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Why Kids Need Schools to Change | MindShift - 118 views
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The current structure of the school day is obsolete, most would agree. Created during the Industrial Age, the assembly line system we have in place now has little relevance to what we know kids actually need to thrive
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Yet therein lies the paradox. It’s exactly during these uncertain times when people must be willing to try new things, to be more open, curious and experimental, she said. In education, although there are great new models of learning and schooling, they are the exceptions, and the progressive movement has not gained much momentum.
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“One thing we know for sure is that kids learn better when teachers are invested and paying attention and showing they care,” she said. “The biggest impact you’ll have as a teachers is the relationship you establish with your student.”
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Will Richardson: My Kids are Illiterate. Most Likely, Yours Are Too - 10 views
What's Worth Investing In? How to Decide What Technology You Need | MindShift - 90 views
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Lehmann is famous in progressive education circles for his quote: “Technology must be like oxygen: ubiquitous, necessary, and invisible.” His point: The best technology allows students to explore and create “artifacts of their own learning.”
Everything You Wanted To Know About Grit, But Were Afraid To Ask… | Larry Fer... - 53 views
Moving Forward - 65 views
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So with all of this confusion, many ask why it is hard for people to accept change.
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The problem with this is that people are more comfortable with what they know and have experienced, as opposed to what “could be”. The other issue here is that if we cannot clearly articulate examples of powerful learning, why would anyone buy “change” in the first place?
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It is clear to the world that something just isn’t working with institutional education and most people say that we need to CHANGE institutional education. But to the educators of the world, I am here today to say that I disagree. You don’t need to change anything, you simply need to understand that the world is changing, and if you don’t change with it, the world will decide that it doesn’t need you anymore.
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21st Century Skills: Deeper Learning is Essential Ingredient for Success | LFA: Join Th... - 92 views
Why schools must move beyond 'one-to-one computing' | eSchool News - 114 views
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Adding a digital device to the classroom without a fundamental change in the culture of teaching and learning will not lead to significant improvement.
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“one-to-world.”
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The planning considerations now evolve from questions about technical capacity to a vision of limitless opportunities for learning.
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Why schools must move beyond 'one-to-one computing' | eSchool News - 42 views
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“Horrible, horrible, horrible implementation from every program I visited,” he said. “All of them were about the stuff, with a total lack of vision.” His research convinced him not to move forward with one-to-one computing.
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“Yes. Unfortunately, too often I concur.”
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Unless we break out of this limited vision that one-to-one computing is about the device, we are doomed to waste our resources.
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High School Principal's Posts: Why Technology? - 70 views
More Mindset than Skill Set - 56 views
83 The Bigger You Are, The More You Should Connect - 36 views
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As I think about how big schools and districts can be, we have to less “automation” and more “personalization”. Technology can either dehumanize or humanize; it depends how we use it. The “social” is really the most important part of “social media” and we need to take advantage to not only share what we are learning, but to build connections in new ways.
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If used correctly, that “machinery” can bring us more “humanity” than ever.
Fixed vs. Growth Mindsets - 91 views
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