“It Isn’t the Answer Anymore, It is the Question”

I have been going back and forth looking at Langwitches Blog (Silvia Tolisano’s blog-the teacher I interviewed), and came across a blog that I enjoyed reading and thought I would share it to see what others thought on the matter.

Here is the blog to have a peek at.

As I read the blog, it made me think as a future teacher. Would I myself punish a student for going on the internet and finding the right answer as I agree one hundred percent it is very easy now a days to go and find an answer simply by “googling” a question/topic. I think she makes a very good point when she asks whether or not teachers are going to spend the time going back and checking each and every assignment to make sure that they did not plagiarize or copy information off of the internet? Some teachers may do this, but it will take a lot of spare time of which could be spent doing something else. With technology today it is very easy to take and find information, so maybe now as future teachers we need to change the way we grade them and focus more on teaching the skills that are necessary in order for the students to take and use the information they are learning.

What are some ways we could use information/data and still get the students to ask questions? Teaching the information to the students is not the hard part, it gets to the tough part when we as future teachers need to find ways to get it through to the students and be able to get the students to put it all together and create ideas from what they are learning.

As a future teacher what are some ideas you have on this?

Silvia also posted on her twitter this question: What comes to mind when you hear the quote “It isn’t the answer anymore, it is the question”.

What do you think about this when you read it? What are your thoughts on the matter?

March Teach Us Lesson

Today Deborah and I presented our March teach us tool to the class. I think overall it went fairly well, other than the problem I had at the start in uploading my screen. As I listened to the recording I think my voice sounds a little funny, but the teaching aspect of it went decent enough!

Deb and I took turns explaining and showing what Diigo has to offer as a social bookmarking tool, using screen share in elluminate.

We explained how you can choose to add the Diigo toolbar which some like and others don’t, or if you prefer you can use the Diigolette on any computer as you just have to drag it to the top. By using the Diigolette it disappears every time you exit Internet Explorer, and is easy to get. This would be handy when using a computer that is not yours as you don’t have to download anything.

I talked about how to bookmark, as well as the highlighting tool. Showing everyone who was there how to do these things, and what it looks like when saved into your Diigo Library. If you are ever wanting to search for something it is very simple to put your topic in the search bar, and look in the community library. I am sure you will find something to interest you!Overall I think the presentation went good, and I hope that anyone who did not know a whole lot about Diigo and what it has to offer now knows, from what we showed them!

Now that I have been exploring Diigo, and have a pretty good handle on how to use it, I will continue to use it to bookmark websites that I think will be helpful as a future teacher!