April 2009 – Beth’s Thoughts on Technology in the Classroom

Ben Franklin, Education and the 21st Century, Part 1

April 23, 2009 Beth Knittle Comments 0 Comment

I must admit that I do not like the term “21st Century” anything; learning, skills, literacy. Learning and thinking have not really changed, the tools may have, but not the process. I have been reading Benjamin Franklin’s Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pensilvania, Philadelphia, 1749. This document laid the ground work for the Academy of Philadelphia later to become the University of Pennsylvania. As I was reading I was looking at Franklin’s proposal for study and thinking…

Finding a Research Question

April 20, 2009 Beth Knittle Comments 4 comments

Well I have taken notes on my initial and varied readings, and have written a list of questions. I took that text and created a wordle, hoping it will lead to a more focused research question. No luck, still wandering aimlessly. I am interested in a lot of seeming diverse topics but some how I feel there is a common tread that I just can’t grasp on to. Here goes. The education of the US founding fathers, their classical eduction…

Distracted

April 13, 2009 Beth Knittle Comments 2 comments

I set out on a personal research journey and got distracted on the way. I just got started, how could that happen? I have been reading a wide range of stuff; the history of education, traditional vs non traditional ways of learning, education and democracy, and information on literacy (known by a variety of terms). I just keep reading, and reading and reading. But I am still wandering aimlessly and the list of questions keeps growing, I am not finding…

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