Comments on: Welcome to the Band… http://jeffwhipple.ca/2006/10/25/welcome-to-the-band/ Musings about technology and learning... Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:57:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Candace Hackett Shively http://jeffwhipple.ca/2006/10/25/welcome-to-the-band/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Candace Hackett Shively Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:12:12 +0000 http://edutrails.edublogs.org/2006/10/25/welcome-to-the-band/#comment-3 Bravo for the man who knows his musicals! I saw your comment on David Warlick's blog and followed it here. This is the best analogy I have heard in a long time. As a 27 classroom veteran who has seen everything from the silent-pulse- back-channel-on-audio-cassettes-that-drove-"ping movies" (filmstrips) to Web 2.0, from open classroom to online school, I agree that it comes down to the human beings using the tools to create a community of learners that includes both adults and students. If "We've Got Trouble," it's the use of a hardware-and-software approach to education instead of the use of human imagination with the pragmatic support of technology. Bravo for the man who knows his musicals! I saw your comment on David Warlick’s blog and followed it here.

This is the best analogy I have heard in a long time. As a 27 classroom veteran who has seen everything from the silent-pulse- back-channel-on-audio-cassettes-that-drove-”ping movies” (filmstrips) to Web 2.0, from open classroom to online school, I agree that it comes down to the human beings using the tools to create a community of learners that includes both adults and students. If “We’ve Got Trouble,” it’s the use of a hardware-and-software approach to education instead of the use of human imagination with the pragmatic support of technology.

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