Scott McLeod's post taken further?

Scott McLeod always gets me thinking... "Low ability teachers, low ability students?"



I tend to agree with his post and the direction it takes. The better teachers for me have always been the ones who were the most intelligent.

Now... the reason his post resonated with me the most is that I always tend to equate discussions like this with technology in the classroom. Education is now at a point where teachers must use technology well to be a good teacher! Those teachers who are comfortable with technology and use it transparently tend to teach our students better than those who don't!

Yes... this is my opinion and I am sticking to it...

Student Response - Converted to TagCloud

I asked my students in my computer applications class the following discussion questions, "What is the purpose of technology? Why do "humans" want to create new technology?" Here is their discussion answers put into a TagCrowd...

Interestingly... I noticed that 3 students spelled easier wrong...

The uses for a Literature teacher to ask their students to do this with their writing assignments is very interesting...

advanced (3) already (3) better (5) days (3) done (3) dont (3) easer (3) easier (19) entertainment (3) everyday (3) everything (3) faster (9) fun (3) helps (3) learn (3) life (9) lives (5) people (10) save (3) stuff (7) technoiogy (4) things (25) think (11) work (8) world (4)

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Tag Clouds: Comparison of Articles of Confederation and U.S. Constitution

What keywords can you find that differ between the two forms of government?

Here is the Articles of Confederation:

appoint article assembled authority confederation congress court determining except forces grant judge judgement land manner nor number officers party power provided question states thereof treaties union united unless war year

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Here is the United States Constitution:

article bill cases chuse clause congress consent constitution court duties except house law legislature note number office person power president representatives section senate several states thereof thirds united votes years

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