Feelin' Thtupid-Time to go Back to School
It's been a Lazy/Busy Summer-Lazy July, Busy August. But I've stayed away from the ed-tech blogs presumably to clear my mind...but in the last few weeks I've been feeling "thtupid".
My work with two new schools here in NYC has begun and there are more possibilities than there is time....but it's going to be great. I have had some underlying doubts about what I have to bring to the situation, but I think that has to do with being out of the loop for a few weeks-no writing blogs, no reading blogs and it's interesting that with one morning back on the ed-tech treadmill I'm feeling much better. A good dose of Will Richardson, and my gauge is much closer to "Full".
I've noticed that I don't carry around books like I used to: reading on the subway, new ideas to ponder and put into practice. I don't know if this is symptomatic of more use of the web for information, or a little laziness....But I have missed thinking about this work over the summer. The implications that it has for large issues like human communication, knowledge creation, language development and use, communities of learning-these sorts of things.
Right now I'm steeped in pushing three schools back onto the track after the building custodians have had their way with the desktops/laptops/servers in the building and everything seems like a sudoku puzzle: "Where ARE the keyboards from this room??"
So now it's time to go "Back to School" in more than one way. Time to start learning again and it feels good- I don't like Feelin' Thtupid.
My work with two new schools here in NYC has begun and there are more possibilities than there is time....but it's going to be great. I have had some underlying doubts about what I have to bring to the situation, but I think that has to do with being out of the loop for a few weeks-no writing blogs, no reading blogs and it's interesting that with one morning back on the ed-tech treadmill I'm feeling much better. A good dose of Will Richardson, and my gauge is much closer to "Full".
I've noticed that I don't carry around books like I used to: reading on the subway, new ideas to ponder and put into practice. I don't know if this is symptomatic of more use of the web for information, or a little laziness....But I have missed thinking about this work over the summer. The implications that it has for large issues like human communication, knowledge creation, language development and use, communities of learning-these sorts of things.
Right now I'm steeped in pushing three schools back onto the track after the building custodians have had their way with the desktops/laptops/servers in the building and everything seems like a sudoku puzzle: "Where ARE the keyboards from this room??"
So now it's time to go "Back to School" in more than one way. Time to start learning again and it feels good- I don't like Feelin' Thtupid.
posted by Cabinnyc at Saturday, September 02, 2006
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