LOGO-L> Re: responsible for own education

[bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey)]

Tom & Adele Woods <woods@moose.ncia.net> writes:
> Do you have other teachers in your school who want students in
>their classes to use the resources in your room for lessons and projects? Or
>is your situation a case where YOU'RE the technology teacher, YOU do
>something with the kids? If it's the former, there are possibilities. If
>it's the latter, there's a pretty heavy weight hanging around your neck.

Funny, I would have put it the other way around.  If there are other teachers
with specific goals they want the kids to achieve in limited time, then that
limits what you can do.  But if you're answerable only to yourself, you can
just give the kids a wealth of tools, provide a few worked-out sample
activities [as someone mentioned in an earlier thread, this is the Lego
model: give kids a couple of projects in which you tell them exactly what
to do, and then let them take off on their own], and let every kid do what
s/he wants.  You just make a few rules, such as "if you want game programs,
you have to write them yourselves"!


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