The purpose of education - The Learner's Way - 45 views
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Behind the rhetoric and politics, education is about the outcomes it achieves for its learners. More than being about the nuances of technology, learning space design, curriculum structures and pedagogical practices schools should have effective answers to questions that focus on what they hope to achieve for their learners. How we answer this question should then dictate the measures we utilise to achieve these goals and it is to these ends that we must apply our efforts.
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 28 views
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To them, knowledge isn’t a commodity that’s delivered from teacher to student but something that emerges from the students’ own curiosity-fueled exploration.
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eachers provide prompts
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they step aside so students can teach themselves and one another.
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Five U.S. innovations that helped Finland's schools improve but that American reformers... - 64 views
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Pasi Sahlberg Blog Finnish education reform Originally published in Washington Post, 24 July 2014 An intriguing question whether innovation in education can be measured has an answer now. The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in its recent report "Measuring Innovation in Education: A New Perspective, Educational Research and Innovation" measures Innovation in Education in 22 countries and 6 jurisdictions, among them the U.S.
10 of the best apps for education | eSchool News - 227 views
How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Busine... - 54 views
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inland pared the country’s elementary math curriculum from about 25 pages to four, reduced the school day by an hour, and focused on independence and active learning. By 2003, Finnish students had climbed from the lower rungs of international performance rankings to first place among developed nations.
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emphasizing student-led learning and collaboration.
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OPINION: Personalization, Possibilities and Challenges with Learning Analytics | EdSurg... - 34 views
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Many of these challenges result from trying to personalize within the context of traditional school structures that standardize the curriculum, the assessments, the grouping, and the instructional time.
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a genuine problem: how to achieve the tremendous academic gains that are possible through personalized instructional methods within the constraints of a traditional classroom.
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Knowledge mapsFormalizing a learning map--sequences of connected concepts and skills that define how one masters a domain, such as beginning Algebra--and mapping student mastery on the map, enables intelligent learning systems to recommend the next concept or skill to be learned, propose aligned instructional content, and present appropriate questions and tasks to assess mastery.
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Learning Activity Types Web Site - 93 views
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This is a virtual place for interested in learning to "operationalize TPACK" (Technology, Pedagogy, and Content Knowledge) via curriculum-based learning activity types
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Also a helpful way to think about Professional Development options: https://balancedtech.wikispaces.com/PD+Activity+Types
Sending Digital Citizenship Home | graphite Blog - 49 views
SAS® Curriculum Pathways® - 23 views
Curriculet - 46 views
Depth of Knowledge | Rethinking Learning - Barbara Bray - 81 views
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DOK is about... what FOLLOWS the verb. What comes after the verb is more important than the verb itself. the complexity of mental processing that must occur to complete a task. DOK is NOT about... verbs. The verbs are a valuable guide, but they can sometimes be used at more than one level. the difficulty of what they are learning. All levels of DOK have a place in a rigorous curriculum.
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Norman Webb identified four levels for assessing the DOK of content standards and assessment items. Level 1: Recall Level 2: Skill or Concept Level 3: Strategic Thinking Level 4: Extended Thinking
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DOK implies the interaction of how deeply a student needs to understand the content with different ways of responding and interacting with the content.
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50 Ways to Teach With Current Events - NYTimes.com - 49 views
After 12 Years of Teaching Writing…an Epiphany! | Catlin Tucker, Honors Engli... - 66 views
http://www3.barringtonschools.org/casr/Science%20Mapping/Chemistry%20Curriculum%20Augus... - 10 views
Learning and earning: Equipping people to stay ahead of technological change | The Econ... - 34 views
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Today robotics and artificial intelligence call for another education revolution
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working lives are so lengthy and so fast-changing that simply cramming more schooling in at the start is not enough. People must also be able to acquire new skills throughout their careers.
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lifelong learning that exists today mainly benefits high achievers—and is therefore more likely to exacerbate inequality than diminish it.
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