Carrie’s TEBlog

            The article “New Way to Teach to Math Adopted” talks about exactly how I feel about math. I completely agree with the new method of teaching math. It gives students real life problems, and they have to show how they solve them not just memorize a way to do it. This new way promotes [...]

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            I agree with RJ that the requirements will help improve education for students who would generally just take “cake” classes. However he makes a point by saying that the drop out rate would be increased. This could be a bad thing or a good thing. I think that it would weave out the slackers [...]

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            I think the requirement of an online course for high school students is a great idea. It is true that computers and internet are a fast growing part of society. People use them day to day and need growing knowledge about them. By requiring students to take an online class, they are exposing them [...]

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I agree with Jennifer that today much of the educational system focuses simply on passing tests. It is all about learning skills but not truly being able to relate them to anything. I think that is a huge part of critical literacy. She puts it well when she says students need to learn how to [...]

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            Lankshear and Knobel had an interesting article; however, I sometimes get fed up with reading about the ‘new’. Every idea and program keeps having new things added to it. I understand we are learning better ways to teach and think about teaching, yet it seems to me to become over kill. It is just [...]

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            After reading the Tozer article, I am realizing that I already thought about some of things it discussed on my own. I for one dislike reading newspapers because it is all propaganda that clouds the truth. In reading about critical literacy, I agree that the writing done today tries to standardize people. It gets [...]

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