Thing 7C – Catching up on Reading
December 18, 2008 by dchildress
I admit this class has forced me to take advantage of a great Web 2.0 tool, the Google Reader. I have set this up and thought I would use it, but found myself always putting it off until I had time! When will that day come? Anyway, I have been glad to be “forced” to making this something of a habit, because I always find something interesting to ponder.
Today I read from Bernajean Porter’s blog. She speaks about how fast our world moves these days and how we can let the chaos “take us” or how we can actually make a decision to MAKE DECISIONS about what we should work to complete and incorporate in our lives – just like my Google Reader!
Bernajean writes, “As I work with colleagues on their school grants, projects and staff development events being seeded to make changes, I hear lots of whining along with anger, defensiveness, and some hopelessness as people understandably negotiate getting out from under the pressure of their present realities and the increasing expectations to change learning and classroom life. Some make the changes needed when they see the light (self-perturbation) while others wait until the lighting strikes before they get IT. “
The pressure to change our learning environments will continue and escalate until the shift is made somewhere in time. We can let it “take us” where it will or we can work together and make decsions about how we want to get where we are “going”.
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