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Will · Learners not Knowers - 0 views

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  • But I am saying my kids don’t (won’t) need teachers any more to get them to pass the test.
  • If nothing else, the new iPhone’s integration of Siri is a clear indicator of how far technology has come in terms of understanding semantic cues and interactions.
  • If it’s all about test scores and “student acheivement” measured by test scores, immersing kids into Knewton-type environments is by far the easiest, cheapest, path of least resistance for the system’s current definition of “learning.”
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  • This is why we should all be feeling an acute urgency right now to take back the definition of what “learning” really is in a world filled with content and teachers and personalization.
  • Knewton doesn’t develop learners. It develops knowers.
  • We’re in serious trouble if that’s all we value.
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APS RDA Math Performance Task Bank - 0 views

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    Math performance tasks
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On Climate Change and Applied Hope | Center for Ecoliteracy - 0 views

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  • Sherilyn Crawford on 19 Oct 11
     
    Interesting how it ties in to my blog post and parallels issues in education as well
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Language Castle Blog » Blog Archive » Have You Seen "Driveby Teaching"? It's ... - 0 views

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  • “Driveby teaching” happens when teachers talk while moving around the room without taking the time to see that the children make the right connections with the words being used.
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Christina's Creative Writing Cookbook - 0 views

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    well, it's a start...
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SpeEdChange: If school isn't for collaborating, why does anyone come? - 0 views

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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.
  • 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.
  • jeffery heil on 16 Oct 11
     
    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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