Seven Brilliant Things/Stupid mistakes

Seven Stupid Mistakes/Seven Brilliant Things
Mr. Johnson wrote a list of seven stupid mistakes, and seven brilliant things that are used in the classroom. Many of his points are legitimate, and very true. I picked two of what I thought to be the most important from each of the lists.
Here are two from the seven stupid mistakes:
1."Not supervising computer-using students." I picked this one as my number 1 choice as the most important mistake. I picked this because it is necessary for teachers to monitor what students are doing online and especially in the classroom. When I was in high school, if any student was caught on any website that was not on the list of “appropriate” websites, we got a zero for that class, not just for the day. When I was in high school, facebook and myspace were not really heard of but now that those are very popular I think it is very important for teachers to supervise the computers because a child who is not allowed a myspace at home may create one at school and something bad could happen to the child such as going to meet someone they met online and then they get killed or something else and I think that would be on the teacher and the school for not properly supervising what is going on.
2. "Thinking technology in schools will go away." Technology is here to stay, go get over it! There is no way a person can get through without some knowledge of the technology used today. Students today know more about technology and some teachers may not know about technology, therefore they do not use it or try to just use a little of it and that is only hurting the students. Technology is here to stay and you can’t change that. Click here to view the rest of the Stupid Mistakes.

Seven Brilliant Things:

1. "Accept the role of a co-learner." I think this is very brilliant. It is very important for teachers to have an open mind at all times and always be willing to learn new things about teaching. A teacher that is closed minded and thinks they know everything is only damaging the students. I fully believe that a person, teacher or not, never stops learning.
2. "Empower kids with technology." Teach your students how to use technology and learn with them, if you don’t know how to do something, learn with the students. Just like the above statement, be a co-learner. If you don’t teach your students, then who is going to? I know you will want your students to succeed in life so give them the tools to succeed! Click here to view the rest of the Brilliant things.