Wednesday, February 8, 2012
My Response to Personal Learning Networks
My Personal Learning Networks by Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli is a very well written text book with lots of points and ideas worth knowing as a future educator, however, I have a cricital opinion of the text. Every chapter, every section, every paragraph is extremely repeative. Throughout the chapters that we have been assigned we read time and time again about how to intergrate technology into our classrooms and what challenges we must overcome. The book follows the same format. We read that simply throwing facts and quotes at students is a poor teaching method yet this is all the text book does, trying to hide this fact the book presents us with real-life situations that we are suppose to relate too and acts as if that is enough. Mr. Richardson and Mancabelli preach about transforming education and the importance of using technology, yet it is their book that needs to be transformed.
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I completely agree! it was almost too repetitive.
ReplyDeleteAnd the 1st chapter i think is biased. The writers of this book dont look at the possible downfalls of changing education.
DeleteI agree however to some extent knowledge is gained in all ways through information being thrown at you. I don't necessarily think the book needs to be changed but it may simply need to reword it's information to seem less hypocritical.
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