re: Are kids naturally good with computers?

From: White, Phillip (Phillip.White@cudenver.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 10:00:35 PST


Eugene wrote:
Let me try and I hope other people will join to help. I'll tell my
observations from my in afterschool program at the Latin American Community
Center. I was more than an observer but it does not much matter...

     Eugene - i liked your examples - they do well in pointing out the important of how instructional methods are embedded in relationships -

     my question is, how can one look at the teacher without pathologizing him? just as the tutor was able to do with the Latino...

     it was interesting to me that even though you observed the teacher in trouble, what then? you too like the kids see to be angry with him ...

you asked, as you always do:

What do you think?

     well, in this case, i think we've failed to see the multiple binds that the teacher is placed in as well - isolated, little meaningful feedback from a source he would see as accepting and supportive - caught up in a historical wave just as is everyone else in the classroom - the complexity is enormous here.

     i'd say that the teacher is in need of just as much support as the students - and that the cultural norm is to blame the teacher and describe deficits.

    what do you think?


phillip

phillip white
university of colorado
school of education



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