Cute cartoon! I had a SMARTBoard installed in my classroom last year and I relied on my students to help me learn how to use it. Even the students who had never used the board before had a better idea how to operate it than I did. I guess that is because they are digital natives and unfortunately, I am not.
"When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"- Spock, my hero(with acknowledgment to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our job is to teach the kids we have, not the kids we used to have, not the kids we wish we had, not the kids who exist only in our dreams.
I tried to teach my child with books, he only gave me puzzled looks. I tried to teach my child with words. They passed him by - often unheard. Despairingly, I turned aside. "How shall I teach this child?" I cried. Into my hand he put the key. "Come", he said, "and play with me."
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Peter Drucker
"You have brains in your head. Your feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose." - Dr. Seuss
"For educators to master the art of seeing student potential, they must look beyond the textbook to the students standing before them - to that young apprentice, to that blank canvas, and see the masterpiece they can become." - R. Cannizzaro
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Cute cartoon! I had a SMARTBoard installed in my classroom last year and I relied on my students to help me learn how to use it. Even the students who had never used the board before had a better idea how to operate it than I did. I guess that is because they are digital natives and unfortunately, I am not.
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