Tuesday, August 26, 2008
How Can We Best Challenge the "Innovation Tension?"
A tension exists when we are prompted to be innovative educators and asked to make use of emerging technologies which later get deemed dangerous or too risky and are consequently blocked from our usage. Yet there is an understandable need to ensure "safe" learning environments for our students. How can we best challenge this tension?
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This is a common tensin I experience as an administrator. Often teachers find a web 2 tool and want to use it immediately - often with little thought of the implications. Our loose policy is that teh school needs to control the user accounts of all users, but sometime we have to relax if we need a certain tools and the risks are seen as low.
Apologies for the typos. I posted from the airport yesterday - just as my flight was called.
When cars came along we took on the challenge of teaching them to cross the road. We didn't just put up the shutters and stop them from crossing. Surely we have to take the same educative approach with the web. Sure they (and we) will make mistakes but does that me we just stop them from learning "to cross the road" for fear. What happens when students into the open domain without these skills?
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