theories, what we “know”

I wanted to blog on my thoughts about theories and what I know before reading any of the actual theories. I sat through all the classes that are suppose to talk about the theories that you are to know for teaching. I felt like I was ready to accomplish all of those theories, but in practice they don’t always work. There don’t have a theory to tell you what to do when a students is homeless, do they still get “home” work? I feel that they only thing we “know” is what we have experienced. We know what works with the group of students we have right now because we deal with them on a daily basis and have tried everything we can thing of to teach them. So in theory, we can understand what is suppose to work, but what we “know” works is what we have actually accomplished in the classroom. And of course, this changes with every set of students you have especially now with the digital natives coming through.

Connectivism

I read this blog and thought, HMMM, I believe this is telling us that this class is moving us in the right direction. I feel like they are saying the same thing as Dr. Lowell. We need to be connected using blogs, wiki, second life. Blogging is knowledge. All the scholarly people are blogging and if you don’t agree you can blog back and discuss your concerns. This to me is like an open invitation to get you ideas and belief or just clear up misconceptions that you may have out there into the world. We are also learning to connect with our students by doing what the students are doing and like to do. This connects us to the students as well as the rest of the world, although, I’m not brave enough to get on myspace yet because I feel like that is just for kids, I could be wrong though.