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Vahid Masrour

Educational Leadership:For Each to Excel:Preparing Students to Learn Without Us - 36 views

  • lives in a moment when personalizing the learning experience is not just a possibility—it's almost an expectation
  • The ability to learn what we want, when we want, with whomever we want as long as we have access creates a huge push against a system of education steeped in time-and-place learning.
  • we need to fundamentally rethink what we do in the classroom with kids
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  • are we preparing students to learn without us?
  • the new dance that teachers have to learn in order to guide students to success—letting each student create his or her own learning experience yet still meet the expectations of the class, the school, the state, and now, perhaps, the nation
  • students have real difficulty identifying what they love
  • Sometimes finding a passion just takes time; for some students, it takes several texts or subjects before they find something that really sparks an interest.
  • blogs
  • social bookmarks
Vahid Masrour

Eric Mazur on new interactive teaching techniques | Harvard Magazine Mar-Apr 2012 - 51 views

  • shift from “teaching” to “helping students learn.”
  • ctive learning overthrows the “transfer of information” model of instruction, which casts the student as a dry sponge who passively absorbs facts and ideas from a teacher
  • rethink the nature of the college course
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  • Websites and laptops have been around for years now, but we haven’t fully thought through how to integrate them with teaching so as to conceive of courses differently
  • ask my students to read my lecture notes before class, and then tell me what questions they have [ordinarily, using the course’s website], and when we meet, we discuss those questions.
Vahid Masrour

Digital Learning Futures - 49 views

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    pretty good summary of educational trends
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Home | Apps for Good - 47 views

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    Putting the youth to work to create solutions (or at least apps).
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What Do Teachers Do? | Taking Note - 53 views

  • Teachers are more like coaches now
  • teachers were explorers, and I riffed about the changed world, the internet, and the importance of adults helping kids formulate questions, not regurgitate answers.
  • Your theories are fine, but we teach Advanced Placement History, and there’s not much time for ‘coaching’ or ‘exploring
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  • of John W. Gardner’s observation, “All too often, we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”
  • Today’s approaches to accountability may also be turning teachers into competitors, not teammates in a shared enterprise
  • charter authorizers have made it too easy to get a charter, with predictable consequences
  • The schools I am writing about here have strong leadership, a balanced curriculum that includes art and music, and (most often) a strong working relationship with families. Inside these schools you find students and teachers who want to be there.
Vahid Masrour

Vance Stevens: TESOL EVO Proposal for 2009: Multiliteracies - 13 views

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    a graphic with some highlights of what learning is about/for in this digital age.
Vahid Masrour

Project Management for Instructional Designers - 40 views

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    probably worth a read.
Vahid Masrour

Become a Content Curation King | ClickZ - 11 views

  • there's one thing that we have now that we didn't have in the 90's…the mass adoption of social media
  • it isn't just about information seeking, it's also about synchronizing a community
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