Russo Assessment

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Outdoctination

The organic premise to the presentation, that education should be self-organizing, is a core value for me. I am a firm believer that the linear model of instruction is antiquated and no longer useful. Children are intuitive, particularly at the elementary levels. My son for example, who is 4, picks up my IPAD and within ten minutes had figured out how to play Lego Harry Potter with sufficient skill. He opened the game, loaded a character, manipulated the avatar (his character he was playing) and passed several levels. This was all done without explicit instruction on my part. In fact, when I leaned over to give commentary he simply said, 'Papa, I got it. I don't need you help.' The only help he needed was with motor-coordination on some of the actions that avatar needed to perform. Should we rethink out model?

Reflection #2

I think most of all I would like to be able to have a long term plan, both instructionally and hardware-wise, for the implementation of technology led instruction in the classroom. Unfortunately I feel the District is barely coming out of the stone age with its collective response to the issues that surround technology, making it rather difficult to collaboratively plan. I have my own ideas and own plans of course--some radical--and a decent proportion of these plans have to do with experimentation. Overall its not as focused as I would like it to be. Perhaps this is what I will do for my final project, school-wide planning of some sort.