Disrupting Class: Student-Centric Education Is the Future | Edutopia - 0 views
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Current Classrooms -- Teacher Centric: Standardization, which replaced personalization as public school enrollment rose in the late 1800s, still dictates the way subjects are taught
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Future Classrooms -- Student Centric: This model utilizes the teacher as mentor, problem solver, and support person
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Students partake in interactive learning with computers and other technology devices; teachers roam around as mentors and individual learning coaches; learning is tailored to each student's differences; students are engaged and motivated.
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EdTech Index | EdSurge - 0 views
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"EdSurge is the leading site for educators, entrepreneurs and investors involved in education technology. We help educators discover the best products for their students; we inspire developers to build what educators and learners need; we help investors understand the emerging market. Through our weekly newsletters and website, we cover the latest innovations in education technology and yes, the inevitable slip ups. We are building a collection of reports on the latest products. Based in the San Francisco area, we also host monthly meetups for educators and entrepreneurs."
An A+ student regrets his grades - The Globe and Mail - 0 views
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Valuing success above all else is a problem plaguing the schooling systems, at all levels, of many countries including Canada and the United States, and undermining those very qualities that are meant to foster an educated and skillful society.
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but I mistakenly defined achievement in a way most do: with my GPA.
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The academic portion of my high school life was spent in the wrong way, with cloudy motivations. I treated schooling and education synonymously. I had been directed not by my inner voice, but by societal pressures that limited my ability to foster personal creativity.
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Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Our Brains Extended - 0 views
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When my 2nd grader needs to know the meaning of a word, I tell him to use my iPhone to ask Siri, an artificial intelligence program that's always happy to look it up for him. Siri, in turn, uses the free online program Wolfram Alpha, one of the most powerful data analysis tools in the world. If you enter into the Siri (or Wolfram Alpha) search box, by text or voice, "arable land in world divided by world population," in less than a second the phone or computer will find the relevant data; do the calculations; provide the answer—in square miles, acres, square feet, and hectares per person—and cite you its sources.
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The only way to do almost all science today is with technology. No human can handle or analyze the volumes of data we now have and need. Ditto for the social sciences. The research study of the past focusing on 10 graduate students has been replaced by sample sizes of millions online around the world. Being perfect at language translation, spelling, and grammar is becoming less important for humans as machines begin to understand context and can access almost every translation ever done. Those who laugh at the mistakes that machines make today will no longer be laughing in a few short years.
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call the process of envisioning such technically enhanced possibilities imag-u-cation. It's something every teacher and class should spend some time doing.
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Educational Leadership:Technology-Rich Learning:Students First, Not Stuff - 0 views
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Technological change is not additive; it is ecological, which means, it changes everything.
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That means rethinking classrooms to focus on individual passions, inquiry, creation, sharing, patient problem solving, and innovation
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ut we must be willing to consider that in a world full of access to knowledge and information, it may be more important to develop students who can take advantage of that knowledge when they need it than to develop students who memorize a slice of information that schools offer in case they might need it someday.
The Innovative Educator: You can never replace the teacher. Or can you? 10 ways to lear... - 0 views
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I never learned anything I was tested on. After I was forced to memorize and regurgitate onto the paper, the uninteresting, disconnected facts, stayed on the test.
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I don’t blame myself though. I did as I was told and I excelled in the game of school.
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The reality for me is that I would have been much better off without the teachers in my life weighing me down and wasting my time.
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