What an interesting class! I was thinking about how this could be tied back to the Schuh and Barab article we read at the start of the semester. I think that one's morals can be linked to his ontological and epistemological views. Are morals interpreted and constructed or are they constant and absolute? Obviously the church would hold to the latter. Even if that is true we still have to make choices in the real world which is not so cut and dry. The case that we read today had to clear right or wrong answer. Each decision was laden with moral dilemmas.
Having code of ethics is nothing new. It is possible that the most famous code of ethics was chivalry. A quick Google search will give you a list of this ethical code:
To fear God and maintain His Church
To serve the liege lord in valor and faith
To protect the weak and defenceless
To give succour to widows and orphans
To refrain from the wanton giving of offence
To live by honour and for glory
To despise pecuniary reward
To fight for the welfare of all
To obey those placed in authority
To guard the honour of fellow knights
To eschew unfairness, meanness and deceit
To keep faith
At all times to speak the truth
To persevere to the end in any enterprise begun
To respect the honour of women
Never to refuse a challenge from an equal
Never to turn the back upon a foe
Some say that chivalry is dead but I would contend that it was never alive to begin with. These were brutal warriors not priests. Which brings me to my point: Should warriors be expected to follow the same ethical code that bishops and priests live by? I don't know the answer to that.
The creation process and innovation seemed interesting but the description of his day to day activities seems really tedious. He did mention how they would sometimes create flash animation and other media. I wonder how they make that decision to make them and what does it cost.
Dan Randell
I liked how these two video go together but I guess that I would ask him the same question as before.
Debra
Great interview! I guess I would want to know how he balances his job, calling, and family.
Rob,
Wow! Sounds like you landed a whale :) Sounds like he has developed amazing personal skills. Why did he recommend those organizations? Are they journals?
John
What are the alternative technologies that they are considering? Are they going to develop a new program or use one that has already been developed. I have noticed that some departments are moving to BrainHoney. "stop covering the content and start uncovering the content." We need to start moving away from grades and more toward understanding. The last part of the interview I think validates the use of PLEs.
Tiffany and Kevin,
What a story! Literacy for change--what do people need to know to make change in their lives. There was a great metaphor of hands, head, heart, feet. He started about drop out rates. What are the classes like? What are the teaching strategies that they use in their classes? It almost seemed like the classes were similar to therapy. Interesting concept of keeping the manual in a wiki format. That is just a heart breaking story but it ended with some hope.
Keith
What are companies doing with the information? How much information they get? What is oniture and what data does it give you?
David
They talk about solving problems. What are their common problems? What are they writing?
She talked about making the client happy. Who are the clients?
Chrisjian,
Very well done! Who are the people on his team. He mentioned that psychology was important. Do they have psychologists on their team?
Alberto,
How do they decide if they want an animation? What does that cost? Is it common for them to have been teachers prior?
While reading the article "The Moral Dimensions of Instructional Design" I couldn't help but ask if I conformed to the mimetic or the transformative tradition of instructional design. If someone simply asked me I would have clearly said transformative. However, if someone evaluated the way that I actually taught I would worry that they would say mimetic.
While I was reading about the consciences in the Moral Dimensions and I realized that I was a better teacher than I am a student. I felt that I was strong in all of the consciences when I was teaching. However, as a student I feel much weaker when I examine my new life as a student. Today is a the day of my repentance.
These were today's most popular stories on cnn.com. I think that it is fair to say that Americans are losing interest in the war when a model's death gets 2 1/2 more hits than the President's announcement to send more troops into Afghanistan.
On the front page of Monday's issue of the Daily Universe there was an article called Facebook in Decline? The article contains a quote that says it all, "When you start getting friended by you grandmother, I think that is when [Facebook] starts loosing its cool." This reminded me of when I started wearing Sketchers to school. One student who wore the same shoes was obviously distraught and I noticed that he started wearing the shoes less and less. As soon as I started wearing those shoes to school they became less cool. However, notice that the article doesn't say that when your grandmother starts using Facebook that it loses its cool. If that were the case iPods would have lost their cool and kids would have switched to Zunes a long time ago. Facebook will lose its cool when kids' status updates are read by their parents as well as their friends. Kids will obviously feel threatened when these two worlds collide. If teachers are to use Facebook in a nonthreatening way they need keep this in mind and use privacy setting to stay at a distance yet still being able to give motivation or send reminders.
My experience with Blackboard is pretty limited. I have used it in one of my classes this semester and see some advantages and disadvantages. It is helpful to post assignments and notes. I also would assume that a teacher could post webcasts or other video material for students to watch and because it is password protected the student can better take advantage of fair use. However, Blackboard is owned and operated by the school. The student has no ownership of the tool. Other disadvantages may include:
mostly used for only academic purposes
students can't upload media
can't have synchronous or asynchronous video communications
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