Sunday, April 8, 2012

Blog Post #10

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To Teach Or Educate

I believe that teachers are doing a small part of both teaching and educating in the classroom. I feel as if the kids look up to the teachers in a sense that they are teaching them the things that they will need. The major reason that I became a education major is because I want to make a difference in children's lives. I feel as if a teacher has a very large impact on the student and will make "changes" in their lives. Also, the definition of educate according to the video is illuminate, enlighten, inspire, and power. Those are some very strong words that describe educate. 



Don't Let Them Take Pencils Home is a post about a School Curriculum Instructional Interventionist Academic Specialist who talks to Mr. Spencer about allowing his students to take pencils from the school to their home. I was confused when I started reading, because he and someone else were politely arguing over whether allowing students to take pencils home was a good thing or not. Of course, I finally understood that it was a metaphor for personal computers. Children who use pencils at home instead of pens have a lower score on the standardized tests that they have to take in school.  This is due to parents in low income families not having much contact with computers in any environment other than one meant for entertainment, so they view computers as entertainment.

2 comments:

  1. Thoughtful. I'm glad you got the metaphor/allegory.

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  2. I definitely didn't get the metaphor at first. I wasn't really giving the post my full attention so I just took it for what I read it as, and I thought it was strange that they were arguing over something like that. Obviously, now that I've given it a closer look, I can see what he's really saying, and it makes a lot more sense. I should have given it more attention to begin with because it really is a good post. Also, I like that you want to be a teacher so you can change children's lives.

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