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Megan Haddadi

What's Worth Learning in School? | Harvard Graduate School of Education - 0 views

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  • Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi was getting on a train. One of his sandals slipped off and fell to the ground. The train was moving, and there was no time to go back. Without hesitation, Gandhi took off his second sandal and threw it toward the first. Asked by his colleague why he did that, he said one sandal wouldn’t do him any good, but two would certainly help someone else.
  • It was also a knowledgeable act. By throwing that sandal, Gandhi had two important insights: He knew what people in the world needed, and he knew what to let go of.
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  • information, achievement, and expertise.
  • ifeworthy — likely to matter, in any meaningful way, in the lives learners are expected to live.
  • Knowledge is for going somewhere,” Perkins says, not just for accumulating.
  • Just as educators are pushing students to build a huge reservoir of knowledge, they are also focused on having students master material, sometimes at the expense of relevance.
  • The achievement gap asks if students are achieving X. Instead, it might be more useful to look at the relevance gap, which asks if X is going to matter to the lives students are likely to lead.
  • the encyclopedic approach to learning that happens in most schools that focuses primarily on achievement and expertise doesn’t make sense.
  • we need to rethink what’s worth learning and what’s worth letting go of — in a radical way
  • With high-stakes testing, he says, there’s a fixation on “summative” versus “formative” assessment — evaluating students’ mastery of material with exams and final projects (achievements) versus providing ongoing feedback that can improve learning.
  • “students are asked to learn a great deal for the class and for the test that likely has no role in the lives they will live — that is, a great deal that simply is not likely to come up again for them in a meaningful way.”
  • “As the train started up and Gandhi tossed down his second sandal, he showed wisdom about what to keep and what to let go of,” Perkins says. “Those are both central questions for education as we choose for today’s learners the sandals they need for tomorrow’s journey.”
  • Megan Haddadi on 19 Feb 15
     
    David Perkins discusses what's worth learning.  We teach a lot that doesn't matter.  There's also a lot we should be teaching that would be a better return on investment.  
Megan Haddadi

Is it responsible for schools to teach Google Docs instead of Microsoft Office? - Apps ... - 1 views

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  • Megan Haddadi on 03 Jan 12
     
    Google Docs in Schools
Demetri Orlando

UVA Med School Embraces Innovative Teaching - 0 views

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  • they are expected to graduate with the habits of mind—curiosity, skepticism, compassion, wonder—that will prepare them to be better physicians
  • About half of all medical knowledge becomes obsolete every five years. Every 15 years, the world’s body of scientific literature doubles.
  • better integration of formal knowledge and clinical experience and a learning process that is individualized, not one-size-fits-all
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  • One of the goals of this whole model—of having students do a lot of the learning themselves rather than passively listening—is that they need to be lifelong learners
  • Gone is the traditional 50-minute lecture. (Also gone is paper, for the most part.) The students have completed the assigned reading beforehand and, because they’ve absorbed the facts on their own, class time serves another purpose. Self-assessment tests at the start of class measure how well they understand the material. Then it’s time to do a test case, to reinforce their critical thinking and push their knowledge and skills to another level.
  • The room’s interactive technology allows her to link to students’ laptops; it also enables their work to be broadcast onto the big screens. Instead of a blackboard, she can use a document camera, which is like an overhead projector, allowing her to write or draw a diagram that will project on the screens. Absentees can view a podcast of the session.
  • We’re trying to create a situation in which they are thinking as a physician working with a patient, not as a professional test taker,
  • Immediately following the exercise, students move to a separate room where, still highly energized, they watch the video and reflect on their decision making as physicians in that particular situation.
  • studies in modern learning theory indicate that hour-long lectures are not the best way to teach students because the average attention span for listening to one is about 12 minutes.
  • The circular learning studio, Pollart notes, is designed for learning, not teaching.
  • There was some initial resistance. Some faculty felt a little offended
  • Demetri Orlando on 04 Mar 11
     
    a lot of these ideas are applicable to k-12
Julia Kelly

iLearn Technology » Blog Archive » Using Angry Birds to teach math, history a... - 0 views

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  • Julia Kelly on 09 Jun 11
     
    Using Angry Birds to teach!
Demetri Orlando

http://www.cet.uct.ac.za/files/file/FacilitationOnlineWeb.pdf - 0 views

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  • Demetri Orlando on 27 Jun 13
     
    PDF course manual for teaching teachers about facilitating online classes
Megan Haddadi

100 Teaching Tools You Should Know About | Edudemic - 0 views

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    !00 Tech Tools
Demetri Orlando

What I've Learned from Teaching with iPads - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 1 views

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  • As one of my students said, “The litmus test is that it has to simplify rather than complicate life.” The iPad failed in that regard.
  • Students said the two areas where the iPad excelled were reading and viewing. No surprise there.
  • The consensus among them was that the iPad needed five or 10 years more development to be really useful. (I don’t think it will be that long.)
Demetri Orlando

Teaching With a Tablet: One Educator's Experience | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Demetri Orlando on 30 Jan 11
     
    Out of four classes, the class with the iPad got worse test scores. whoops.
Megan Haddadi

DuSable Museum hosts social media meeting - chicagotribune.com - 0 views

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  • Megan Haddadi on 01 Feb 11
     
    About 150 Chicago-area students attended a summit designed to teach them how to use social media to educate and mobilize others about social causes. The workshop, hosted by the National Council of La Raza, challenged students to use social-networking tools the way civil-rights leaders once used traditional media to promote their cause.
Megan Haddadi

Ten ideas for interactive teaching | Curriculum | eSchoolNews.com - 0 views

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  • Megan Haddadi on 09 Jun 11
     
    interactive techniques to energize and engage students- tweeting in the classroom?
Demetri Orlando

'The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching' - Knowledge@Wharton - 0 views

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  • In most schools, memorization is mistaken for learning. Most of what is remembered is remembered only for a short time, but then is quickly forgotten.
Megan Haddadi

Kids' Minds Awaken Through Critical Exploration - News Features & Releases - 0 views

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  • Megan Haddadi on 01 Apr 11
     
    Harvard Graduate School of Education teaching approach "critical exploration"
Megan Haddadi

Legos for the Digital Age: Students Build Imaginary Worlds | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Megan Haddadi on 01 Apr 11
     
    gaming in the classroom Elementary computer teacher Joel Levin uses the digital game Minecraft in the second-grade classroom. In the game, players scavenge for resources and use 3D blocks to build projects that can be wholly determined by the user or the teacher. "I'm able to construct these elaborate experiences, settings, and stories for the kids to move through. Rather than having to shoehorn a lesson around a game, I'm able to think about what I'm trying to teach and then design an entire world around that
smitty213

Peppered Moth - in explain everything - 1 views

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  • smitty213 on 01 Mar 13
     
    Hear the story of the evolution of the peppered moth. The insect adapted to a changing enviornment and helped us understand natural selection.
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iPad As.... - 0 views

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Grading with Voice on an iPad - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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  • One of the frustrating things I found in teaching online last semester was the lack of direct contact with students. The class felt impersonal, despite my efforts to give it life.
  • I overcame this in part by using my iPad to add audio comments to grading. This was a revelation to me. Using an app called iAnnotate, I could write comments on PDFs but also add voice comments, allowing me to make grading more personal but also add details that I otherwise wouldn’t have included.
  • mments to PDFs, though, and I initially overlooked the option of voice recording on iAnnotate. I considered i
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