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Ted Talk by Alan November - 8 views

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  • Alan November is recognized internationally as a leader in education technology. He began his career as an oceanography teacher and dorm counselor at an island reform school for boys in Boston Harbor. He has been a director of an alternative high school, computer coordinator, technology consultant, and university lecturer. As practitioner, designer, and author, Alan has guided schools, government organizations and industry leaders as they plan to improve quality with technology
  • Thisþff is a brilliant speech. We need our students to have purpose, they really need to be exposed to content but they really need to control the purpose. Technology can help us with this really bright idea.
  • As teachers for tomorrow we agree that students must have the opportunity to create a legacy through their work.þff Students are not learning for us they are learning and creating information for the world. Empowered to develop and create relevant work can only happen when teachers open their minds to what education is. Authentic learning gives student ownership and the ability to create knowledge and instill a lasting desire to learn.
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  • Finally we have an educator that discusses ways to solve a problem rather than definingþff a problem. Thank you for your practical ideas and strategies to improve education.
    • Adam Hovde
      Adam Hovde on 09 Sep 13
       
      Do we educate our students this way? Do you educate your students this way? How can this help our students become better PROBLEM SOLVERS?
    • Maria Austin
      Maria Austin on 10 Sep 13
       
      Very interesting video! I would look at it in a different way though. I would focus on the sense of purpose that is inside every human being. No matter what we do, we need to care about it, we need to see the reason behind it. More often than not, students are just seen as recipients of data and they are very seldom invited to find the purpose behind everything they learn. Moreover, in order for us to learn we need to have an emotional connection to what we learn. Unfortunately many an educator fail to connect with their students let alone inspire a thirst for knowledge.
    • Adam Hovde
      Adam Hovde on 11 Sep 13
       
      I agree Maria.I was thinking about how this video works with rule 4 "We don't pay attention to boring things." Having the students vested in the learning activity takes out all the boring stuff. Giving the students a reason to care about the learning helps both the student and the teacher. :)
    • Jackie Byford
      Jackie Byford on 12 Sep 13
       
      This is an inspiring video. I can almost pick out the students in my classes that would jump into the various jobs of creating a tutorial. I am trying to make the switch where my students are creating their own learning. My team has decided to do an interactive notebook with our 7th Math students, but after 3 weeks in and seeing this video I think we are missing the mark. We still show our powerpoints, the students write their notes in their notebook in an organized way with a table of contents... but they are still just taking the notes for the most part. We give them the tools(manipulatives and models) to work the problems on their own but really give them little time to really work out the problems themselves. I think what makes it hard is the demand on testing and the curriculum requirements. We teach a new concept almost everyday in a 49 minute class, and we barely squeeze in all the TEKS. My district talks more and more about critical thinking and problem solving...make the tests more rigorous, but if we can't make them care and have that purpose for the learning we are just selling them short! This video really has me thinking! By giving the students the power to create their own learning we are giving them the gift of purpose and helping them learn how to solve problems on their own instead of spoon feeding them the curriculum.
    • Jaime Villanueva
      Jaime Villanueva on 15 Sep 13
       
      Adam, I love the story about the student creating a database for the handicap. As I understand it, a professor contacts the student and wants to pay her for her work but she refuses the money. Most of us would probably have taken the money but I think we would be missing the point that the work or purpose is more valuable than any monetary again. The student's goal was never about the money it was solving a problem that she had identified and had solved. I agree rule 4 applies big time in this situation. Can you image having the teacher give the students busy work and without purpose. Who would have created the database for the handicap? I agree that shifting the learning from teacher to student to peer to peer have better learning outcomes than we would like to believe. The issue I foresee is tenured teachers changing their teaching style to reflect the new teaching strategy. How to do introduce it to teachers as a school district? What percent of the teachers would truly adopt the new teaching strategy?
    • Jaime Villanueva
      Jaime Villanueva on 15 Sep 13
       
      I agree Jackie, students should have a purpose when learning but you must first convince administration to adopt the idea. It is probably harder than we think it is because too many school districts believe their curriculum is the best and does not need fixing. This is why it should come from the community and students. If people demand change it is hard for school districts to ignore it I am not saying they will but I believe there will be resistance at some point.
  • Adam Hovde on 09 Sep 13
     
    A Ted Talk by Alan November in March of 2011. Alan November has traveled the world and discussed education and how technology can be incorporated into classrooms.  Alan did an in-service at my district this year and I got a lot of good stuff from his talk.
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  • Katy Lu on 16 Sep 13
     
    Thanks for prompting the importance of problem solving and suggestions for helping students to create a meaningful learning experience. I absolutely agree with Alan November that involving the community is one of the best ways to help students learn to value different ways of thinking, furthermore to appreciate the differences in each other. Creative-thinking and critical-thinking skills are essential components of problem solving. Students are natural problem solvers, through interaction with one another and participating in decision making offer countless opportunities for students to grow in their problem-solving abilities. Thanks for sharing this valuable information.
  • Martha Rodriguez on 16 Sep 13
     
    Excellent video! It's true on how everything has a purpose; listening to that really stunned me. Nothing was created in vain; everything has a purpose. You only have to find out how to use it correctly.
  • Jeff Blackman on 20 Sep 13
     
    Adam asks "Do we educate our students this way? Do you educate your students this way? How can this help our students become better PROBLEM SOLVERS?" I am not a teacher but speaking for my children, I can say that they are being educated in many of the ways November describes. Particularly in OWNING their learning. I love to hear my son talk about what he learned not only from his teacher but, more often than not, what he learned from his peers. He is in a Montessori classroom and it really is a joy to watch the children choose what they are going to work on together and then see how they help each other. They stay in the same room for three years so in the first year, the younger children learn a lot from the older kids. But then, they build their confidence and are soon teaching each other plus, as they get older, they pass their knowledge to the ones below them.
  • Maria Austin on 21 Sep 13
     
    Jeff, I have always admired the work of Maria Montessori and her legacy to education. Unfortunately, Montessori and Lev Vygotsky (scaffolding and learning through social interaction in a given cultural context) are not emphasized enough in our school systems, in my humble opinion. The prevalence of the concepts of competition and individualism have overridden cooperation and consensus. There should be a middle ground that could be reached in order to provide a more balanced approach to education.
  • shaila a on 07 Dec 13
     
    Motivation certainly drives the most ordinary people to do extraordinary things. This video was not only just inspiring but also raises a question of how many of us are actually able to/ willing to change the way we teach based on what would help our students achieve a life-long learning.
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