One of our tasks for class this year was to follow an Edublogger, reading their posts and hopefully learning a thing or two from them. I decided to follow Joe Bower and his blog "for the love of learning". Joe is a teacher in Red Deer, Alberta, who is looking at challenging the traditional views of schools and education. Hos blog provides the reader with an interesting look at different parts of education, everything from class size to professional development.
I feel like the best part of this blog is that Joe is putting up a lot of different information from all over the world, but at the same time, it is all stuff that we have talked about here at University. I feel like this really shows just how universal education is, and also how universal all of the issues facing education are. Also, a lot of Joe's comments and ideas go against what is considered the traditional model of education, something the world is really moving away from. This is really what drew me to the blog, and has kept me reading it.
Finally, my favorite blog post from Joe is "Here is what Education Hell looks like," for several reasons. First, the video looks like a prank video, just because it is hard to imagine anyone actually thinking this is an effective way to teach teachers at a professional development workship. Secondly, the presenter clearly believes that practice makes perfect, when really practice makes permanent. If the person using repetion is not doing something properly, they will simply learn the incorrect method. Finally, teaching and learning is aobut more than just parrotting something back to a teacher or instructor, you need to look beyond what the teacher is saying, to take the information and actually make something new.
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