C4T Summary November

David Warlick’s blog post Since Twitter was Unavailable was a great source of information. The post discussed details of a conference in which he attended Kuala Lumpur (EARCOS: Education Leadership Conference). In the conference David Warlick attended, Greg Whitby was the keynote speaker. David Warlick “tweeted” keynotes in between the spotty internet service. In one of his tweets he discussed “We shouldn’t be talking about schools of the future.” He believes that we have no way of knowing what the future may hold for our students, so we should be handling the right now. He also tweeted how we should “make learning compulsory and attendance optional.”

David Warlick’s post opened my eyes up even more about technology. No matter what we do technology may one day rule. I believe Mr. Warlick was trying to say that students should be able to sit at home to complete assignments. I also believe that he was trying to tell us that there is a good and bad side of technology. I agree with Mr. Warlick when he stated “The more personalized the education experience, the more we know about the learner and the quality of the learning.” In my opinion, that is the fine line between the good and bad. If a student completes work at home and never attends class then the teacher never gets to know the student personally. I agree that we do not know what the future holds for our student’s education. I believe that we should focus on the right now because many of our students are barely making to the next grade.

A Few Tweets from Leaders

David Warlick’s blog post A Few Tweets from Leaders discussed the month of October. In October he possibly attended several conferences on leadership. While writing the post he was in Tokyo’s Narita airport. In the airport, he tweeted several tweets about the Vermont conference. In the tweets, he discussed graduates, learning disabilities, and teachers not asking enough questions.

David Warlick believes that “The Graduates of today’s education need to be uniquely valuable, not identically valuable.” In my opinion he was trying to say that all should be labeled different, but held to the same standard. He also went on to say “often, a learning disability is not so much a difficulty in learning, as it is a difficulty in being taught.” I believe that he was trying to say that the students with the learning disabilities are not the ones having problems most of the time; it’s the teacher having problems learning how to help the students.