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Katy Vance

Learning - Literacy | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS - 0 views

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  • Katy Vance on 01 Mar 13
     
    Digital Nation - PBS video, features Mark Prensky talking about changing literacies in a digital world
Ivan Beeckmans

Welcome to the new world of student-centred education - The Nation - 1 views

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  • The path towards student-centred learning is not difficult - but neither is it easy. It is not difficult because all the tools, knowledge and skills required are already available. It is not easy because it requires a significant change in the current mindset.
  • John Holt tells us that children love to learn but hate to be taught.
Ivan Beeckmans

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.
  • but I mistakenly defined achievement in a way most do: with my GPA.
  • 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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  • “Writing exams isn’t a measure of intelligence or knowledge, it’s about getting inside your prof’s head to figure out what’ll be on the exam.”
  • Information is propelled into students without teaching them how to practically utilize it. This is senseless. Regurgitating facts, memorizing figures and formulas, compressing course material in our short-term memory for the sake of doing well on an exam; they are all detrimental to the learning experience. But students still do it because they don’t want to fail. Instead, we should be fostering a culture where, to paraphrase Arianna Huffington, “Failure isn’t considered the opposite of success, but an integral part of it.”
  • We can’t allow learning to become passive. We need to teach students to learn how to learn – to become independent, innovative thinkers capable of changing the world.
  • Ivan Beeckmans on 20 Jan 13
     
    Granted, this is not about digital technology, but it could be part of the fuel to light the fire for change. What do we do when we fall so short of helping almost anyone foster a passion for learning? The quotes here are memorable and relevant: the writer is currently in university.
Linc Jackson

Why Is Congress Redlining Our Schools? | The Nation - 0 views

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  • Linc Jackson on 14 Jan 12
     
    Well written piece looking at US education and the harsh realities of the current and recent political policies regarding PreK - 12 education.
Jeff Utecht

Israel says Hamas 'hit hard' in Gaza fighting - Middle East - Al Jazeera English - 2 views

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  • In comments delivered in a prime-time address on national television, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said that "Hamas was hit hard," adding that Israel "didn't agree to accept any of Hamas' demands" under the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal.
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      Jeff Utecht on 27 Aug 14
       
      What do you think about this?
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