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It's Not What We Teach - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 03 Nov 13 - Cached
  • The fact is that real learning often can’t be quantified, and a corporate-style preoccupation with “data” turns schooling into something shallow and lifeless.  Ideally, attention to learning signifies an effort to capture how each student makes sense of the world so we can meet them where they are.  “Teaching,” as Deborah Meier reminded us, “is mostly listening.”  (It’s the learners, she added, who should be doing most of the “telling,” based on how they grapple with an engaging curriculum.)  Imagine how American classrooms would be turned inside out if we ever really put that wisdom into action.
  • The fact is that real learning often can’t be quantified, and a corporate-style preoccupation with “data” turns schooling into something shallow and lifeless.  Ideally, attention to learning signifies an effort to capture how each student makes sense of the world so we can meet them where they are.  “Teaching,” as Deborah Meier reminded us, “is mostly listening.”  (It’s the learners, she added, who should be doing most of the “telling,” based on how they grapple with an engaging curriculum.)  Imagine how American classrooms would be turned inside out if we ever really put that wisdom into action.
  • Sheri Edwards on 03 Nov 13
     
    The fact is that real learning often can't be quantified, and a corporate-style preoccupation with "data" turns schooling into something shallow and lifeless.  Ideally, attention to learning signifies an effort to capture how each student makes sense of the world so we can meet them where they are.  "Teaching," as Deborah Meier reminded us, "is mostly listening."  (It's the learners, she added, who should be doing most of the "telling," based on how they grapple with an engaging curriculum.)  Imagine how American classrooms would be turned inside out if we ever really put that wisdom into action.
Sheri Edwards

RT : Learn how Google Hangouts are being used by E - 0 views

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  • Sheri Edwards on 17 Nov 13
     
    RT @TeacherCast: Learn how Google Hangouts are being used by Educators to Engage Students and... http://t.co/h5fpVTsF3Y #eduvid #elearning
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Building School-Based Student Digital Book Clubs | MiddleWeb - 0 views

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  • So instead of focusing on skill development alone, we considered engagement.
  • real readers find pockets of time during the day in which to squeeze some reading, known in her classes as “reading emergencies.” Highly portable digital devices make it much easier to exploit these pockets of time.
  • responses to their reading on Kidblog.
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  • Two other elements for engagement, purpose and audience, proved to be the difference makers. When learners know that they will receive feedback when posting their thoughts and questions about what they’re reading, they see how these digital forums can serve them compared to just chatting about the mundane.
  • We stopped referring to this offering as an “intervention.” It was a book club.
  • having a diversity of abilities and interests paved the way toward a more authentic community of readers.
  • readers theater performance,
  • But we don’t plan to quantify the results. Instead we’ll ask questions like: Do they read without the need of a log? Have they ever saved up their allowance so they could get that special title on its release date? Has a whole afternoon passed by because they were so immersed in a book?
  • All learning is social.
  • . Bridging these two worlds through social media such as Google+, Twitter, and Edmodo gives us that authentic experience of what read readers do.
  • teach our students to be critical thinkers of what we read and investigate multiple perspectives before we can say we “learned” something.
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The Origins of Good Ideas - WSJ.com - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 09 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • the way that good ideas usually come into the world. They are, inevitably, constrained by the parts and skills that surround them.
  • the adjacent possible defines all those molecular reactions that were directly achievable in the primordial soup. Sunflowers and mosquitoes and brains exist outside that circle of possibility. The adjacent possible is a kind of shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.
  • The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them
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  • Johannes Gutenberg, for instance, took the older technology of the screw press, designed originally for making wine, and reconfigured it with metal type to invent the printing press.
  • The premise that innovation prospers when ideas can serendipitously connect and recombine with other ideas may seem logical enough, but the strange fact is that a great deal of the past two centuries of legal and folk wisdom about innovation has pursued the exact opposite argument, building walls between ideas.
  • intellectual property, trade secrets, proprietary technology, top-secret R&D labs.
  • they reduce the overall network of minds that can potentially engage with a problem, and they reduce the unplanned collisions between ideas originating in different fields.
  • Modeled on the success of services like Twitter and Flickr, new Web startups now routinely make their software accessible to programmers who are not on their payroll, allowing these outsiders to expand on and remix the core product in surprising new ways.
  • Nike announced a new Web-based marketplace it calls the GreenXchange, where it has publicly released more than 400 of its patents that involve environmentally friendly materials or technologies. The marketplace is a kind of hybrid of commercial self-interest and civic good. This makes it possible for outside firms to improve on those innovations, creating new value that Nike might ultimately be able to put to use itself in its own products.
  • Nike is widening the network of minds who are actively thinking about how to make its ideas more useful, without adding any more employees
  • might well turn out to be advantageous to industries or markets
  • Apollo 13 mission
  • the mission control engineers realize they need to create an improvised carbon dioxide filter, or the astronauts will poison the lunar module atmosphere with their own exhalations before they return to Earth.
  • "We gotta find a way to make this fit into a hole for this," he says, and then points to the spare parts on the table, "using nothing but that."
  • the building blocks that create—and limit—the space of possibility for a specific problem
  • The trick is to get more parts on the table.
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Actually, practice doesn't always make perfect - new study - The Washington Post - 0 views

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shared by Sheri Edwards on 06 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • They found that how interested the students were in the passage was thirty times more important than how “readable” the passage was.
  • Maybe the right question to ask is: Why do some people decide to practice a lot in the first place? Could it be because their first efforts proved mostly successful?   (That’s a useful reminder to avoid romanticizing the benefits of failure.) Or, again, do they keep at it because they get a kick out of what they’re doing? If that’s true, then practice, at least to some extent, may be just a marker for motivation. Of course, natural ability probably plays a role in fostering both interest and success, and those two variables also affect each other.
  • By contrast, when the hours were logged, and the estimates presumably more reliable, the impact of practice was much diminished. How much? It accounted for a scant 5 percent of the variance in performance. The better the study, in other words, the less of a difference practice made.[1]
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  • What’s true of time on task, then, is true of practice — which isn’t surprising given how closely the two concepts are related.
  • Sheri Edwards on 06 Aug 14
     
    "The question now is what else matters." And there are many possible answers. One is how early in life you were introduced to the activity - which, as the researchers explain, appears to have effects that go beyond how many years of practice you booked. Others include how open you are to collaborating and learning from others, and how much you enjoy the activity."
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5 Engaging Digital Icebreakers for Back To School! - Teaching Toward Tomorrow - Educati... - 0 views

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