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Nancy Marks

Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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    "Diana Laufenberg shares 3 surprising things she has learned about teaching -- including a key insight about learning from mistakes."
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    TED talk about what can happen with learning... and failure in learning
Rob Reynolds

: In Praise of Risk-Taking - 0 views

shared by Rob Reynolds on 02 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Somehow we keep confusing technology use in the classroom with negative outcomes rather than seeing and understanding the exponential expansion of learning possibilities and the positive advantages our student will have in navigating the world of new jobs still unknown to us because of their familiarity with technology.
    • Rob Reynolds
       
      This fear factor reasoning not only denies students access to the tools that will aid their learning, but it it also sets them up for troubles and potential failure in that they don't learn cyber responsibility in a guided way, but are left to the very "wolves" we think we are protecting them from.  "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil"  that's our current motto in education.
  • Errors of omission consist of not doing something that should have been done.
  • Of these, errors of omission are usually the most costly because it is harder to correct a missed opportunity than to correct something that has been done.
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  • Thus, those who want to avoid errors in an organization that define mistakes as a bad – if not punishable – thing find that to maximize their job security they should do as little as possible.” (Ackoff & Greenberg, p.7575)
  • There are and should be no more excuses, just swiftly planned action to put technology in the hands of every student for use whenever there is a need.
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