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Sharon Elin

Shaking Up the Classroom - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    "...competency-based learning,... is based on the idea that students learn at their own pace and should earn credits and advance after they master the material-not just because they have spent a year in a certain class."
Sharon Elin

Innovating Pedagogy 2014 | Open University Innovations Report #3 - 3 views

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    "ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education.  "
Sharon Elin

"If We Didn't Have Today's Schools, Would We Create Today's Schools?" - 0 views

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      Sharon Elin on 15 May 09
       
      This analogy of equipping sailing vessels with steam engines works well as an illustration of technology being plugged into traditional classrooms.
  • We need to get the teacher into the game. The teacher needs to get in there and be part of the learning process, actively engaged in solving the problem with the students and learning with the students—not teaching but modeling learning with the students by functioning as an expert learner solving problems and constructing new knowledge with the students.
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  • Any organization that adopts a new technology without significant organizational change is doomed to failure. You have to change the organization. You cannot just add the technology. You have to actively work on changing the roles of the teachers, the roles of the students, the roles of the parents, and the roles of the administrators, and start to work toward building new relationships and new structures
  • we will get the same result if we introduce modern learning technologies in our schools but do not prepare teachers to work in this new learning environment.   If we want to take advantage of these new technologies and the billions we are investing in equipment for our schools, we have to prepare teachers very differently than we have in the past. We have to change our own model of teaching and instruction in higher education.
  • Trying to introduce new technologies into schools without these changes would be similar to efforts in the sailing industry during the 1800s, when steam engines were installed in wooden sailing ships.
  • We will not get out of our wooden ship schools until we use communication technologies for two-way interactivity that allows us to collaboratively construct the learning experience and new knowledge.
  • Sharon Elin on 15 May 09
     
    CITE Journal Article
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School superintendent to Governor: Please make my school a prison - 2 views

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    "The State of Michigan spends annually somewhere between $30,000 and $40,000 per prisoner, yet we are struggling to provide schools with $7,000 per student."
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