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eoeuoeu oepup

Lexington: The underworked American | The Economist - 0 views

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barn elever sommerferie

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  • eoeuoeu oepup on 14 Jun 09
     
    American children have it easier than most other children in the world, including the supposedly lazy Europeans. They have one of the shortest school years anywhere, a mere 180 days compared with an average of 195 for OECD countries and more than 200 for East Asian countries. German children spend 20 more days in school than American ones, and South Koreans over a month more. Over 12 years, a 15-day deficit means American children lose out on 180 days of school, equivalent to an entire year. American children also have one of the shortest school days, six-and-a-half hours, adding up to 32 hours a week. By contrast, the school week is 37 hours in Luxembourg, 44 in Belgium, 53 in Denmark and 60 in Sweden. On top of that, American children do only about an hour's-worth of homework a day, a figure that stuns the Japanese and Chinese.
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Marginal Revolution: Scientific hypotheses from 1956 - 0 views

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  • eoeuoeu oepup on 23 Jun 10
     
    This article was from the Guardian: Intelligence tests recently carried out among more than a thousand children in Wolverhampton schools appear to show a striking and quite unexpected increase in the mental capacity of children born since 1945. A psychiatrist concerned in the tests has suggested that the most probable hypothesis to account for this change is the effect on the brain of the increase in "background radio-activity". For the pointer I thank Michelle Dawson.
Rune Mathisen

The Electric Educator: Google-Proof Questioning: A New Use for Bloom's Taxonomy - 3 views

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prøve spørsmålstilling blooms taksonomi

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  • Rune Mathisen on 09 Aug 10
     
    When I give worksheets with questions on them my students immediately type the entire question into the omniscient search box on Google and in an instant, they have their answer. They have expended absolutely zero energy or effort to find the answer and as a result will not remember the question or the answer. There are two solutions to this problem: 1. Ban the use of Google by all school-aged children. 2. Learn to write "Google-proof" questions.
Rune Mathisen

In Math You Have to Remember... - 5 views

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matematikk pedagogikk metode

shared by Rune Mathisen on 02 Jun 10 - Cached
  • It's not that people cannot think mathematically. It's that they have enormous trouble doing it in a de-contextualized, abstract setting.
  • absent any clear evidence as to how best to proceed, the majority of teachers quite understandably default to more or less the same teaching methods that they themselves experienced. Overwhelmingly that is the traditional method, though the fact that no one has been able to make this approach work (for the majority of students) in three-thousand years does make some wonder if there is a better way.
  • the majority of claims made about the efficacy of various pedagogies are based on nothing more than an extrapolation from personal experience (of the teacher, not the student)
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  • In the nineteenth century and for much of the twentieth, most industrial workers did work silently on their own, in large open offices or on production lines, under the supervision of a manager. Schools, which have always been designed to prepare children for life as adults, were structured similarly. An important life lesson was to be able to follow rules and think inside the box. But today's world is very different - at least for those of us living in highly developed societies. Companies long ago adopted new, more collaborative ways of working, where creative problem solving is the key to success - the ones that did not went out of business - but by and large the schools have not yet realized they need to change and start to operate in a similar fashion.
  • I ask you, which is the more important information: the score on a standardized, written test taken at the end of an educational episode, or the effect that educational episode had on the individual concerned?
  • teaching math in the progressive way requires teachers with more mathematical knowledge than does the traditional approach (where a teacher with a weaker background can simply follow the textbook - which incidentally is why American math textbooks are so thick)
  • First, the students were completely untracked, with everyone taking algebra as their first course, not just the higher attaining students. Second, instead of teaching a series of methods, such as factoring polynomials or solving inequalities, the school organized the curriculum around larger themes, such as "What is a linear function?" The students learned to make use of different kinds of representation, words, diagrams, tables symbols, objects, and graphs. They worked together in mixed ability groups, with higher attainers collaborating with lower performers, and they were expected and encouraged to explain their work to one another.
  • Rune Mathisen on 05 Jun 10
     
    The US ranks much worse than most of our economic competitors in the mathematics performance of high school students. Many attempts have been made to improve this dismal performance, but none have worked. To my mind (and I am by no means alone in thinking this), the reason is clear. Those attempts have all focused on improving basic math skills. In contrast, the emphasis should be elsewhere.
  • eoeuoeu oepup on 05 Jun 10
     
    Jeg skulle gjerne ha gjort mye flere prosjekter/utforsking/åpne oppgaver osv. Men jeg er redd for eksamen. Dessuten - mange lærere tør ikke å innrømme at de knytter seg opp til boka- jeg må ha mye mer støtte fra en bok før jeg har TID (og peil) til å sette i gang)
Rune Mathisen

Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com - 4 views

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kritikk studieteknikk læring

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  • Take the notion that children have specific learning styles, that some are “visual learners” and others are auditory; some are “left-brain” students, others “right-brain.” In a recent review of the relevant research, published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a team of psychologists found almost zero support for such ideas.
  • We have yet to identify the common threads between teachers who create a constructive learning atmosphere
  • many study skills courses insist that students find a specific place, a study room or a quiet corner of the library, to take their work. The research finds just the opposite.
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  • What we think is happening here is that, when the outside context is varied, the information is enriched, and this slows down forgetting
  • Rune Mathisen on 07 Sep 10
     
    Interessant kritikk av de rådende idéene om god studieteknikk, læringsstiler mv.
Guttorm H

Education Week: Attention, Gates: Here's What Makes a Great Teacher - 5 views

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undervisning lærerrollen læring pedagogikk

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  • ’m talking about the effect a serious and interested and knowledgeable adult can have on a group of children
  • learning happens regardless of the curriculum, or the objectives, or the strategies. In any given school, on any given day, you could walk by rooms with master teachers doing their thing. One might be a lecturer, and every day students would go into her class, get out notes, and pay attention. Another might be totally committed to large-group discussion, and every day that teacher’s students would be seated in a circle talking to one another. The teacher next door might deal exclusively with small groups. The one next to him might be convinced that a writers’-workshop approach is the best.
  • When you walk by such teachers’ rooms, students will be smiling. There will be no one asleep (well, let’s not get too carried away).
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  • Great teaching is not quantifiable. As dorky as this sounds, great teaching happens by magic. It isn’t something that can be taught. I’m not even sure that good teaching can be taught.
  • the keys to great teaching
  • Here are 10 qualities of a great teacher: (1) has a sense of humor; (2) is intuitive; (3) knows the subject matter; (4) listens well; (5) is articulate; (6) has an obsessive/compulsive side; (7) can be subversive; (8) is arrogant enough to be fearless; (9) has a performer’s instincts; (10) is a real taskmaster.
  • Guttorm H on 08 Feb 10
     
    "Great teaching is not quantifiable. As dorky as this sounds, great teaching happens by magic. It isn't something that can be taught. I'm not even sure that good teaching can be taught." ... "Here are 10 qualities of a great teacher: (1) has a sense of humor; (2) is intuitive; (3) knows the subject matter; (4) listens well; (5) is articulate; (6) has an obsessive/compulsive side; (7) can be subversive; (8) is arrogant enough to be fearless; (9) has a performer's instincts; (10) is a real taskmaster."
Rune Mathisen

Shocker: Empathy Dropped 40% in College Students Since 2000 | Psychology Today - 1 views

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empati psykologi ungdom undersøkelse

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  • While it so obviously measures empathy that you could easily game it to make yourself look kinder and nicer, the fact that today's college students don't even feel compelled to do that suggests that the study is measuring something real. If young people don't even care about seeming uncaring, something is seriously wrong.
  • Though social media is an improvement on passive TV viewing and can sometimes aid real friendships, it is still less rich than face to face interaction. This is especially important for the youngest children whose brains are absorbing social information that will shape the way they connect for the rest of their lives.
  • Perhaps an even larger factor is the merging of the left's "do your own thing" individualism with the right's glorification of brutal competition and unfettered markets. You wind up with a society that teaches kids that "you're on your own" and that helping others is for suckers.
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  • if you know nothing about someone's real situation, it's easy to caricature it as being defined by bad choices and laziness, rather than understand the constraints and limits the economy itself imposes. Seeing yourself doing so well and others doing poorly tends to bolster ideas that "you deserve your wealth," simply because guilt otherwise becomes uncomfortable, even unbearable.
  • Rune Mathisen on 31 May 10
     
    College students who hit campus after 2000 have empathy levels that are 40% lower than those who came before them, according to a stunning new meta-analysis presented to at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science by University of Michigan researchers. It includes data from over 14,000 students.
eoeuoeu oepup

The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids -- New York Magazine - 0 views

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children education psychology article parenting intelligence praise

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    The inverse power of praise.
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Utdanning - Noen kritiske bemerkninger til ikt i skolen - 1 views

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  • Den digitale teknologien er kommet for å bli. Og selvfølgelig har den betydning for pedagogikk og læring. Brukt med fornuft er det et fantastisk redskap til innhenting av informasjon og til kommunikasjon, til skriveøvelser og tilbakemeldinger. Det er derfor viktig at elevene i skolen lærer å anvende dette, konstruktivt og kritisk. Spørsmålet er ikke om, men på hvilken måte og i hvilket omfang digital teknologi skal brukes.
  • Jeg tror vi er i ferd med å gjennomføre ett av de mest dyptgripende eksperimenter i norsk skoles historie – uten at vi har tatt oss tid til en kritisk gjennomtenkning av konsekvensene. Straks digital kompetanse nevnes eller datamaskiner foreslås innkjøpt til elevene, er det som om alle spørsmål forstummer. Det digitale klasserom ser ut til å være visjonen som forener markedsførere, politikere og skolebyråkrater. Det er moderne, det er målbart (antall datamaskiner per elev), det mimer nytenkning og handlekraft. Jo mer, dess bedre.
  • David Buckingham, professor ved London University og leder av Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, slår fast at ”mesteparten av teknologien som har blitt innført i skolen, har vært mislykket. Ikke minst troen på at teknologien vil føre til en revolusjon av selve læringen. Det er en tro som er bygget på markedsføringspolitikk.
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  • I september 2000 utga den amerikanske organisasjonen Alliance for Childhood en 100-siders rapport under navnet "Fool’s Gold: A Critical Look at Computers and Childhood". Der ropte 75 amerikanske forskere et kraftig varsku mot teknifiseringen av skolen. Barn er ikke voksne, sa de. Det som er godt for Microsoft, er ikke nødvendigvis godt for barn. Gruppen mente å kunne dokumentere omfattende skadevirkninger ved bruk av IT-basert undervisning for barn i førskole og barneskole: muskel- og synsproblemer, stressreaksjoner, svake sosiale fellesskap, konsentrasjonsvansker, rastløshet, manglende fantasi og empati.
  • I 2004 utga den samme organisasjonen en ny stor rapport: ”Tech Tonic. Towards a New Literacy of Technology.” Også her advares det mot teknifiseringen av skolen.
  • Datamaskinen gir oss tilgang til en overveldende mengde informasjon. Men informasjon er ikke kunnskap. Kunnskap er noe kroppslig, noe vi gjør til vårt eget gjennom konsentrasjon og fordypning. Vi kan ikke tenke med det vi laster ned på skjermen. Vi kan bare tenke med det vi har i hode og sinn, med det vi har lært.
  • Mange lærere forteller at der datamaskinene har gjort sitt massive inntog blir de ofte brukt til mekanisk oppgaveløsning, noe som går på bekostning av samtale, refleksjon og skapende arbeid. Der friere oppgaver gis, er ”klipp og lim” en utbredt sport. Og lærerne må bruke tid til å sjekke plagiering. I klasser der alle har hver sin pc blir det mye ”fjernundervisning”, dvs. kommunikasjon mellom læreren og den enkelte elev på skjermen.
  • Den gode fortelling, den fortrolige samtalen og den engasjerte debatt blir skadelidende fordi skjermen kiler seg mellom ansiktene. Den krever oppmerksomhet – også når den er slått av. For det lokkende ligger bare et tastetrykk unna, og læreren kan ikke alltid kontrollere alt og alle.
  • Vi må ikke la teknologien formatere barndommen. Det er barnas dypeste behov som må bestemme hvilken teknologi vi skal bruke i skolen. Elevene trenger ikke enda mer skjermtid, men mer mennesketid. Mer tid til samvær og samtale. Barn bør i skolen få møte levende mennesker ansikt til ansikt.
  • Jeg frykter det klasserommet der elevene kryper i skjul bak hver sin skjerm, og der de kommuniserer uten ansiktets mimikk og øynenes små signaler. Der fingrene løper over tastaturets glatte brosteiner, på hvileløs jakt etter bokser fylt med underholdning og ferdige svar. Der blikket fanges av former og figurer som stadig endres, og som alltid kan skiftes ut med noe annet. 
  • Digital teknologi er kommet for å bli. Hvordan og hvor mye vi bruker den er imidlertid ikke skjebne, men valg. Valget består ikke mellom å lære gjennom en datamaskin eller ikke å lære. Å si nei til et stadig mer digitalisert og høyteknologisk klasserom er å si ja til en skapende, livsnær og menneskelig skole. Jeg stemmer for det siste. 
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