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Reading Writing Responding: Tinkering, Passion and the Wildfire that is Learning - 0 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 19 Dec 13 - No Cached

whether you are creating an environment where learning can take flight - dry kindling, tall trees - or are you creating an environment where, with a lot of damp branches, there is a lot of smoke, but little fire?
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As +George Siemens suggests while talking about connectivism as an answer for the digital age, "learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements – not entirely under the control of the individual."
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Roland Gesthuizen on 19 Dec 13

"In a fantastic discussion as a part of +Ed Tech Crew Episode 240 focusing on what it takes to be an IT co-ordinator, +Ashley Proud spoke about the demise in tinkering amongst students. Although +Mel Cashen and +Roland Gesthuizen mentioned about taking things a part, giving the conversation a more mechanical theme, I feel that tinkering is best understood as a wider curiosity into the way things work."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"In a fantastic discussion as a part of +Ed Tech Crew Episode 240 focusing on what it takes to be an IT co-ordinator, +Ashley Proud spoke about the demise in tinkering amongst students. Although +Mel Cashen and +Roland Gesthuizen mentioned about taking things a part, giving the conversation a more mechanical theme, I feel that tinkering is best understood as a wider curiosity into the way things work."</div>

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The Best Educational Tool: The Idea Board - 1 views

Many parents want to spend more time with their kids, but don't always know what to do. Parents needs something that can help educate their kids, that is where The Idea Board comes in. The Idea Boa...

started by milesmorales on 08 Aug 14 no follow-up yet

What You Have To Know About Homeschooling - 1 views

Homeschooling can be a good way for your children to learn, but if they don't have a good teacher, then your homeschooling efforts will be worthless. A good teacher is one of the most important asp...

started by milesmorales on 14 Aug 14 no follow-up yet

Used Laptop & Desktop Buying and Selling - 0 views

Computers and laptops are gaining a lot of acceptance among the people of all age groups. The availability of abundant facilities and their portability has resulted into the increase in their deman...

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started by ovaltech on 11 Feb 15 no follow-up yet

Why build a Personal Learning Network? - 11 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 20 Sep 15 - No Cached

Nigel Coutts on 20 Sep 15

'Inside the Black Box' was written by Black and William in 1998 and in it they describe the classroom as a black box with inputs and outputs but what occurred inside was a mystery. For many teachers the reality has been that what occurs in their classroom has been both private and isolating, a matter between the teacher and his or her students but a task largely tackled alone. But this isolationist view is, in the age of the social media and networking increasingly challenged and more and more teachers are finding their voice, sharing their ideas and gaining valuable insights from a global community of connected educators.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">'Inside the Black Box' was written by Black and William in 1998 and in it they describe the classroom as a black box with inputs and outputs but what occurred inside was a mystery. For many teachers the reality has been that what occurs in their classroom has been both private and isolating, a matter between the teacher and his or her students but a task largely tackled alone. But this isolationist view is, in the age of the social media and networking increasingly challenged and more and more teachers are finding their voice, sharing their ideas and gaining valuable insights from a global community of connected educators.</div>

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Do you think that it is important for schools to have Internet access Why - 0 views

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shared by Sampath Kumar on 04 Jan 16 - No Cached

Sampath Kumar on 04 Jan 16

We are now living in a cyber age so it is very important for the schools to have an Internet access. Computers and internet are now becoming one of the necessity in life. Our kids will be left behind if they dont know how to surf the net yet.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">We are now living in a cyber age so it is very important for the schools to have an Internet access. Computers and internet are now becoming one of the necessity in life. Our kids will be left behind if they dont know how to surf the net yet.</div>

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Education Outrage: Why do we still have schools? - 1 views

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shared by Melissa Seifman on 18 Apr 09 - Cached

Competition: Why should school be a competitive event?
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We learn what we choose to know in real life.
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Stress: When 6 year olds are stressed about going to school you know that something is wrong.
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Right answers: School teaches that there are right answers.
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But, in real life, there are very few right answers.
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Bullying and peer pressure
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In school there are always other kids telling you how to dress, how to act, how to be cool.
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Stifling of curiosity: Isn’t it obvious that learning is really about curiosity?
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Adults earn about things they want to learn about. Before the age of 6, prior to school, one kid becomes a dinosaur specialist while another knows all about dog breeds. Outside of school people drive their own learning. Schools eliminate this natural behavior.
- Tero Toivanen on 18 Apr 09
  
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Subjects chosen for you:
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Classrooms:
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Classrooms make no sense as a venue for learning unless of course you want to save money and have 30 (or worse hundreds of) students be handled by one teacher.
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Schools cannot work as places of learning if they employ classrooms.
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Grades: Any professor can tell you that students are pretty much concerned with whether what you are telling them will be on the test and what they might do for extra credit.
- Melissa Seifman on 21 Apr 09
  
  I disagree - Employers do have rating systems, performance evaluations, but most of those are on the whole person, not just technical or academic skills
  
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Parents do not give grades to children and employers do not give grades to employees. They judge their work and progress for sure, but not by assigning numbers to a report card.
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Certification: We all know why people attend college. They do primarily to say they are college graduates so they can get a job or go on to a professional school.
- Caroline Roche on 20 Apr 09
  
  So, why is this the student's fault? Why blame, or disadvatage them for this? We should be fighting the system that causes students to work like this, not blaming them for doing it! it is the constant testing and league table system that is wrong.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">So, why is this the student's fault? Why blame, or disadvatage them for this? We should be fighting the system that causes students to work like this, not blaming them for doing it! it is the constant testing and league table system that is wrong.</div>
  
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Confined children: Children like to run around.
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Of course in school, sitting still is the norm. So we have come up with this wonderful idea of ADD, i.e. drug those who won’t sit still into submission. Is the system sick or what?
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Academics viewed as winners: Who are the smartest kids in school?
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Those who are good at these subjects go on to be professors. So those are certainly the smartest people we have in our society.
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But, I can tell you from personal experience that our society doesn’t respect professors all that much, so something is wrong here.
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Practical skills not valued: When I was young there were academic high schools and trade high schools. Trade high schools were for dumb kids. Academic high schools were for smart kids.
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The need to please teachers: People who succeed at school are invariably people who are good out at figuring what the teacher wants and giving it to them.
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In real life there is no teacher to please and these “grade grubbers” often find themselves lost.
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Self worth questioned: School is full of winners and losers.
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In school, most everyone sees themselves as a loser. Why do we allow this to happen?
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Politicians in charge: Politicians demand reform but they wouldn’t know reform if it hit them over the head.
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Major learning by doing mechanism ignored: And last but not least, scholars from Plato to Dewey have pointed that people learn by doing. That is how we learn. Doing. Got it? Apparently not. Very little doing in schools. Unless you count filling in circles with number 2 pencils as doing.
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Government use of education for repression: As long as there have been governments there have been governments who wanted people to think that the governments (and the country) is very good.
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School is about teaching “truth.”
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Discovery not valued: The most important things we learn we teach ourselves.
- Tero Toivanen on 18 Apr 09
  
  Autotelic learning!
  
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This kind of learning is not valued in school because it might lead to, heaven forbid, failure, and failure is a really bad word in school. Except failure is how we learn, which is pretty much why school doesn’t work.
- Tero Toivanen on 18 Apr 09
  
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Boredom ignored: Boredom is a bad thing. We drug bored kids with Ritalin so they will stop being bored.
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What they mean is that school should be like they remember rather than how it is now
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- Caroline Roche on 20 Apr 09
  
  Not accepting students with straight A's only shows your own prejudices. Students can be good at a range of subjects, without being passionately interested in all of them. Lots of people are self motivated, without being teacher pleasers, they just wish to do their best in everything for their own satisfaction.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Not accepting students with straight A's only shows your own prejudices. Students can be good at a range of subjects, without being passionately interested in all of them. Lots of people are self motivated, without being teacher pleasers, they just wish to do their best in everything for their own satisfaction.</div>
  
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Caroline Roche on 20 Apr 09

Why do we have schools? Instead of answering this question by listing all the good things that schools provide, which anyone can do, I will turn the question around: What is bad about having schools?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Why do we have schools? Instead of answering this question by listing all the good things that schools provide, which anyone can do, I will turn the question around: What is bad about having schools?</div>

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Melissa Seifman on 21 Apr 09

Why do we have schools? Instead of answering this question by listing all the good things that schools provide, which anyone can do, I will turn the question around: What is bad about having schools?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Why do we have schools? Instead of answering this question by listing all the good things that schools provide, which anyone can do, I will turn the question around: What is bad about having schools?</div>

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