Comments on: I Attended a Meeting the Other Day http://mrpogson.com/2008/10/04/i-attended-a-meeting-the-other-day/ One man. Closing, all the windows. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pogson http://mrpogson.com/2008/10/04/i-attended-a-meeting-the-other-day/comment-page-1/#comment-525 pogson Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:16:11 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=128#comment-525 Language is the major means of communication in education and it helps get the job done. I used "moan" meaning that most speakers were complaining about lack of resources for the job: money for teachers, time to do the work, texts, etc. Speakers did speak their mind as did I. Many proposed solutions as did I. IT is a powerful tool in education. For language of instruction, IT may be used to find/index/translate texts. Many of the problems are beyond our control but there are still things we can do to improve education. Even the problems that are beyond our control can be addressed with a concerted effort and collaboration by several groups. In our case, the branch of government paying for energy could subsidize our purchase of higher-performance/more efficient computers and be ahead of the game. Language is the major means of communication in education and it helps get the job done.

I used “moan” meaning that most speakers were complaining about lack of resources for the job: money for teachers, time to do the work, texts, etc.

Speakers did speak their mind as did I. Many proposed solutions as did I. IT is a powerful tool in education. For language of instruction, IT may be used to find/index/translate texts. Many of the problems are beyond our control but there are still things we can do to improve education. Even the problems that are beyond our control can be addressed with a concerted effort and collaboration by several groups. In our case, the branch of government paying for energy could subsidize our purchase of higher-performance/more efficient computers and be ahead of the game.

]]> By: anonymous http://mrpogson.com/2008/10/04/i-attended-a-meeting-the-other-day/comment-page-1/#comment-524 anonymous Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:00:59 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=128#comment-524 That meeting was not "about how to get the job done in education," it was a LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION meeting, and was called such and people did not "moan," they spoke their minds That meeting was not “about how to get the job done in education,” it was a LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION meeting, and was called such

and people did not “moan,” they spoke their minds

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