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In the latest From Now On:
Pedagogy Does Matter!
http://www.fno.org/sept03/pedagogy.html
By Jamie McKenzie
McKenzie argues that artful teaching strategies offer the greatest
promise of improved student performance - not equipment or scripted
lessons.
Technology as Diversion
http://www.fno.org/sept03/diversion.html
By Jamie McKenzie
Some technology integration lessons are diversionary according to
McKenzie, who argues that classroom teachers now seek powerful ways
to improve student reading, writing and reasoning. Forced to jump
through NCLB hoops and cope with high stakes testing, teachers
require something better than trivial pursuits and powerpointlessness.
In particular, the article about pedagogy reminds me of the argument I've made about the weakness of many univeristy K-12 and outreach programs the goal of which is to plan, design, and implement curriculum and other resources, professional development, and learning activities- often the program staff have little or no teaching experience. At the risk of sounding condescending, if you haven't taught, felt the rhythms of the classroom and the school, worked through a unit from planning to culmination, then you don't have much business engaging in the above work which, if you do go ahead with, will probably wind up weak or unused. An understanding and feeling for pedagogy, the "act, process, or art of imparting knowledge and skill," in a K-12 setting with thirty students or more on a regular basis, is an absolute necessity for developing and delivering curriculum resources, professional development, and both face-to-face and online learning activities.
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SF Chronicle: The SF Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco receive by bequest "five major postwar American paintings... one each by Mark Rothko..."
I am not normally a tremendous Rothko fan, but just yesterday I was looking at a book of Rothko's Multiform paintings (ca. 1947-49), and thinking how good they looked.
Multiform 1948 is one of a small group of untitled works collectively known as 'Multiforms' that Rothko painted during the years 1947-49 immediately preceding the mature works for which he is best known. In these transitional paintings Rothko abandoned the Surrealist-inspired imagery of his earlier works to develop a fully abstract vocabulary.
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