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jeffery heil

The Three New Pillars of 21st Century Learning | District Administration Magazine - 1 views

  • The textbook, The lecturer and the classroom are three pillars of modern-day schooling that date back hundreds of years.
  • There’s just one catch – these problems don’t exist anymore. In the 21st Century, the Internet has ushered in an online learning environment where information is abundant, teachers are plentiful and learning is global.
  • To put it simply – we need new pillars for learning.
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  • Pillar #1: “I’m only one of my students’ teachers, but I’m the most important because I teach them to connect to all the others.” Implication area: Instruction
  • Pillar #2: “My students should learn from me how to learn without me.” Implication area: Curriculum
  • Pillar #3: “My students’ knowledge lies not only in their minds but in their networks.” Implication area: Assessment
Annie Reyes

Formal and Informal Learning - 0 views

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    Malcolm Knowles is generally considered to be the originator of the term "informal learning" through his book published in 1970: Informal Adult Education: A Guide for Administrators, Leaders, and Teachers. Allen Tough was probably the first to really study how adults use informal learning.
jeffery heil

SpeEdChange: If school isn't for collaborating, why does anyone come? - 0 views

  • If students want to learn in isolation; if they want to sit at a desk and work on their own stuff, occasionally checking in with an "expert," they have no reason to come to school.
  • For years we've talked about (or we may have even been) kids who've only come to school because of team sports, or music groups, or theatre, or even hanging out at lunch.
  • If school isn't about doing things together, just about everyone has better places to spend their day.
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  • The world of work has moved on, but the educational structure, despite the efforts of many individual teachers and administrators, crawls along
  • Bill Gates favorite boy Salman Khan, believe that kids sitting alone, working by themselves, with canned, inflexible data in front of them, is the best preparation for life in the present and future.
  • So here is what your classroom, and your school, needs to offer kids:
  • 1. A learning environment in which students make most decisions.
  • 2. A time environment in which students learn and work along a schedule which makes sense to them
  • 3. A technological environment which supports collaboration across every barrier.
  • 4. A social environment where adults do not rank students according to their oppressive standards.
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    If students want to learn in isolation; if they want to sit at a desk and work on their own stuff, occasionally checking in with an "expert," they have no reason to come to school. They can do a lot better at home, or at their local coffee shop or even the public library, where both the coffee and the WiFi connection will be better.
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