Met Dave Warlick today.
My head is buzzing from a couple of great workshops with Dave Warlick in Exeter, NH today:
Right & Wrong on Info Highway: For Love of the Truth
and
The Three T’s of Teaching in the 21st Century
Some great lines/thoughts:
We must stop teaching children to trust the authority of information… we must teach them to PROVE the authority.
Students need to learn to ask questions about the information they find.
“We’ve got to Love and Protect the Truth.”
and
The future that we need to prepare our kids for is the future that they choose.
An outstanding day, and a real pleasure to finally meet this great thinker of our time.
(He said I sound taller on my podcast…. wow… isn’t Garage Band great?!)
4 responses so far ↓
1 Kathy // Sep 29, 2005 at 9:04 pm
Bob,
You summarized Dave’s day with us in Penacook, NH as well. While we haven’t met…he did introduce us to you via your podcasts. I’m sending your links along to all my teachers.
Kathy
2 Maria // Sep 29, 2005 at 10:57 pm
I’m so glad you had a great day, Bob. I think David is so easy to listen too and yet his words are so thought provoking. My head was spinning all the way home last night after his talk at the dinner meeting. I love how he approaches things by looking for the story in the situation.
Hi Kathy….we can both meet Bob @ McA and see just how tall he really is!
3 Tim // Oct 5, 2005 at 3:47 pm
Hello Bob:
I just wanted to thank you for all of your help. I spent the summer listening to your podcasts, your student’s podcasts and the Bobby Bucket Show! You and your students enspired me to the point that I have just completed my first Podcast (sort of, still trying to get the feed correct for iTunes and the sound better). You also turned me on to David Warlick. I wish I had known he was in N.H.! Keep up the great work.
4 Cheryl // Oct 10, 2005 at 6:52 pm
While listening to David speak I was struck with a thought that our digital natives, students, really do like the process of figuring things out as much if not more than “finding” the answer. I was immediately thrown back to a day in the computer lab when 20 students were trying to figure out Zoombini Island Oddessy,(a great math and science problem solving game for ages 8-12 by TERC and now Riverdeep) and they were just so enthralled with figuring out one step of the journey that they went back and got more Zoombinis and kept trying out the same step until they ‘got it’. Once they ‘got it’ they didn’t have to finish the game, but were ready to move on to the next step, the next process! I love watching the learning.
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