tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410712178423501059.post4323985912942788763..comments2024-03-28T05:30:22.753-05:00Comments on Techno Constructivist: Where have I been? And other things.Carl Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07539544230024970483noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410712178423501059.post-75255697126710827312011-10-13T00:42:57.449-05:002011-10-13T00:42:57.449-05:00really great blog ...thanks 4 sharingreally great blog ...thanks 4 sharingInformation Technology Jaipurhttp://www.a1futuretechnology.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8410712178423501059.post-28142151901387944152011-10-04T22:25:19.750-05:002011-10-04T22:25:19.750-05:00When I read this I tried to post early this mornin...When I read this I tried to post early this morning but kept getting a SNAFU in the process. But, this entangled story of a past that still haunts us, a cultural artifact of Lorenz's Butterfly Effect and children caught in a web of political and social forces beyond their control just stayed with me all day. I had to come back and think through the ironic - the juxataposition of a political effort to integrate communities because we think that's good for young people with a cultural effort to segregate children because we think that's good for the Hmong children. It's been generations since many of us have had to consider the costs of assimilation within the dominant culture - your use of the parallel to reservations reminded mr of a teacher I once knew who went to a reservation to teach and in search of a culture-she came back with photos of brown children playing with blue eyed barbies at recess and a sense from the People whom she came to know that wars fought with Natives did less to destroy their culture and sense of identity than the reservation model did. I can't speak to that as truth but the photos seemed to. So, what do you do with your experiences? -tell the story, use historical and philosophical underpinnings of educatIon to interpret what you saw and felt in this work, deconstruct the conflict embedded in these two pathways <br />towards education - or lack thereof. And, know that you have something of value to us - an informing process that's worth your time to share and ours to understand. You challenge norms, assumptions, and perspectives in this piece and that unsettles what we think we understand about who we are as educators and what we value for children.Pamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17407082081896465942noreply@blogger.com