While I'm not heavily tech savvy, I do like to incorporate technologies into my methods of delivering information and teaching in the classroom. This blog is one that seems to deliver news concerning technology in K-12 classrooms and some light discussion on the impact of specific technologies in the classroom. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/DigitalEducation/

Just a cursory glance at some of the posts on this blog seems to point at the type of technology finding its way into K-12 classrooms, tablets and e-textbooks, etc. While I'm merely a substitute in the APS system right now. I've had some trial by fire simple experiences with the Prometheus projector boards that have been installed in many APS classrooms throughout the city. One of the Computer Tech teachers at one of the APS schools I work at periodically stated that the Prometheus boards are useful for the teachers, but that many teachers lack the tech knowledge to really use the boards at the boards' full capacity. He suggested that they could be extremely powerful tools to present material in dynamic ways. Unfortunately, we did not have time for him to elaborate further on what he means with such praise the Prometheus boards. One aspect is certain: the children are accustomed to having the technology at their disposal and I've had numerous 5 to 7 year olds coach me on the bare bones of how to use the Prometheus board. I suppose it may be advantageous for me to look for a blog on the Prometheus board this week. If I locate one. I'll post the link here and likely have to something to say about it. Nothing like a new piece of tech to put a fire under our behinds. So, here's to having no eagles about to feed on this technology. Maybe the next big piece of tech will be called the the Hercules somethinorother. Till next week, keep the eagles at bay and use your new tech as effectively as possible. Cheers!

Arriving at a philosophy of education will be a continuous arrival.  

Educate in it's latin form means led out. Led out of ignorance? To not know? To know? To recognize or identify: to cognize is to perceive or become aware of. Fair enough. 

What need one know and why? How should it be obtained most effectively?

What? Sustaining life - self and family and social preservation? 

Eating, sleeping, maintaining shelter; producing/obtaining food, obtaining a safe and comfortable environment in which to sleep, obtaining the same in which to eat and live; communicating emotional and physical needs to others in order to obtain them and survive another day. 

From observing the results of one’s interaction in the world one learns what behavior results in obtaining food, shelter, care, and comfort. Fair enough, again. 

So education can describe one's process of coming to know the world. This includes school but in no way does school or schooling function as the means of obtaining an education. Schooling I believe is merely a means of developing and obtaining new skills and information with which one can filter, assess, parse, translate, and categorize one's experiences inside school but even more so - outside school. I think the most effective tools or skills one can obtain are those that assist, promote, or function as autodidactic practices.