I was assigned to Joe Bower for my C4T this month. He is a teacher from Alberta, Canada. He prefers the “old school” teaching, with a hint of the new, technological stuff. His first post was Test the Students, Punish the Teachers. He was writing about an article that fired teachers whose students failed standardized tests. It doesn’t matter how well the teachers do on all the other aspects of teaching. They are considered ineffective overall if they do not raise their students test scores. I responded to his post by saying the pressure is already too much for a new, young teacher, but the possibility of be fired because the students test scores aren’t have enough is unbearable. I also mentioned that it’s a good thing a teacher’s ability to teach isn’t based solely on test results.
Joe’s second post was Death by Wikipedia. This post was about the extinction of encyclopedias, and the up rise of Wikipedia. It was a very short post, but I responded with the pros and cons of Wikipedia. One of the pros being that Wikipedia is free, but a con was it not being 100% accurate, since anyone can post on it.
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