer be more sophisticated than they are right now?? Can we reach a certain level innovation?? To me, it seams that this will stop one day. That we, humans, won't think of anything else to satisfy our own demand for technologies....

Online Identity

If I were a teacher, of course I would try to put decent pictures on the internet. But I get drink sometimes. And my teachers do. And I'm sure my future students will too. And if I were an employer, I would not check on the net for any personal information on my future employees. Because it is none of my business. I think it is just a personnal choice to look for someone's personnal life or not. Because this drunk employee on the picture may be the most competent worker the company would have had.

Videos on technologies

My favorite movie was the fourth one. In this video, students are in a classroom and they show their toughts on a piece of paper. With the music and everything, it was a good video !

I love university. I like to learn new stuff everyday and meet people who are just like me. However, to me, there is one problem. Teachers throw stuff at us from a powerpoint and through a microphone. And we, students, are supposed to go on the net and do whateverby ourselves (which is fine...). One particular student in the video wrote down: ''18% of all my teachers know my name''. I agree with that; technologies clearly brings a lack of ''human contact''.

I am myself a user of all those technologies. But these videos kind of... scare me. (please don't get upset Mark! Hahah!) Some people may say that technologies = evolution. To me, numbers such as ''3 hours online everyday'' = problems (such as obesity). Don't you think that there is nothing that can replace the smell of an old book?? I know that it may sound quite ''vieux-jeu''. But I know also that my last cellphone bill could have paid an entire year of university to a student in Nicaragua....................

just nothing..

Just a test to make sure everything is alright!

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