The Playground Advocate: Teacher Creativity Skill: Solve a Problem - 0 views
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"If only there were some sort of device that was connected to a network of information and resources..."
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Even my most tech-savvy colleagues will occasionally give me the opportunity to use the Let Me Google That For You Web Tool.
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search for information well on the Internet.
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I gave a final exam designed to do just that - provide the opportunity for students to see, touch, and feel that information is cheap and freely available and therefore, there is little inherent value in finding it and especially in spitting it back!. Either my mission was flawed (no surprise), or the deck is seriously stacked against the effort. The result: MUST FIND ANSWERS! Wow, look at me, I have the answers....Couldn't apply it if my life depended on it, but man, just look at my answers! I was preaching the Problem Solver, PBL mantra in a recent conversation and was told bluntly, providing that opportunity in the real isolation of 1 45 minute period out of 7 is a complete waste of time. Man, that stung and I continue to resist it, but there is a very large kernel of CAP T Truth present there.