Commentary with Experts in the field:Over the past four months I have been attempting to contact experts in the field to determine where and how preservice teachers are reflecting on their practice. The following three individuals were people I contacted:1) Suzanne Miller at the
University of
Buffalo. Below is my email to her:
Date:
Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:31:50 [...]
Come check our our new website: http://www.preserviceteacherreflection.edu-a.googlepages.com/home.
We designed this website in attempts to draw more attention to the dearth of research and literature about the places preservice teacher reflect. We also hoped this website might help in the designation of more on-line spaces where preservice teachers’ collectively reflect as a community and grow as professionals [...]
Jamie Myers and Richard Beach, in their article Hypermedia Authoring as Critical Literacy (see link to article below), contend there is a need to provide students with myriad strategies for analyzing their “social worlds”. Similarly, I believe students must be provided with the tools to critically evaluate and interrogate the socially situated worlds we live [...]
I found the following article extremely informative and motivating. Marc Prensky discusses the issue of teachers needing to meet students in a meaningful way. The meaningful way, he describes, is speaking and teaching digitally, the way the current generation of studnets is growing up. We, teacI have attached a link for all who are interested [...]
