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ELT notes: Teacher Interpreters - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 18 Jul 08 - Cached
  • anonymous on 18 Jul 08
     
    Everything New is Old Again Living and Teaching in Accelerating Times Presenters: Darren Kuropatwa Clarence Fisher http://adifference.blogspot.com/ Preso info http://dkuropatwablc08.pbwiki.com/Everything+New+is+Old+Again
  • anonymous on 18 Jul 08
     
    Claudia notes on a presentation by Kuropatwa abd Fisher at BLC08.
Claudia Ceraso

ELT notes: Some things I am certain of (for now, this is beta, OK?) - 17 views

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shared by Claudia Ceraso on 28 Mar 10 - Cached
  • teaching is worth discussing. Anything else can be found for free on the Internet.
  • Good technology use in the classroom is transparent and intertwined.
  • Motivation is a drug. It is a short-term target.
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  • Better make people "addicted" to learning, to the process, to the autonomy of it. There are intrinsic reasons why this is pleasurable, meaningful and long lasting per se.
  • 7) Mind the use of the word "enhance" when linked to learning. Mind the gap. Old things are just old things.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 28 Mar 10
       
      Note my comment: "This is such a good point! We do not advance from the early airplanes by sticking to using double winged biplanes or 'enhancing' the propeller engine. If a blog is used to 'enhance' the sharing of homework then the point of a blog is missed."
  • 9) Standards are for things that fit a pattern. When educators claim that creativity is a "21st century" essential skill, we need to accept the limitations of striving for standards. Assessment and standards are cousins.
  • Doubt, question and never, ever just assume.
    • Dave Truss
      Dave Truss on 28 Mar 10
       
      This should be a poster to put in classrooms:-)
    • Gabriela Sellart
      Gabriela Sellart on 30 Mar 10
       
      Communicating results is becoming more and more frequent.(#4) Doubting out loud doesn't seem to grant you an "expert" degree, which I notice is the aim of many educators who are blogging. Particularly those who write in Spanish.
    • Claudia Ceraso
      Claudia Ceraso on 31 Mar 10
       
      The poster in the classroom... Interesting. I would change the phrase to "Remember your teacher also expects to learn lots from you". Few teachers are comfortable doubting in front of their students. Perhaps, with reason ;-)
  • Dave Truss on 28 Mar 10
     
    So many quotable quotes in this post! Wonderful 'deep' thinking.
Dave Truss

ELT notes: IWBs and the Fallacy of Integration - 7 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 20 Apr 10 - Cached
  • motivation and control. One seems to need the other, apparently. Keep the students motivated and you are a great teacher in control of the learning process. But we miss the point. Motivation has a short-term effect. New things will be old again. If we equal motivation with learning we will cling too much to it and direct our best efforts (and school budget) to gaining back control. A useless cycle that can lead us to consider extremely double-edged ideas like paying students to keep them learning.
  • We need autonomous, self-motivated students in love with the process of how humanity has learnt.
  • There is a underlying idea in the framing of our questions that needs unlearning. The belief that there are "levels", layers of complexity, hierarchies that we can detect and... well, control. But wait! Isn't that the very old way we want to truly change with new technologies?
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  • We already know it's about shifting power. Tight teacher control is a hindrance to foster empowered students who own their learning paths. We need to be aware of the old way finding its way to surface in what we question.
  • Tech is tech no matter what it does. It's innovative in its nature.
  • We can tell by the huge resistance to it. If there is no resistance in the process, we are probably facing improvements and weighing their gains in efficiency points. Good enough, only it is not an innovation. Innovation is not about "more or better", it's about "different".
  • What is the school picture today? What does my working context look like?I see an illusion that technology is to be bought, taught, used in class and then we can expect everyone to be happy. This false assumption seems to be guiding managerial decisions. This is the same old story behind the idea of technology "integration".
  • I doubt formal courses can make people adopt informal ways of learning. Courses could change teacher behaviour and leave their mindset untouched.
  • students are not digital natives. They know very little about educational uses of the technology they have been using for entertainment purposes only. They are quite ready to resist thoughtful, time consuming uses of the same technology. Particularly if they have had no part in choosing or deciding together with the teacher how we would use it.
  • First things first. Stay out of the tug-of-war. It is not a moment to think if the school is wrong in imposing it and teachers are right in resisting it. It's probably the moment to get together and go ahead purposefully. This is short-term thinking, though. Somehow teachers need to communicate to managers that the buy-don't-ask is an unhealthy approach from now on.
  • Ideally, we should envision a future where authorities engage teachers in conversations before buying.
  • Innovative teaching practices require innovative management practices. Let's think of adoption models that rely on having one-to-one conversations with teachers, experimenting together, asking them how far they feel they need mentoring, identifying what makes teachers happy at work.
  • Dave Truss on 20 Apr 10
     
    We need autonomous, self-motivated students in love with the process of how humanity has learnt.
Dave Truss

ELT notes: Some thoughts on identity -particularly mine - 6 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 08 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 08 Sep 11
     
    Who are we when we are online? Maybe a better question could be, What is it about you that surfaces in an online environment and would not come up anywhere else?
Dave Truss

Blogworthy Tweets - ELT notes - 4 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 18 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Dave Truss on 18 Oct 09
     
    RT @budtheteacher: We can never know the totality of our influence in the world, or what conversations happen in response to our work.
Dave Truss

ELT notes: Why I Write - 4 views

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shared by Dave Truss on 20 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 20 Oct 11
     
    I write because if I left this post for later, you may never see the like of it again. I write and publish to make sure that words will not be marred by my over thinking and prevent me from being faithful to my draft conversation style with you, dear readers, as I do now and today.
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