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Dave Truss

Gary Stager: Wanna be a School Reformer? You Better do Your Homework! - 8 views

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readinglist LOOKintothis books Garystager

shared by Dave Truss on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Dave Truss on 20 Oct 10
     
    I challenged myself to assemble an essential (admittedly subjective) reading list on school reform. The following books are appropriate for parents, teachers, administrators, politicians and plain old citizens committed to the ideal of sustaining a joyful, excellent and democratic public education for every child.
Dean Mantz

Tech Learning TL Advisor Blog and Ed Tech Ticker Blogs from TL Blog Staff - TechLearnin... - 4 views

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iwb smartboard learning GaryStager blog technology smartboards teaching education

shared by Dean Mantz on 24 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Dean Mantz on 24 Feb 11
     
    Very interesting thoughts regarding the implementation and usage of IWBs.
Dave Truss

Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote : Stager-to-Go - 0 views

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Garystager newliteracy digitalclassroom

shared by Dave Truss on 01 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Much of what is called virtual education is really just bad teaching done on the cheap. Most of what I have seen offered as online courses for students doesn’t rise to the level of a mail-order correspondence course. There may be no lectures, but there is no deep learning to be found either. Teachers don’t know their students and the pedagogical emphasis is on product over process.
  • Don’t tell me that online education delivers individualization. The concept of delivery is itself the enemy of learning. Individualization is not customizing the pace of the multiple choice tests, but knowing the
  • strive to create learner-centered, project-based, collaborative, non-coercive environments in which students learn through a community of practice
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  • decentralize knowledge
  • Our network policies treat teachers and children as either imbeciles or felons. How many of you are unable to use your classroom computers in educationally sound ways because of a network policy created without your input? We install iPod labs so that children can be marched down the hall once a week for iPod lessons. We chain laptop computers to desks and don’t allow children to take them home. That’s the point of a laptop. You cannot blame such stupidity on four walls of brick and mortar. The blame lies within the bankruptcy of our imaginations.
  • Dave Truss on 01 Jul 09
     
    Much of what is called virtual education is really just bad teaching done on the cheap. Most of what I have seen offered as online courses for students doesn't rise to the level of a mail-order correspondence course. There may be no lectures, but there is no deep learning to be found either. Teachers don't know their students and the pedagogical emphasis is on product over process.
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