On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 8:08 AM, kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com> wrote:
But as a teacher, you're under no obligation to be stellar or even proficient with every tool. The constructivist approach encourages students to explore into areas beyond the teacher's comfort zone or time constraints (life is short -- that's a constraint).
There's no sense of "threatened authority" when students do lightning talks on topics or tools the teacher has not had much opportunity to explore.
Encourage students to explore in pairs or small teams. Don't forget Pygeo as a possible resource.
Go turtles! Go fractals! PIL is cool. I've used POV-Ray a lot, plan to keep doing that (along with VPython of course). But that's just me, YMMV (your mileage may vary).
Kirby
thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts ! -- roberto