Comments on: BLC06: Marco Torres, Making Meaning of the World http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/ Education and Technology by Steve Dembo Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:20:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Left Lane Ends » 2008 » February » 20 http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-107719 Left Lane Ends » 2008 » February » 20 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:44:33 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-107719 [...] has been a while since I have heard a really good keynote speaker and Marco Torres fit the bill. Digging around online revealed a popular phrase that he must use: Quit, Complain or Innovate (while he didn’t use [...] […] has been a while since I have heard a really good keynote speaker and Marco Torres fit the bill. Digging around online revealed a popular phrase that he must use: Quit, Complain or Innovate (while he didn’t use […]

]]> By: Accelerating Minds : Quote from Marco Torres http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47854 Accelerating Minds : Quote from Marco Torres Wed, 26 Jul 2006 03:21:27 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47854 [...] Quote from Marco Torres Teachers have three options; you can quit, complain, or innovate. Marco Torres' thoughts, posted by Steve Dembo as he summarizes Marco's presentation, pretty much say it all (although I would add that many of us choose a fourth option: showing up and keeping a low profile). Marco's first two options take a great deal less effort and have a pragmatic allure to them. However Marco has most certainly gone for the latter. Colleagues like this give the rest of us a reason to get out of bed and hold our head high. Kinda like the Mac commercials... which would you rather be? Maybe there's a reason we chose this profession after all. Check these out... Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:17 PM cmbrown Filed under: White Salmon School District [...] […] Quote from Marco Torres Teachers have three options; you can quit, complain, or innovate. Marco Torres' thoughts, posted by Steve Dembo as he summarizes Marco's presentation, pretty much say it all (although I would add that many of us choose a fourth option: showing up and keeping a low profile). Marco's first two options take a great deal less effort and have a pragmatic allure to them. However Marco has most certainly gone for the latter. Colleagues like this give the rest of us a reason to get out of bed and hold our head high. Kinda like the Mac commercials… which would you rather be? Maybe there's a reason we chose this profession after all. Check these out… Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:17 PM cmbrown Filed under: White Salmon School District […]

]]> By: Mike Dulay http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47653 Mike Dulay Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:10:10 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47653 Thanks for your thoughtul review! I wish I could have been there. Last year, I was fortunate enough to see Marco Torres' lab and meet a few of his students. It's a magical experience that I doubt could be captured in one keynote. Marco's lab- housed at San Fernando High School- is exemplary of a learning community that teaches technology, as well as work ethic, content, and critical thinking. I fear that the latter three get overshadowed by the technology. Marco's real innovation is pedagogical, and you can see it in his students. Those who are enrolled in his courses have a delightful confidence about them that probably propels them well beyond their own expectations. I suspect this is because they've learned to see the technology as a tool over which the could develop mastery, which then empowers them as critical thinkers. Buidling confidence with contemporary tools is a powerful pedagogical innovation that we probably all should examine more earnestly... My most sincere thanks for sharing! Mike Thanks for your thoughtul review! I wish I could have been there.
Last year, I was fortunate enough to see Marco Torres’ lab and meet a few of his students. It’s a magical experience that I doubt could be captured in one keynote. Marco’s lab- housed at San Fernando High School- is exemplary of a learning community that teaches technology, as well as work ethic, content, and critical thinking. I fear that the latter three get overshadowed by the technology. Marco’s real innovation is pedagogical, and you can see it in his students.
Those who are enrolled in his courses have a delightful confidence about them that probably propels them well beyond their own expectations. I suspect this is because they’ve learned to see the technology as a tool over which the could develop mastery, which then empowers them as critical thinkers. Buidling confidence with contemporary tools is a powerful pedagogical innovation that we probably all should examine more earnestly…

My most sincere thanks for sharing!

Mike

]]> By: Amy Hendrickson http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47363 Amy Hendrickson Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:12:58 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47363 Hi Steve: I really needed this post today. I'm in the process of starting a charter school in an area that has none. I'm leaving my teaching job in my local, small-town public high school to do so. I know a lot of people in my town disagree with what I'm doing (fearing for our traditional public high school), and some people who I thought were friends appear to not be right now. "Quit, complain, or innovate" is really where I feel I am. No one listened when I complained. I was going to just quit, but I realized I love classroom teaching - so here I am. Not sure if I'm really "innovating", but each day I learn a little more and get a little closer to something that I think is going to be really, really neat. Thanks again. Keep up the posting; it is appreciated. Amy Hendrickson Eveleth, Minnesota Hi Steve:

I really needed this post today. I’m in the process of starting a charter school in an area that has none. I’m leaving my teaching job in my local, small-town public high school to do so. I know a lot of people in my town disagree with what I’m doing (fearing for our traditional public high school), and some people who I thought were friends appear to not be right now.

“Quit, complain, or innovate” is really where I feel I am. No one listened when I complained. I was going to just quit, but I realized I love classroom teaching - so here I am. Not sure if I’m really “innovating”, but each day I learn a little more and get a little closer to something that I think is going to be really, really neat.

Thanks again. Keep up the posting; it is appreciated.

Amy Hendrickson
Eveleth, Minnesota

]]> By: Kyle Brumbaugh http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47355 Kyle Brumbaugh Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:46:19 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47355 I'm from Northern California, but we are very aware of Marco Torres' work. We are trying to use some of the same principles here that Marco is using in his program. I am glad to hear that Marco has had such an impact in Boston! Thanks for keeping those unable to be in Boston up to date with the events of the conference! I’m from Northern California, but we are very aware of Marco Torres’ work. We are trying to use some of the same principles here that Marco is using in his program. I am glad to hear that Marco has had such an impact in Boston!

Thanks for keeping those unable to be in Boston up to date with the events of the conference!

]]> By: Weblogg-ed » Of BLC and Books http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47256 Weblogg-ed » Of BLC and Books Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:43:13 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47256 [...] The keynote by Marco Torres was phenomenal I thought. And I loved the message, which was basically to tell educators that we have tools now that just about every type of learner can flourish with, and we need only to find the creativity within us to make it happen. The examples of student work he showed were nothing short of amazing, and worth sharing to every educator audience out there. His kids come from the most undereducated and poverty stricken areas of LA and yet they are succeeding in multimedia. The big question that we’re going to have to deal with is whether we can teach the fundamental literacies through the media that kids are most motivated and driven by. Steve Dembo blogged the session in full. [...] […] The keynote by Marco Torres was phenomenal I thought. And I loved the message, which was basically to tell educators that we have tools now that just about every type of learner can flourish with, and we need only to find the creativity within us to make it happen. The examples of student work he showed were nothing short of amazing, and worth sharing to every educator audience out there. His kids come from the most undereducated and poverty stricken areas of LA and yet they are succeeding in multimedia. The big question that we’re going to have to deal with is whether we can teach the fundamental literacies through the media that kids are most motivated and driven by. Steve Dembo blogged the session in full. […]

]]> By: ALED426 Methods of Adult Ed » An Example of Technology in the K-12 Classroom http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47190 ALED426 Methods of Adult Ed » An Example of Technology in the K-12 Classroom Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:18:47 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47190 [...] This posting is about Marco Torres, a secondary social sciences teacher in inner city L.A., and how he is making a difference in his classrooms using technology. Very inspirational story. He is doing some wonderful projects with his students and I have no doubt he is changing some young lives. [...] […] This posting is about Marco Torres, a secondary social sciences teacher in inner city L.A., and how he is making a difference in his classrooms using technology. Very inspirational story. He is doing some wonderful projects with his students and I have no doubt he is changing some young lives. […]

]]> By: Jack MacLeod http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47188 Jack MacLeod Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:43:15 +0000 http://www.teach42.com/2006/07/18/blc06-marco-torres-making-meaning-of-the-world/#comment-47188 Steve Keep up the great blogging - it helps those of us who couldn't be there this year feel like we're at least keeping in touch. Jack Steve

Keep up the great blogging - it helps those of us who couldn’t be there this year feel like we’re at least keeping in touch.

Jack

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