Re: "ideologue." Correction noted and acknowledged. Thank you.
I do in fact teach English and see language as a precise tool to communicate to avoid disappointing expectations.
While I "choose" to work for this tutoring company I am not responsible for, nor inclined to justify their corporate philosophies based on another's line of reasoning. And since the presumption has been raised that my teaching methods are limited to the Socratic please allow me to correct the implication. My methods include and are not limited to Bloom's Taxonomyand
Hunter's Methods.
With that said. I would like to congratulate Wiki on their outstanding achievement and hold them in high regard. My hope is that they will set a goal of making their database more approachable for educators.
Let's start with the "fact" that it's not my online tutoring company and any of my teachable moments are kept on topic because that's what I'm paid to do.
Ideologs come while the tutoring company keeps those who choose to muster on with teaching to the objectives of the assignments the teachers give them so their students can learn how to reach conclusions on their own because their foundations are based on "facts." This would be opposed to being inculcated with others beliefs, like tutors having some kind of ownership in a company they are working for.
I've was walking the trenches of classrooms long before Amy Whitherspoon decided to set her back pack on fire and toss it in my classroom.. Students read, quote and are taught how to cite encyclopedias as primary sources everyday because their facts are vetted by research editors before publication.
The way we are trained to find sources for students now is more cumbersome and falls far shorter than using Wiki as a reliable source. I really wish Wiki would do some damage control to their PR status because the students we are reaching log in from the US and Canada.
Last November when an the article A false Wikipedia 'biography' appeared in USA Today the online tutoring company I work for advised its 27,000 educators that we are no longer allowed to refer our students, 4th graders to college freshmen, to Wikipedia because it lacks peer review.
I felt a pang of loss in no longer having Wiki to use as a reference. Our go to source is Bartlby.com which is a real pain because of the pop up ads. Someday I hope Wiki will address this issue in a public article so teachers can be reassured that Wiki is a useful source.
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Re: "ideologue." Correction noted and acknowledged. Thank you.
I do in fact teach English and see language as a precise tool to communicate to avoid disappointing expectations.
While I "choose" to work for this tutoring company I am not responsible for, nor inclined to justify their corporate philosophies based on another's line of reasoning. And since the presumption has been raised that my teaching methods are limited to the Socratic please allow me to correct the implication. My methods include and are not limited to Bloom's Taxonomyand Hunter's Methods.
With that said. I would like to congratulate Wiki on their outstanding achievement and hold them in high regard. My hope is that they will set a goal of making their database more approachable for educators.
Let's start with the "fact" that it's not my online tutoring company and any of my teachable moments are kept on topic because that's what I'm paid to do.
Ideologs come while the tutoring company keeps those who choose to muster on with teaching to the objectives of the assignments the teachers give them so their students can learn how to reach conclusions on their own because their foundations are based on "facts." This would be opposed to being inculcated with others beliefs, like tutors having some kind of ownership in a company they are working for.
I've was walking the trenches of classrooms long before Amy Whitherspoon decided to set her back pack on fire and toss it in my classroom.. Students read, quote and are taught how to cite encyclopedias as primary sources everyday because their facts are vetted by research editors before publication.
The way we are trained to find sources for students now is more cumbersome and falls far shorter than using Wiki as a reliable source. I really wish Wiki would do some damage control to their PR status because the students we are reaching log in from the US and Canada.
I felt a pang of loss in no longer having Wiki to use as a reference. Our go to source is Bartlby.com which is a real pain because of the pop up ads. Someday I hope Wiki will address this issue in a public article so teachers can be reassured that Wiki is a useful source.