First weeks back

I really enjoyed our interview day. I think that was an excellent exercise for everyone. It was no doubt good for the few to practice being interviewed but also good to watch, listen and learn. It was both informative but also provided a lot of good starting material to help/encourage us all to start thinking about interview answers ourselves.
The lesson on technology in education just needs to be updated. It felt like we wasted an hour on a history lesson of outdated stuff rather than learning about tools, methods and programs we could use currently. The format would have been fine if the history was kept short (no more than 10mins) and the rest was on info we could put to use in our teaching. As in our online course, there is a lot of information about technology and how to use it that teachers should learn about and perhaps next year, you could cover some of that info in this biology lesson.
As for our 'science for all' lesson, some great points were brought up and I think, for those who haven't thought about it much, that it was a really good topic to start thinking about. I have certainly thought a great deal about what I think science education should be and feel that science should be taught to at least the grade 10 level but that perhaps the content should be modified to cover the aspects of science that will trully be important for this generation to know and leave the "less-important" topics for those that wish to specialize in an area. So perhaps a greater emphasis on genetics and chemistry of pharmaceuticals and bio-engineering rather than say optics. Just a thought. This coming generation, more than any previous one needs the ability to make informed decisions in the area of science.