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Nancy Prentice

» Building and Sharing (When You're Supposed to be Teaching) Journal of Digit... - 0 views

  • The heart of the digital humanities is not the production of knowledge. It’s the reproduction of knowledge.
  • The promise of the digital is not in the way it allows us to ask new questions because of digital tools or because of new methodologies made possible by those tools. The promise is in the way the digital reshapes the representation, sharing, and discussion of knowledge.
  • Classrooms were made for sharing
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  • a short essay by Peter Stallybrass that appeared in the PMLA in 2007. Stallybrass’s article has the provocative title “Against Thinking,” and in it, he argues that we think too much and don’t work enough.
  • Thinking is boring, repetitious, and “indolent” (1583). On the other hand, working is “easy, exciting,” and “a process of discovery” (1583). Working is challenging.
  • a key insight that students and scholars alike need to be reminded of: tortured and laborious thinking does not automatically translate into anything of importance
  • collaborative construction, I mean a collective effort to build something new, in which each student’s contribution works in dialogue with every other student’s contribution
  • They are making it for each other, and, in the best scenarios, for the outside world
  • Creative analysis is the practice of discovering knowledge through the act of creation—through the making of something new
  • I ask the students to do something they find severely discomfiting: creating something new for which no models exist.
  • If I were to say what unites these various forms of building in my classroom, I might use the term “deformance
  • A combination of “performance” and “deform,” deformance is an interpretative concept premised upon deliberately misreading a text
  • As my students build—both collaboratively and creatively—they are also reshaping, and that very reshaping is an interpretative process. It is not writing, or at least not only writing. And it is certainly not only thinking. It is work, it has an audience, and it is something my students never expected.
Nancy Prentice

The Harsh Reality of the Classroom of the Future - Edudemic - 0 views

  • the classroom of the future: picture huge, multipurpose spaces that allow for seminar areas, group work using a projector for feeding back to others, private work areas and an area for IT use. How many schools do you know that have classrooms with this amount of space?
  • by utilizing technology in the right way, the dynamics of the classroom could be radically changed for the better
  • I see what they see – I see if what I’m showing them looks worthwhile, if it’s presented in an engaging way, if it’s even legible. All of these things matter, but when we’re at the front, we don’t remember that they matter.
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  • simply try sitting amongst your students; it changes everything
  • Anytime, anywhere learning isn’t just about students going off and learning in their own time, it’s about finding ways of making the classroom a more dynamic space
Nancy Prentice

What Is The Role Of Content In Flipped Classrooms? - Edudemic - 0 views

  • It is not about having fun while learning something; it is about being engaged while learning it.
  • Interactive content is not necessarily inquiry-promoting content — boasting several animations and interactive buttons for the user to click-and-explore does not mean that it is able to get students thinking deeply and posing questions to seek clarification for understanding, or to apply what is taught (in that piece of content) in new situations
  • Put simply and in the context of the flipped classroom, simply forcing students to view a lesson at home before a lesson in class, or rewarding those who do, just won’t work. Having the lesson fronted by a teacher who inspires the students may work for a while but may not be sustainable in the long term.
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  • The benefits of a flipped classroom are progressively recognized and relatively well-documented (Fulton, 2012; Bergmann & Sams, 2013; Bergmann 2011; Ash, 2012). In its ideal state, a flipped classroom can transform the learning experience of students. But this also means that students will need to commit close to two times the amount of time in official lessons for any given topic: once inside the classroom (lesson) and another at home watching the lesson presentation.
Nancy Prentice

Stop The False Generalizations About Personalized Learning - Education Next : Education... - 0 views

  • Today’s factory-model education system, which was built to standardize the way we teach, falls short in educating successfully each child for the simple reason that just because two children are the same age, it does not mean they learn at the same pace or should follow the same pathway
  • what no one disputes is that each student learns at a different pace
  • everyone has a different aptitude—or what cognitive scientists refer to as “working memory” capacity, meaning the ability to absorb and work actively with a given amount of information from a variety of sources, including visual and auditory
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  • everyone has different levels of background knowledge—or what cognitive scientists refer to as “long-term memory.” What this means is that people bring different experiences or prior knowledge into any learning experience, which impacts how they will learn a concept.
  • targeting learning just above a student’s level such that it is not too easy or hard is critical to helping students be successful
  • the logic of personalizing learning and moving away from the current system that mandates the amount of time students spend in class, but does not expect each child to master learning.
  • today students do not in fact learn or master a common body of knowledge and skills at approximately the same time; they are merely taught them—which is far different from truly learning them.
  • Learning some things in common—of course not all things, but a strong foundation—is important
  • evidence seems to suggest that the achievement gap is exacerbated in the factory-model system when a student does not master a concept, develops holes in her learning, and the teacher just moves on to the next concept the next day.
  • when we move to a competency-based learning system concerned with rigor—in which students move on to new concepts only upon mastery (and there exists the notion of a minimum pace so students who are falling behind get more attention and gaps don’t grow too big)—
  • There are lots of notions and differing definitions of what personalized learning is, but when I, and many other disruptors use the phrase, we mean learning that is tailored to an individual student’s particular needs—in other words, it is customized or individualized to help each individual succeed.
  • Benjamin Bloom’s classic “2 Sigma Problem” study
  • by the end of three weeks, the average student under tutoring was about two standard deviations above the average of the control class.
  • The problem is that having a human tutor for each student is prohibitively expensive
  • blended learning is that we can gain the benefits of mass customization—many of the effects of a personal tutor in other words—without the costs.
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