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Terry Elliott

Doc Horse Tales: Why write? Because you love to. - 0 views

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doc horse tales

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  • Because you love to.
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      We write more now -- on paper and digitally -- because we can. 
  • Humans “write” because it is our distinctive character
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      How old is our writing?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 04 Aug 13
       
      5000 years?
  • “writing,” consider expanding the field of composition.
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  • mode, media, audience, purpose, and situation
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      I'm thinking of shared purpose here in connected learning - working in teams to create, revise, and share in  collaboration that ripples onward to others to remix. Is this notion of, "what will someone else do with this" an incentive to quantity? quality? community?
  • Let writing go to edge of consciousness. 
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      The edge - this could take time though, with writers struggling to think they can write. But finding the one gem in the work is important to build the confidence needed to become so is important.
  • write until we find this for ourselves, how can we expect it in our classroom?
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      As Terry Elliot says: https://vine.co/v/hbu6EJ3Vbe5
  • enthusiasm motivates
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      At least, do this for the kids. Those students who love to write may teach the teacher. :)
  • Can’t find time?  No easy solution here, but try buying yourself out
    • Sheri Edwards
      Sheri Edwards on 03 Aug 13
       
      I laughed. I do this. Someone else takes care of the yard. :) Now I love gardening, but don't garden. My garden is of words blossoming into ideas and images and inspiration.
Åke Nygren

Connected Learning Principles | Connected Learning - 0 views

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shared by Åke Nygren on 07 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • At the core of connected learning are three values:
  • Equity
  • Full Participation
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  • Interest-powered
  • In order to realize these values, connected learning seeks to harness and integrate the learning that young people pursue in the spheres of interest, peer relations, and academics based on the following three learning principles:
  • Social connection
  • Peer-supported
  • Academically oriented
  • Connected learning builds on what we’ve long known about the value and effectiveness of interest-driven, peer-supported, and academically relevant learning; but in addition, connected learning calls on today’s interactive and networked media in an effort to make these forms of learning more effective, better integrated, and broadly accessible. The following design principles involve integrating the spheres of interests, peers, and academics, and broadening access through the power of today’s technology.
  • Shared purpose
  • Production-centered
  • Openly networked
  • The principles of connected learning weren’t born in the digital age, but they are extraordinarily well-suited to it.
Terry Elliott

Penn & Teller's Teller on How to Be an Effective Teacher - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Terry Elliott on 25 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • The first job of a teacher is to make the student fall in love with the subject.
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 25 Jan 16
       
      passion as prelude make?
    • Terry Elliott
      Terry Elliott on 25 Jan 16
       
      Make?
  • the teacher has a duty to engage, to create romance that can transform apathy into interest, and, if a teacher does her job well, a sort of transference of enthusiasm from teacher to student takes place.
  • “If you don’t have both astonishment and content, you have either a technical exercise or you have a lecture.”
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  • Teller’s educational philosophy is rooted in the philosopher A.N. Whitehead’s “rhythm of education,” a theory that asserts learning happens in three stages: romance, precision, and generalization.
  • Romance, argued Teller, precedes all else.
  • What I have, however, is delight. I get excited about things. That is at the root of what you want out of a teacher; a delight in what the subject is, in the operation. That’s what affects students.”
  • It’s easy to disregard the entertainment of your students as pandering, but it’s not, Teller stressed, citing Frances Ferguson’s The Idea of a Theater: The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective. “In the art that lasts, there’s always a balance: purpose that is action, passion that is feelings, and perception that is intellectual content. In Shakespeare, for example, there is always a level that is just action, showbiz. There is always a level that's strongly passionate, and there’s always a level that’s got intellectual content.”
  • Learning, like magic, should make people uncomfortable, because neither are passive acts. Elaborating on the analogy, he continued, “Magic doesn’t wash over you like a gentle, reassuring lullaby. In magic, what you see comes into conflict with what you know, and that discomfort creates a kind of energy and a spark that is extremely exciting. That level of participation that magic brings from you by making you uncomfortable is a very good thing.”
  • When I go outside at night and look up at the stars, the feeling that I get is not comfort. The feeling that I get is a kind of delicious discomfort at knowing that there is so much out there that I do not understand and the joy in recognizing that there is enormous mystery, which is not a comfortable thing. This, I think, is the principal gift of education.
Connected Learning

Connected Learning - 13 views

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equity social connection participation production-centered openly-networked shared-purpose interest-powered peer-supported academically-oriented

shared by Connected Learning on 28 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Connected Learning on 28 Apr 12
     
    Connected learning seeks to tie together the respected historical body of research on how youth best learn with the opportunities made available through today's networked and digital media. Connected learning is real-world. It's social. It's hands-on. It's active. It's networked. It's personal. It's effective. Through a new vision of learning, it holds out the possibility for productive and broad-based educational change.
  • anastacia3344 on 20 Jul 22
     
    Interesting info. I didn't know about that. Thanks!
  • rachel999 on 20 Jul 22
     
    Connected learning combines personal interests, supportive relationships, and opportunities. I'm currently working with the guys from https://www.topwritersreview.com/reviews/gradesfixer/ and we've recently written an article about connected learning. Its environments link learning in school, home, and community because learners achieve best when their learning is reinforced and supported in multiple settings.
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