16 Modern Realities Schools (and Parents) Need to Accept. Now. - Modern Learning - Medium - 0 views
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What’s happened to get people thinking and talking about “different” instead of “better?”
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The Web and the technologies that drive it are fundamentally changing the way we think about how we can learn and become educated in a globally networked and connected world. It has absolutely exploded our ability to learn on our own in ways that schools weren’t built for.
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In that respect, current systems of schooling are an increasingly significant barrier to progress when it comes to learning.
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10+ Tips for Using Brain Based Methods to Redesign Your Classroom | EdSurge News - 0 views
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As adults, we make choices daily. We choose where we eat, where we sit at the table, what we order, how much we eat, what we watch or don’t watch on television, what time we go to bed, and more. As teachers, we want our students to be decisive—but how much choice do we truly allow students to make?
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A good friend of mine often reminds me that we aren’t raising a class of second graders, but in fact, we are raising future adults.
Teachers must ditch 'neuromyth' of learning styles, say scientists | Education | The Gu... - 0 views
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Teaching children according to their individual “learning style” does not achieve better results and should be ditched by schools in favour of evidence-based practice, according to leading scientists.
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They say it is ineffective, a waste of resources and potentially even damaging as it can lead to a fixed approach that could impair pupils’ potential to apply or adapt themselves to different ways of learning.
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How the Ballpoint Pen Changed Handwriting - The Atlantic - 1 views
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I can’t recall the last time I saw students passing actual paper notes in class, but I clearly remember students checking their phones (recently and often).
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Despite the proliferation of handwriting eulogies, it seems that no one is really arguing against the fact that everyone still writes—we just tend to use unjoined print rather than a fluid Palmerian style, and we use it less often.
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My experience with fountain pens suggests a new answer. Perhaps it’s not digital technology that hindered my handwriting, but the technology that I was holding as I put pen to paper. Fountain pens want to connect letters. Ballpoint pens need to be convinced to write, need to be pushed into the paper rather than merely touch it.
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Updating Data-Driven Instruction and the Practice of Teaching | Larry Cuban on School R... - 0 views
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I am talking about data-driven instruction–a way of making teaching less subjective, more objective, less experience-based, more scientific.
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Data-driven instruction, advocates say, is scientific and consistent with how successful businesses have used data for decades to increase their productivity.
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Of course, teachers had always assessed learning informally before state- and district-designed tests. Teachers accumulated information (oops! data) from pop quizzes, class discussions, observing students in pairs and small groups, and individual conferences.
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Differentiation Doesn't Work - Education Week - 0 views
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Let's review the educational cure-alls of past decades: back to basics, the open classroom, whole language, constructivism, and E.D. Hirsch's excruciatingly detailed accounts of what every 1st or 3rd grader should know, to name a few.
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Starting with the gifted-education community in the late 1960s, differentiation didn't get its mojo going until regular educators jumped onto the bandwagon in the 1980s.
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Differentiation is a failure, a farce, and the ultimate educational joke played on countless educators and students.
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Public schools aren't failing | CharlotteObserver.com - 0 views
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In fact, both show that American public school children are doing remarkably well.
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For example, the NCES report shows that in schools with less than 25 percent poverty rates, American children scored higher in reading than any other children in the world. In. The. World.
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The takeaway is simple. Our middle-class and wealthy public school children are thriving. Poor children are struggling, not because their schools are failing but because they come to school with all the well-documented handicaps that poverty imposes – poor prenatal care, developmental delays, hunger, illness, homelessness, emotional and mental illnesses, and so on.
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8 Ways to Level Up Game Based Learning in the Classroom - 0 views
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1. Make Your Whole Class a Game Experience
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2. Engage with Minecraft: Let Kids Build in the Sandbox
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4. Play Games for Social Good: Have a Point, Don’t Just Earn Them
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The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies | Cult of Pedagogy - 1 views
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