{"id":152,"date":"2007-11-13T15:16:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T15:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=152"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:16:39","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T15:16:39","slug":"gary-stager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Gary Stager"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Tim at Assorted Stuff<\/a> for introducing me to Gary Stager.\u00a0 He’s been saying everything I always wanted to about the techno-evangelists<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’ve long been concerned by the educational technology pundits, Web 2.0pians as I like to call them, who herald every new web app as not only an earth-shaking revelation, but the end of school as we know it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I do believe that those Mr. Stager criticizes are about more than just the tools; however, I have questioned that<\/a> in an earlier post. \u00a0 I think they reason they believe in the “end of school” (you just have to think about Neil Postman<\/a>, don’t you?) is that they have a much wider reform agenda that espouses constructivist principles over all other types of pedagogy.\u00a0 A very wise class member pointed out that this view is simply not aligned with the content-focused curriculum teachers work with in the standards based environment.<\/p>\n

When I do presentations, I link the 21st century skills and Tom Friedman (neither of which Stager is a fan of) all the way back to my favorite leadership writer: Warren Bennis<\/a>.\u00a0 Rather than focus on particular technologies or pedagogies, we should focus on the essential story of school.\u00a0 I would like to suggest that that story deals with helping kids become leaders.\u00a0 Bennis believes a leader needs passion, curiosity and integrity.<\/p>\n

Stager’s right: this isn’t new stuff.\u00a0 Even the negative attitudes towards teachers aren’t new, in fact.\u00a0 According to Cuban, it’s always the teachers who get blamed when innovations fail to take off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Tim at Assorted Stuff for introducing me to Gary Stager.\u00a0 He’s been saying everything I always wanted to about the techno-evangelists: I’ve long been concerned by the educational technology pundits, Web 2.0pians as I like to call them, who herald every new web app as not only an earth-shaking revelation, but the end … Continue reading Gary Stager<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,43,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century-skills","category-teaching","category-technology"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-2s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}