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By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 01:17:15 +0000

It’s an old and often valid criticism by now, Molly, but in this case I want to push back a little bit — not out of defensiveness, I hope, but for other reasons. Listwise–

1) This is a presentation, not a teaching. Apple asked me to share the story of our school’s progress and my own path to other ADEs. It’s hard to tell a story by giving the microphone to an audience that doesn’t know that story.

2) Presentation is not the same as pedagogy. I don’t criticize TED Talks for displaying bad pedagogy. Apples and oranges (a pun! a pun!).

So to repeat: “audience” is not “students,” and “presentation” (or “story”) is not “lecture.” Fair enough?

By: Molly

Molly — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:28:15 +0000

I appreciate the presenter’s enthusiasm, but I note a central irony: this is a lecture during which the “students” sit passively throughout. It also demonstrated my presentation pet peeve: dark room, bright screen – the person at the center of the story is secondary to the textual (and occasionally visual) information.

Our biggest problem is that technology use has far outstripped pedagogical change. Sorry, dude, this one didn’t work for me, despite my interest in the topic.

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By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:10:10 +0000

Sounds like it was a great presentation. Plus you probably had more meaningful info then the other people and why cut off genius when it is on a roll! Pat's last blog post..Technology in the Classroom