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Jill Bergeron

ASCD Express 9.10 - Engaging Curriculum: A Foundation for Positive School Culture - 1 views

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curriculum curriculum design StudentCentered differentiation

shared by Jill Bergeron on 07 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • after I had designed the major portion of the curriculum for a new unit, but before starting it with my class, I would hold a "Curriculum Lunch." I invited students to bring their lunch to my classroom, where I would present a preview of my plans for the next project. I shared the standards and learning objectives as well as the projects I was preparing for the students to work on, then asked for their input and feedback.
  • mostly gave feedback on how to make them more interesting; engaging; and, in some cases, challenging.
  • Students who attended the curriculum lunches would often hype up the project to their classmates, which in turn helped create positive morale going into a unit. Students were excited about the next thing they were going to learn!
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  • project-based learning allows us to engage students at deeper levels, with challenging content.
  • Curriculum design is a perfect opportunity to include students
Jill Bergeron

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 0 views

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technology education learning teaching pedagogy sugata_mitra StudentCentered

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      Mitra's experiment- what will kids do with a computer?
  • “If you put a computer in front of children and remove all other adult restrictions, they will self-organize around it,” Mitra says, “like bees around a flower.”
  • “The bottom line is, if you’re not the one controlling your learning, you’re not going to learn as well.”
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  • Theorists from Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi to Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori have argued that students should learn by playing and following their curiosity.
  • The study found that when the subjects controlled their own observations, they exhibited more coordination between the hippocampus and other parts of the brain involved in learning and posted a 23 percent improvement in their ability to remember objects. “The bottom line is, if you’re not the one who’s controlling your learning, you’re not going to learn as well,” says lead researcher Joel Voss, now a neuroscientist at Northwestern University.
  • A similar study at UC Berkeley demonstrated that kids given no instruction were much more likely to come up with novel solutions to a problem.
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