C4T

For this week's C4T I was assigned to Heidi Siwak's blog, 21 Century Classroom: The Amaryllis. Her most recent post was a video she made of a class discussion called, My 7s Explain How they Learn from Each Other. In this video she is asking her class what a disagreement is, and what they can learn about it. Her students were eager to say that not all disagreement is negative, it sometimes just means that they appreciate your point of view but they want it to change it a little for the bwtter. One thing one student said that I really agree with is that if no one ever disagrees with you, or corrects you, then you will never get better at what you are doing. They also said that when you are looking for constructive feedback, you should ask several different people to get differing opinions. Their teacher was eager to agree with all of these points.

In Heidi Siwak's blog post, "The Inner Sanctum: My Visit to the LNS," she discussed how she had recently been invited to take part in a think tank with several other professionals. In this think tank several types of problems were discssed like "What is the role of the teacher in inquiry?" Teachers everywhere seem to have questions like this one. This think tank was created to help discuss and hopefully solve a few of these problems. Heidi Siwak was very thankful for being invited to this and to have a chance to speak for herself and teacher's everywhere.