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Aaron Davis

THINKING TOOLS - 0 views

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  • Aaron Davis on 19 Feb 14
     
    Using thinking tools is one way to "make thinking visible" and help our students explain their thoughts in a simple and explicit way. As the team from Project Zero themselves say "Visible Thinking includes a large number of classroom routines, easily and flexibly integrated with content learning, and representing areas of thinking such as understanding, truth and evidence, fairness and moral reasoning, creativity, self-management, and decision making. It also provides tools for integrating the arts with subject-matter content. Finally, it includes a practical framework for how to create "cultures of thinking" in individual classrooms and within an entire school."
Aaron Davis

Design Thinking: Synthesis 1 | Hexagonal Thinking \ The Lab - 0 views

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Questioning Resource thinking Design Thinking

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  • Aaron Davis on 16 Feb 15
     
    A great activity for synthesising ideas
Aaron Davis

New Thinking Routines | It's About Learning - 0 views

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thinking routines visible thinking project zero

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  • The 3 Ys Why might this [topic, question] matter to me? Why might it matter to people around me [family, friends, city, nation]? Why might it matter to the world?
  • What are its parts? What are its various pieces or components? What are its purposes? What are the purposes for each of these parts? What are its complexities? How is it complicated in its parts and purposes, the relationship between the two, or in other ways.
Aaron Davis

Doing It Differently: Tips for Teaching Vocabulary | Edutopia - 0 views

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vocabulary teaching Marzano

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  • Aaron Davis on 02 Feb 16
     
    "We think with words, therefore to improve thinking, teach vocabulary. -- A. Draper and G. Moeller "
Aaron Davis

ELMORE LEONARD ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hoopt... - 0 views

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writing how to english literacy

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  • Aaron Davis on 28 Nov 13
     
    An interesting collection of tips associated with the art of writing from Elmore Leonard. Definitely gets you thinking. 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than ''said'' to carry dialogue. 4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb ''said'' . . . 5. Keep your exclamation points under control. 6. Never use the words ''suddenly'' or ''all hell broke loose.'' 7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly. 8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters. 9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things. 10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. 11. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
  • Aaron Davis on 28 Nov 13
     
    An interesting collection of tips associated with the art of writing from Elmore Leonard: 1. Never open a book with weather. 2. Avoid prologues. 3. Never use a verb other than ''said'' to carry dialogue. 4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb ''said'' . . . 5. Keep your exclamation points under control. 6. Never use the words ''suddenly'' or ''all hell broke loose.'' 7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly. 8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters. 9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things. 10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. 11. If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
Aaron Davis

What If? | Steve Mouldey - 0 views

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Questioning Resource thinking Design Thinking

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  • Whilst others may be more specific to what we have been learning about at the time or are linked to what we are going to learn about: What if you designed a robot to help someone in our community? What if the Moon landing was fake? What if you lived in an ideal world? What if all people lived forever? What if there were only humans left on Earth? What if chocolate cost $100 a bar? What if $ had never been invented?
Aaron Davis

The perils of “Growth Mindset” education: Why we’re trying to fix our... - 0 views

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  • By now, the growth mindset has approached the status of a cultural meme.
  • Regardless of their track record, kids tend to do better in the future if they believe that how well they did in the past was primarily a result of effort.But “how well they did” at what?
  • even some people who are educators would rather convince students they need to adopt a more positive attitude than address the quality of the curriculum (what the students are being taught) or the pedagogy (how they’re being taught it).
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  • An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they’re doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they’re brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects.
  • the most salient feature of a positive judgment is not that it’s positive but that it’s a judgment; i
  • the first problem with this seductively simple script change is that praising children for their effort carries problems of its own, as several studies have confirmed: It can communicate that they’re really not very capable and therefore unlikely to succeed at future tasks. (“If you’re complimenting me just for trying hard, I must really be a loser.”)
  • what’s really problematic is praise itself. It’s a verbal reward, an extrinsic inducement, and, like other rewards, is often construed by the recipient as manipulation.
  • books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students’ learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests).
  • the series of Dweck’s studies on which she still relies to support the idea of praising effort, which she conducted with Claudia Mueller in the 1990s, included no condition in which students received nonevaluative feedback. Other researchers have found that just such a response — information about how they’ve done without a judgment attached — is preferable to any sort of praise.
  • We need to attend to deeper differences: between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and between “doing to” and “working with” strategies.
  • Dweck’s work nestles comfortably in a long self-help tradition, the American can-do, just-adopt-a-positive-attitude spirit.(“I think I can, I think I can…”) The message of that tradition has always been to adjust yourself to conditions as you find them because those conditions are immutable; all you can do is decide on the spirit in which to approach them. Ironically, the more we occupy ourselves with getting kids to attribute outcomes to their own effort, the more we communicate that the conditions they face are, well, fixed.
  • It isn’t entirely coincidental that someone who is basically telling us that attitudes matter more than structures, or that persistence is a good in itself, has also bought into a conservative social critique. But why have so many educators who don’t share that sensibility endorsed a focus on mindset (or grit) whose premises and implications they’d likely find troubling on reflection?
  • the real alternative to that isn’t a different attitude about oneself; it’s a willingness to go beyond individual attitudes, to realize that no mindset is a magic elixir that can dissolve the toxicity of structural arrangements. Until those arrangements have been changed, mindset will get you only so far. And too much focus on mindset discourages us from making such changes.
  • Aaron Davis on 11 Feb 16
     
    "An awful lot of schooling still consists of making kids cram forgettable facts into short-term memory. And the kids themselves are seldom consulted about what they're doing, even though genuine excitement about (and proficiency at) learning rises when they're brought into the process, invited to search for answers to their own questions and to engage in extended projects. Outstanding classrooms and schools - with a rich documentary record of their successes - show that the quality of education itself can be improved. But books, articles, TED talks, and teacher-training sessions devoted to the wonders of adopting a growth mindset rarely bother to ask whether the curriculum is meaningful, whether the pedagogy is thoughtful, or whether the assessment of students' learning is authentic (as opposed to defining success merely as higher scores on dreadful standardized tests). "
Aaron Davis

How do inquiry teachers….teach? | Justwondering - 0 views

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  • The planning and the teaching are certainly deeply connected but – too often, inquiry seems almost synonymous with ‘units’.   The cringe-worthy phrase “we do inquiry” usually means: we fill in an inquiry planner using a cycle/framework of inquiry
  • Inquiry is not just about knowing how to plan – it’s about how we teach
  • 1. They talk less
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  •  2. They ask more.
  •  3. They relate
  • 4. They let kids in on the secret
  • 5. They use language that is invitational and acknowledges the elasticity of ideas.
  •  6. They check in with their kids – a lot
  • They remain open to possibility…
  •  7. They collaborate with their students. They trust them!
  •  8. They use great, challenging, authentic resources
  •  9. They are passionate and energetic.
  •  10. They see the bigger picture
  • 11. They invite, celebrate and USE questions, wonderings, uncertainties and tensions that arise from their students.
  • Good inquiry teachers know how to get more kids thinking more deeply more of the time.
  • Programs and planners don’t make inquiry happen. Teachers and learners do.
  • Aaron Davis on 22 Feb 14
     
    A great post from Kath Murdoch in which she outlines how inquiry teacher teach. What I really liked about it is that even if you don't 'do inquiry' you can still take some of the facets of an inquiry teacher.
Aaron Davis

What is music theory? - Hybrid Pedagogy - 0 views

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  • There is no one way to make music, and there certainly isn’t one theory about how to make and understand music.
  • theories are generally descriptive representations of a style, not prescriptive principles to guide creative compositional work.
  • a musical theory is a simplified, expedient, and usually preliminary step in intertextual analysis.
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  • my personal goal for the core curriculum is to help students think critically and in detail about music, and to communicate clearly and persuasively about music.
  • Aaron Davis on 02 Mar 14
     
    An interesting investigation into music theory. More related to tertiary music, but still a good read.
Aaron Davis

Election 2013: The Newspapers - 0 views

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Critical Thinking election newspaper media media studies issues English literacy visual literacy

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  • Aaron Davis on 29 Nov 13
     
    A great overview of the front pages of the different newspapers associated with the 2013 Australian Election. Amazing to look back at them all in one big collection.
  • Aaron Davis on 29 Nov 13
     
    A great overview of the front pages of the different newspapers associated with the 2013 Australian Election. Amazing to look back at them all in one big collection.
Manisha Saini

Read Write and Think - 5 views

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Literacy F 1 2

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  • Manisha Saini on 07 Nov 13
     
    Engaging ways to introduce children to reading or to encourage them to write. Provides age-appropriate book suggestions and rainy day activities. The site is fun, educational, and easy to use.
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