reading response

title:We need to talk about what we shouldn't do
author: Mr. Tucker
genre: response
URL: http://tuckerteacher.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/we-need-to-talk-about-what-we-shouldnt-do/


This post was created in a sudden response to 2 twitter posts, one of those by our old friend Mr. Lee. They both stated that we should be focusing on the positive points of using social media tools like twitter for learning. Mr. Tucker However was not so positive with this. He immediately responded saying that instead we should preserve the 5 year old brains of children, not letting them be exposed to anything other than bunnies. This person's point is that they ended up doing poorly in using these tools due to unpreparedness.   Now that he has decided to give up at the beginning stages of his quest, he is discouraging the use of a great tool for learning to other educators who could make something of it.


I found this post while trolling through Mr. Lee's blog, the spicy learning blog and have spent a good portion of my weekend debating this topic with Mr. Tucker via his blog. It's quite fun actually, you can join the conversation at the above link. I hate when people take risks as a bad thing because they are how you succeed, in fact that's the only way (comment if you can think of another way). 


I also think that it's a bit annoying that he seems to think that the fact that he couldn't pull it off means that others can't. Look, if you didn't like school, no that 's a bad example, if you didn't do well at hockey practice but then said to a future hall of famer that there's no point, he may never aspire to that point.


I wonder why this person is so against technology in the classroom and what could of been so bad about using it that he won't even consider it.


No connections, but it does kind of remind me of the learning conferences that I do to where I act as a missionary and try to convert minds.


Go ahead and read the post and comment if you like, use different points of view to join in on the forever argument/conversation.