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I no longer stand in front of the class and pontificate, nor do the useless question and answer. Now my scholars compose their responses and write up their opinions in thought-out, edited, cared-for e-words. They use e-mail and web pages to communicate. They interact more often with more of their classmates all of the time.
In the traditional class only one student at a time speaks; in my classroom they all communicate simultaneously at different levels in a hypertextual environment, which is more reflective of the real world than the phony classroom we have come to rely upon.
I no longer teach a discipline; instead I weave together many intelligences, genres and disciplines simultaneously via the hypertextual nature of the Web.
This new environment lets us practice constructivism, learning by doing, and just plain good learning via the hypertextual, Web-based classroom. Interaction is more abundant and thorough.
That is how the technology has revolutionized the classroom. It is too bad not everyone has understood this yet. Walk through many schools and the only voices you hear are teachers and not students.
Technology changes schools from being teacher-centered to scholar-centered. We have forgotten that schools are for kids and not for teachers. The technology helps the kids wrest the power from the teachers.
Ted Nellen Ted@tnellen.com
Published in:
Aimee Dixon acdixon@ualr.edu
Updated October 29, 2001
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