There are four main kinds of status that seem to play a strong role in classroom encounters. Group work seems especially affected by the roles that various children seem to fill.
Expert status: This refers to the ability of children to make fine distinctions among individuals to determine who is the “expert” in the chosen field. [...]
Read Full Post »
As someone who is passionately committed to bringing technologies into classrooms, I have a hard time understanding resistance on the part of my CTs or peers. Recently, a classmate posted this on his blog, regarding the pervasiveness of technology in contemporary culture and its (in his [...]
Read Full Post »
What are your expectations for the course and how are they being met (or not) so far?
I have had great success with my courses in the TE department thus far (though I cannot say the same for required courses in other departments). I find that my TE courses have been wonderful at giving me [...]
Read Full Post »
I am a firm believer that the linguistic code of a learner plays a direct and powerful role in the educational opportunities available to that student. The idea of linguistic capital, proposed as a subset of cultural capital by Bordieu, essentially states that a person possessing the linguistic codes of the higher-class can exchange this [...]
Read Full Post »
