MSG-bad+for+head

Well, I had to bail this morning as i'm getting a fairly blinding headache. I've developed an MSG-migraine type trigger and should not have had Ramen for breakfast. Didn't know for sure. Missing the Team Picture.

OK, the assimilation of the information has begun as I begin to see many more uses for the technology and the goal of helping by asking students to use the concepts of the aggregation of information from sources while seeking the validity of same as a project goal in itself. Designing projects that must use a multiplicity of resources is essential. This makes sense as we look at the idea of the role of learning and research as experiential and emperical rather than so definative as was our rote training. There is still a vital role for rote knowledge, but the process itself needs adressing. Our introduction to "Second Life" created some controversy as the clear disparity between those with access via decent computers and those without widens the gap in the process we are lokking at as being a possible future. It was pointed out that there was a theoretical goal of of "every child, one computer", but the practical logistics are staggering. In support of such an ideal, It feels like that if there were true dialogue among peoples, there would be little need for armed conflict. That would be wonderful, except that those in power in various places might have a problem with the free exchange of ideas. Hard enough to pry e-mail records out of administrators of our home turf.

How stimulating a workshop this is. We all need a (paid) semester off to truly explore our possibilities as professional developement. I am looking forward to finding what time I can muster to climb in more and see waht else is there to learn and pass on. My 11th grade daughter is skeptical, but that probably is good. At 16 everything is basically wrong with you because you are old and stupid. I know that I felt that way about my Bell Labs dad and still studying professional dietician mother. Maybe it was because they made me paint the house that summer. Now I get to do that for my own pleasure.

g-gone

oh, I blogged a fairly opinionated piece

http://gusmug-troygus.blogspot.com/2007/07/disparitational-thinking.html