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Sean Nash

Faculty Meetings are Fun! | An Ethical Island - 0 views

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  • Sean Nash on 20 Jul 14
     
    Some decent ideas here. Could be a good reminder lens to run through when first formulating a strategy for any professional learning session...
Sean Nash

Six Ways To Motivate Students To Learn | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Start with the question, not the answer.
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 04 Sep 13
       
      Questions... the initial key to student inquiry.
  • Some learning tasks, like memorizing the multiplication table or a list of names or facts, are simply not interesting in themselves.
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 04 Sep 13
       
      True. This is why gamification of such tasks is beneficial whenever possible.
  • Connect abstract learning to concrete situations.
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 04 Sep 13
       
      I think this is important. However, this is also an element teachers have difficulty with. I wish this one was fleshed out more. This is a worthy topic of study.
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  • Make it social. Put together a learning group, or have students find learning partners with whom they can share their moments of discovery and points of confusion. Divide the learning task into parts, and take turns being teacher and pupil. The simple act of explaining what they’re learning out loud will help them understand and remember it better.
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 04 Sep 13
       
      YES. Learning is interaction. And when this interaction is done with wise adults shepherding the way...  good things happen.
  • Go deep. Almost any subject is interesting once you get inside it. Assign the task of becoming the world’s expert on one small aspect of the material they have to learn—then extend their new expertise outward by exploring how the piece they know so well connects to all the other pieces they need to know about.
    • Sean Nash
      Sean Nash on 04 Sep 13
       
      Collaboration for "collaboration's sake" doesn't usually go far... and does a lot for poo-pooing the importance of collaborative modes of learning. These are a solid handful of strategies to begin work with.
Sean Nash

Avoiding "Unmitigated Disasters" - nashworld - 0 views

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  • Sean Nash on 29 Nov 13
     
    "After stumbling upon the article, "Switch to e-books was 'an unmitigated disaster,' says school principal," in my feed this past week, it occurred to me that there are increasingly predictable patterns surrounding stories of failed "innovation" in digital learning initiatives. Schools have been assigning computers to each child for some time now. And still, we continue to see stories like this in the media. In short: we can do better than this."
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