Tim Stahmer, Assorted Stuff Blogger, highlights this story about an embedded news reporter. Where is he embedded? In a war? In a mission to a hostile to American media hot-spot around the world? No…embedded in a classroom.
Over the school year, The Washington Post will revisit scatter plots and polynomials, word problems and standardized tests to explore how and why math education is ramping up.
Wouldn’t a more exciting exercise be to provide FLIP video cameras and blogs to the students in that teacher’s class, and allow them to blog each day, include snapshot interviews with the teacher as to what she planned to teach, reactions by other students to the presentation and activities, and the teacher’s self-assessment as to her success?
Wouldn’t this kind of citizen-journalism do more than just waste our time, filtering an experience we are all familiar with–sitting through algebra class–through adult eyes looking back with nostalgia, if it just empowered children to share THEIR perspective and insights into learning as it happens in today’s inner city schools?
