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• A reply on Conversation: Using technology... you're humanizing the classroom? I'm afraid...not at all

  Aug 20 2012: Well, I have to clarify that the idea of recommending the previous essay is just to review some facts that may help to understand what happens with technology. Of course, everyone of us can take whatever we find useful to take a position about this. So I don't want to present Google (and other things) like the main issue. I apologize if that was not the issue of your answer but I wanted to clarify that.
  Thanks for your comments.

• A reply on Conversation: Using technology... you're humanizing the classroom? I'm afraid...not at all

  Aug 19 2012: Good point. I recommend you to read: http://intraspec.ca/CarrGoogle2008.pdf
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  A comment on Conversation: The end of university?

  Aug 5 2012: I wouldn't say the end of the university. Technology is growing but it can be a good branch in education (university/ high school). I think those tools should work as a whole and not to work individually because there will always be issues that can be compensated for both parts. I would say that the issue is to think how technology can complement what I do in order to do it better.

• A reply on Conversation: How do we get students to adopt specific classroom procedures without the use of negative consequences (punishment) or rewards?

  Aug 5 2012: I agree totally with you. I have seen cases where people of other professions go into teaching without having experience just because they don't have another job. It is a sad situation because that leaves the professionalism of teaching aside.

• A reply on Conversation: How do we get students to adopt specific classroom procedures without the use of negative consequences (punishment) or rewards?

  Aug 1 2012: What you said is totally valid and I see your point. Everyone talks regarding his/her experience. However, the problem with teachers could be a problem of training: lack of methodology or specific training according to the subject and the time we are. Even when most of people believe we are in a modern society because of the new technology, I still see teachers that are in the Ice Age using the same books and using the same methodology that was used with them. Learning cannot be something systematize.
  I agree with online education and the use of technology as a tool for learning but teachers are important and public education too.