On the Uses and Abuses of Laptops in Education | Beyond School

Another blogger I like (from Beyond School) talking about teachers who view blogs as just another way to turn in homework.

I'm struck by what she's talking about and the similarities to bell hooks and Teaching to Transgress. Creating democracy in the classroom, one of the last bastions of dictatorship, threatens schools as we know them.

On the Uses and Abuses of Laptops in Education | Beyond School: "And it will become drudgery. And the students (not learners here, because “teacher” can’t let go of being “teacher,” dominating, squelching, and dictating to students) will bang out the minimum for “blog homework,” as in old days, and turn to something authentic. Like their MySpace."