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Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views

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shared by Bryan Lee on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Socrates believed that we learn best by asking essential questions and testing tentative answers against reason and fact in a continual and virtuous circle of honest debate.
  • sea of trivia
  • This argument rests on the premise that we learn best through data collection without the burdens of judgment and discernment.
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  • incessant communication is really a complex manifestation of miscommunication that does not lead to intellectual growth
  • unearned celebrity
  • creating a new learning and intellectual environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.
  • the European Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution, both of which convinced us that we can make a better world through creating knowledge and applying it to human needs
  • fragments of thought.
  • Human beings already are prone to think in magical terms
  • manufactured culture
  • The celebrity cult replaces real heroes with made-up ones, much to the detriment of children's mental health
  • it glosses over human rights and skirts the issue of responsibility. Without critical reflection, we will continually fall victim to such notions
  • Critical Reflection
  • A second element of the 21st century mind that we must cultivate is the willingness to abandon supernatural explanations for naturally occurring events
  • please the gods or fate to survive
  • problem solving.
  • Thinking empirically is a form of social responsibility
  • Yale Divinity School
  • Bryan Lee on 09 Mar 10
     
    Some of the down side of technological integration
Bryan Lee

Laptops in the classroom: Mend it, don't end it - CSMonitor.com - 0 views

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shared by Bryan Lee on 18 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Admitting laptops into the classroom means facing the reality that in the competition for attention, our best lectures can't even beat solitaire
  • Students no longer need us for the facts because facts are instantly available on the Internet. Instead, they need us to help them figure out what to do with all that data.
  • Teachers must step down from being the sage on the stage and learn to be the guide on the side
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  • solve engaging problems
  • They are synthesizing their own experience, ideas from the professor, and sources that they can find on the Web
  • e-mailing experts, posting to blogs, or editing pages on wikis
  • The Socratic exchange
  • The powerful face-to-face questioning isn't competing with the laptops; instead, it depends on it.
  • Sometimes the instructor is delivering content, but more often the teacher is helping students learn how to learn.
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