 Posted: Mon 20:26, 22 Jul 2013 Post subject: look at the sweet |
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| The Charisma of the iPad: On Technology in the Classroom,oakley outlet
Alan Jacobs Apr 12 2012, 12:33 PM ET Tweet More Email Print /* */"Use this technology that's fun and indirectly and unconsciously you'll learn all the stuff we want you to learn."Reuters.Over the years a good many people have commented to me that John Keating -- the Robin Williams character in Dead Poets Society, that charismatic lover of and advocate for poetry -- surely had to be the pedagogical ideal, the teacher that every teacher, especially every teacher of literature, would want to be.No, I always reply. That would be Mr. Miyagi, from The Karate Kid. It's not easy being Mr. Keating. Many of his students aren't interested in his subject; others are interested but their parents don't want them to be. He has a lot to overcome,ray ban outlet, and though he does it by pure charisma, the achievement is costly: it's all-consuming for him and dangerous for some of his students. Too much drama is involved. I don't need that. By contrast, look at the sweet |
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