Comments on: What can you offer a student that they can’t get from google? http://blogush.edublogs.org/2008/03/25/what-can-you-offer-a-student-that-they-cant-get-from-google/ Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. --Chinese Proverb Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:23:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: GingerTPLC http://blogush.edublogs.org/2008/03/25/what-can-you-offer-a-student-that-they-cant-get-from-google/comment-page-1/#comment-94 GingerTPLC Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:29:51 +0000 http://blogush.edublogs.org/2008/03/25/what-can-you-offer-a-student-that-they-cant-get-from-google/#comment-94 Kevin Honeycutt has introduced me to his idea of the 1 hour expert. I've translated it into the 24 hour expert. Give the kids a topic and 24 hours. Encourage the use of Google Alerts and other RSS feeds. Come back with raw info about the topic. NOW. Let's apply this knowledge to what we already know and what we need to know. If you were asked to give a 30-minute talk/presentation that was going to occur in 48 hours, you could most certainly do that. So why can't our kids? Is it not considered "deep learning" by those very same teachers who brought in the MC and T/F tests? Give me a break. Kevin Honeycutt has introduced me to his idea of the 1 hour expert. I’ve translated it into the 24 hour expert. Give the kids a topic and 24 hours. Encourage the use of Google Alerts and other RSS feeds. Come back with raw info about the topic.

NOW. Let’s apply this knowledge to what we already know and what we need to know.

If you were asked to give a 30-minute talk/presentation that was going to occur in 48 hours, you could most certainly do that. So why can’t our kids? Is it not considered “deep learning” by those very same teachers who brought in the MC and T/F tests?
Give me a break.

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