{"id":1525,"date":"2012-10-13T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2012-10-13T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T18:07:13","slug":"presumptuousness-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1525","title":{"rendered":"Presumptuousness in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1525\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerouslyirrelevant.org\/2011\/06\/what-are-educators-professional-obligations-to-learn-from-social-media-channels.html\/\" target=\"_blank\">comment I made today<\/a> on Scott McLeod\u2019s progressive education blog, <em>Dangerously Irrelevant<\/em>. My response is to his question, \u201cWhen will we view educators that opt out of the use of social media for professional learning as an aberration rather than the norm?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>______<\/p>\n<p>As someone who embraces many social media technologies but who also considers himself an \u201cold school\u201d teacher, I think part of the problem is the ethos that\u2019s intrinsic to many so-called connected educators.<\/p>\n<p>Let me blunt: many of these educators and \u201ceducation experts\u201d are presumptuous to the point of arrogance. Just jump onto Twitter for a few minutes, and you are sure to find another homily about the magical qualities of technology and\/or 21st century learning, and the failure\/incompetence\/fearfulness of those teachers who aren\u2019t on the bandwagon.<\/p>\n<p>I rarely see any credible evidence, and usually it consists of other \u201cexperts\u201d who repeat the same <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/215\" target=\"_blank\">philosophical beliefs<\/a>. And, of course, the echo chamber gets so loud that evidence \u2013 including that which favours direct instruction [for example, see <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/854\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/840\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>,\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/872\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>] \u2013 really becomes irrelevant.<\/p>\n<p>I know many educators \u2013 secondary school educators I\u2019ve directly helped onto Twitter and blogging \u2013 who go online for awhile, shake their heads at the insulting dismissal of their practices, and tune out. [I&#8217;m stubborn, however; I like being a gadfly.]<\/p>\n<p>As Keith has said above, there are many great teachers in our system who do not use social media. Their excellence ought to be part of the conversation, but I\u2019m afraid the echo chamber rarely allows for humility or the exploration of old truths.<\/p>\n<p>______<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my previous education posts that you might find interesting:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1312\" target=\"_blank\">Same Coin, Two Sides: Resurrecting the Liberal Arts Ideal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1297\" target=\"_blank\">Individualized Learning = Pre-Packaged Learning<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/1258\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cTrades vs. Academics\u201d is Obsolete<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/950\" target=\"_blank\">A Lament for the Provincial Exams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/archives\/945\" target=\"_blank\">Questioning Progressive Education\u2019s Sacred Cows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a comment I made today on Scott McLeod\u2019s progressive education blog, Dangerously Irrelevant. My response is to his question, \u201cWhen will we view educators that opt out of the use of social media for professional learning as an aberration rather than the norm?\u201d ______ As someone who embraces many social media technologies but who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[43,22,93],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-21st-century","tag-education-2","tag-progressive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1529,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lexiconic.net\/wheatfromthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}