tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980543455873310836.post2509650494982821855..comments2023-09-03T03:39:36.723-07:00Comments on mcg Connect-Ed: Pendulum Swung too Far: Marc Prensky VS. Nicholas CarrMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06166473678282972781noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5980543455873310836.post-32584165084494973482012-11-03T10:58:42.522-07:002012-11-03T10:58:42.522-07:00In 2008 Marc Prensky was hired to be the keynote s...In 2008 Marc Prensky was hired to be the keynote speaker at our opening day in-service. I teach in East Penn School District in Pennsylvania. His presentation was absolutely awful. He knew nothing about our school district, repeated himself continually, made blanket assumptions without supplying research to support his statements. He was insulting, inflammatory, and completely full of hot air. He also had students on stage who he wanted to bad mouth our teaching staff so that they could make negative comments about the district. They did not, an he continued to ask leading questions over and over trying to solicit criticism that would coordinate with his horrendous presentation, but unfortunately for him- the students did not agree with his bashing of teachers in general. He kept using this annoying catch phrase of “If you don’t like it, there’s the door.” During our afternoon question and answer section he was rude, ignorant, defensive, and openly hostile. He kept obnoxiously repeating “If you don’t like it, there’s the door.” After hours of his berating, vacuous presentation, hundreds of our district employees took the only advice from him that was actually worthwhile: we got up and walked out.Miss Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10404794234429753391noreply@blogger.com