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Nigel Coutts

Do We Truly Understand Place Value? - The Learner's Way - 5 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 08 Sep 19 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 08 Sep 19
     
    James Tanton shattered my understanding of the vertical algorithm. More than that, he helped me to see how poorly I understood place value and that many of my students function with the same misunderstanding. What made the experience more humbling was that it took him less than two minutes to do this.
Leonard Miller

How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different - 0 views

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shared by Leonard Miller on 02 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • this world full of information abundance, our minds are constantly challenged to react to data, and often in a way that doesn’t just observe, but interprets. Subsequently, we unknowingly “spin” everything to avoid cognitive dissonance
  • Instead, we might consider constant reflection guided by important questions as a new way to learn in the presence of information abundance.
  • Information Abundance There is more information available to any student with a smartphone than an entire empire would have had access to three thousand years ago
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  • Truth may not change, but information does. And in the age of social media, it divides and duplicates in a frenzied kind of digital mitosis.
  • Specifically, new habits of mind. Persisting. Managing impulsivity. Responding with awe. Questioning. Innovating. Thinking interdependently.
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  • If the 20th century model was to measure the accuracy and ownership of information, the 21st century’s model is form and interdependence
  • learning options today don’t just abound, they dwarf formal learning institutions in every way but clout with the power-holders—parents, teachers, deans, and curriculum designers
  • Habits, by nature, are reflexive, accessible, and adaptable–not unlike knowledge. This is a can’t-miss point. Internalized and reflexive cognitive patterns that are called upon intrinsically, and transfer seamlessly.
  • all else, the 21st century
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  • needs for self-knowledge and authentic local placement, two very broad ideas that come from patient thinking
  • Persistence. Managing Impulsivity. Responding with awe.
  • Old learning forms focused on the thinker rather than the thoughts, the source rather than the information, and correctly citing that source over understanding what made that information worth extracting
  • The tone of thinking in the 21st century should not be hushed nor gushing, defiant nor assimilating, but simply interdependent, conjured to function on a relevant scale within a much larger human and intellectual ecology, one that exposes itself daily across twitter, facebook, and a billion smartphone screens.
  • Leonard Miller on 02 Mar 13
     
    Beautiful description of 21st century thinking
Steve Ransom

Principal: 'I was naïve about Common Core' - 32 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13 - No Cached
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  • The promise of the Common Core is dying and teaching and learning are being distorted.  The well that should sustain the Core has been poisoned.
  • Whether or not learning the word ‘commission’ is appropriate for second graders could be debated—I personally think it is a bit over the top.  What is of deeper concern, however, is that during a time when 7 year olds should be listening to and making music, they are instead taking a vocabulary quiz.
  • The Common Core places an extraordinary emphasis on vocabulary development
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  • Teachers are engaged in practices like these because they are pressured and afraid, not because they think the assessments are educationally sound. Their principals are pressured and nervous about their own scores and the school’s scores. Guaranteed, every child in the class feels that pressure and trepidation as well.
  • I am troubled that a company that has a multi-million dollar contract to create tests for the state should also be able to profit from producing test prep materials. I am even more deeply troubled that this wonderful little girl, whom I have known since she was born, is being subject to this distortion of what her primary education should be.
  • Parents can expect that the other three will be neglected as teachers frantically try to prepare students for the difficult and high-stakes tests.
  • Real learning occurs in the mind of the learner when she makes connections with prior learning, makes meaning, and retains that knowledge in order to create additional meaning from new information.  In short, with tests we see traces of learning, not learning itself.
  • They see data, not children. 
  • Data should be used as a strategy for improvement, not for accountability
  • A fool with a tool is still a fool.  A fool with a powerful tool is a dangerous fool.
Leonard Miller

Education Week: Blended PD Emphasizes Differentiated Instruction - 0 views

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shared by Leonard Miller on 26 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • If blended learning is one of the biggest trends in education, it should offer a way for teachers to practice the approach themselves.
  • Professional development for educational technology has to move away from its historical focus on technical training and toward a broader focus on what educational approaches work best.
  • In other words, teachers not only need to be proficient at integrating virtual experiences into the classroom, they must also be confident in why they're doing so.
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  • the certification program is split into two tiers. The first includes foundational courses aimed at helping teachers understand various strategies for online and blended learning and make decisions about how to use them to create engaging, differentiated classrooms. The second tier provides instruction in the tools and techniques for turning those ideas into reality
  • launched an online and blended certification program
  • No longer solely a teacher, "I am facilitator, fellow learner, and curator," added Ms. Canady. "I'm becoming more focused on giving my students more bang for their buck, more time. I don't want them to do anything they don't need in order to grow."
  • The team generally kicks off the design process anywhere from six to 12 months before the first day of school. The process includes identifying instructional objectives, choosing a classroom model, selecting curriculum providers, preparing infrastructure, and setting up teacher professional development.
  • the coach helped them implement blended-learning models to differentiate instruction, extend learning beyond the classroom, and engage families in the learning process.
Nigel Coutts

Interactions that encourage thinking. - 43 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 23 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 23 Nov 14
     
    Recently I have been thinking about the role I play in encouraging my students to think and to trust in themselves as capable learners. This is largely due to the topic of our Term Four Unit of Inquiry.
mbarek Akaddar

LessonWriter|Literacy-across-the-curriculum|Content-Area Reading|ELLs|TESOL|English Lan... - 25 views

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shared by mbarek Akaddar on 31 Aug 12 - Cached
  • Create comprehensive literacy lesson plans and student materials from any content in minutes.
AskMissAndrea B

Let Sleeping Kids Lie - Why the better sleepers are the better learners. - 0 views

Whether you're a senior citizen, a college student or a fruit fly, evolution has a reason for why we spend about a third of our lives sleeping. See http://askmissandrea.wordpress.com/2011/11/20/l...

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Maggie Verster

Social networking guidelines for teachers - 0 views

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shared by Maggie Verster on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • But ignoring this risk doesn't make it go away; indeed, it leaves many students ill-equipped to make intelligent decisions about what to do when they encounter this kind of material in real life, as they are certain to do. Learners who have access to social media and adult support for reflecting on their engagement with it in their homes will be prepared, of course
    • Maggie Verster
      Maggie Verster on 02 Sep 09
       
      Well put!!!
  • Maggie Verster on 02 Sep 09
     
    A set of nine guidelines, not intended to be the final word but intended to start a conversation "in the best of social networking tradition." Some refinements included.
Rover Rovers

Watch and Learn: 20 Free Educational Video Sites! « Curriki's Blog - 0 views

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shared by Rover Rovers on 19 Dec 10 - Cached
  • Curriculum + Wiki = Curriki « Virtual Education Reality I Spy…Writing Resources » Watch and Learn: 20 Free Educational Video Sites!
  • Are you a visual learner? Bring content to life with educational
  • videos! Here are twenty easy-to-use sites compiling and producing
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  • educational videos for student and teacher use:
  • Rover Rovers on 19 Dec 10
     
    Gratis educatieve video's
Steve Ransom

AESA Keynote - 41 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 05 May 11 - No Cached
  • Steve Ransom on 05 May 11
     
    The type of learning that we all want... Do we all have the will and the courage to make it happen? Listen to Kevin's message and re-imagine what school/learning can be.
  • Janice Robertson on 09 May 11
     
    Just watched the entire Keynote! Have exactly the same start of conference buzz that I'd usually be feeling, without the out of pocket expense! Awesome. I hadn't had the chance to hear him present - love his original use of phrases and stories. You can tell he's a writer... has that gift with words. Some of my favourites - "she had never seen me before - not as a learner" "have you ever seen a kid launch" and "most kids are not braver than blisters. Are there cognitive blisters?" Thanks Steve for sharing - just what I needed before the start of a new week - I'm fired up and ready to go! :-)
Nigel Coutts

Making the most of Bloom's Taxonomy - 29 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 13 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 13 Sep 15
     
    Spend time in any school talking to teachers and even students about thinking and learning and you are likely to hear the phrase 'Bloom's taxonomy' passed around. More than likely you will see it displayed on a wall as a set of processes learners engage with when working in the cognitive domain but how might we maximise the benefits of Bloom's Taxonomy?
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