{"id":2644,"date":"2010-07-14T16:54:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T23:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2010-07-14T16:57:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T23:57:36","slug":"from-the-other-side-of-the-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"From the other side of the street"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2648\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/1040496_2542171f.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2648\" title=\"1040496_2542171f\" src=\"http:\/\/ilearntechnology.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/1040496_2542171f-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/1040496_2542171f-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/1040496_2542171f.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">http:\/\/s0.geograph.org.uk\/geophotos\/01\/04\/04\/1040496_2542171f.jpg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Recently I have been talking to the head of a new school that is opening up in town.\u00a0 The conversation has been rich, and challenging, and inspiring.\u00a0 Sometimes we can get stuck in a rut, talking only with people who agree with us and share our same ideals about education.\u00a0 As a result of these conversations, I have found myself re-evaluating my beliefs about education, the place that technology has, and what it means to teach the whole child.\u00a0 These are all good things, it is good to engage in discourse with people who don&#8217;t agree with you.\u00a0 It makes us stronger, as iron sharpens iron.\u00a0 I posted these conversations on my other blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/dreamsofeducation.wordpress.com\">Dreams of Education.<\/a> The first conversation is a result of our initial meeting, where I learned that this school did not plan on using technology in the classroom and even viewed it as a detriment to education.\u00a0 It is my email response to the conversation.\u00a0 The second post is the follow-up email that I received along with my response.\u00a0 They are long posts but I encourage you to read them. It is good to see things from another perspective.\u00a0 How would you have responded to a non-tech education?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamsofeducation.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/14\/as-iron-sharpens-iron\/\">Iron Sharpens Iron<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamsofeducation.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/14\/beyond-gutenberg\/\">Beyond Gutenberg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have been talking to the head of a new school that is opening up in town.\u00a0 The conversation has been rich, and challenging, and inspiring.\u00a0 Sometimes we can get stuck in a rut, talking only with people who agree with us and share our same ideals about education.\u00a0 As a result of these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,2191,111,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-education-reform","category-inspiration","category-professional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilearntechnology.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}