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There's no app for good teaching | ideas.ted.com - 0 views

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  • Keep learning goals ahead of the technology.
  • What’s the pedagogical goal?
  • “We’re trying to help learners parse and make sense of the world.”
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  • Use technology to nudge students away from looking for confirmation for what they already know. Instead, challenge them — encourage risk and confusion that can’t be solved with a few clicks
  • Opt for the open-ended.
  • suggests using technology as a starting point, a way to introduce new experiences and modes of expressions.
  • Let kids get comfortable with the messiness of life and learning.
  • Don’t let tech make learning easy.
  • Keep learning challenging, but not impossible. Look for technology that uses questions to foster curiosity and the joy of discovery.
  • When a caring adult — a teacher, mentor, or parent — also shares that interest and is able to demonstrate that the skills they’re developing are relevant to the adult world or school, that’s a profound transformation for kids.”
  • Take feedback seriously.
  • “What’s the conceptual mistake that someone made to get that common wrong answer? The students’ next step is to write the message to kids who actually make this error going forward.
  • Brainology and Math 180
  • Stay skeptical of individualized learning — for now.
  • a culture that values failure and where confusion doesn’t mean you’re stupid.”
  • Bring in student interests, authentically.
  • look to “connect with kids’ interest-driven practices through sites and educational technology that are authentically tied to classroom learning.”
  • Pedagogy and content, Mishra says, can’t be considered independently of each other; the same goes for tech and content.
  • Start conversations.
  • Look for technology that supports social interaction
  • Make it open, make it better.
  • There’s a movement online for teachers to share content, lesson plans and professional development. Known as open educational resources (OERs), these online materials are freely and openly available.
  • We’ve found that teachers see BLOSSOMS’ lessons both as a content resource and as professional development.
anonymous

Common Core - News | 21st Century Skills: An Old Familiar Song - 2 views

www.commoncore.org/pressrelease-05.php

21st_Century education

shared by anonymous on 20 Jun 10 - Cached
  • The latest fad to sweep the wonderful world of pedagogy is called 21st Century Skills
  • In the land of American pedagogy, innovation is frequently confused with progress, and whatever is thought to be new is always embraced more readily than what is known to be true.
  • old-fashioned or traditional, these terms being the worst sort of opprobrium that can be hurled at any educator.
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  • "it is no longer important what bits of information a student knows, but only that students be able to locate information" in the new 21st Century model...
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      I have never thought content knowledge was unimportant. I have just wanted it applied and therefore retained through some relevant application.
  • Unfortunately the field of pedagogy is subject to frequent bouts of infatuation with fads and of lemming-like behavior in adopting the latest fad as holy writ.
  • Jones wanted black children to "learn to do by doing," which was considered to be the modern, scientific approach to education.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      So if I want content knowledge to be relevant to students, I am racist?
  • their children couldn't read but spent an entire day baking nut bread
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Who is advocating this?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      I have seen instances where teachers interpreted real world connections similarly. I think it requires conversation and leadership.
  • another stab at getting rid of subject matter
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Again...Who is advocating this?
  • This deeply ingrained suspicion - hostility, even - towards subject matter is the single most significant reason for the failure of the standards movement in American education over the past generation.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Show me an educator who wants a war against content knowledge...Please!
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      Well said!
  • determine ways to light up young minds and to generate excitement about historical imagination or scientific discovery.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      WOW! All of the staff development I have taken has been for the sole purpose of disengaging the student. Excitement over learnning stuff - what a waste of time!
  • We have neglected to teach them that one cannot think critically unless one has quite a lot of knowledge to think about.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      So the critical thinking comes only after you have the content knowledge? Who decides when one has the requisite knowledge? Graduate studies advisors? Doctoral thesis committees?
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 21 Jun 10
       
      Isn't the whole consume, critique, and produce model refuting this argument?
  • Until we teach our teachers and our students to love knowledge and to love learning, we cannot expect them to use their minds well.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      I thought the goal was to teach the love of learning through interesting and relevant means ALONG with the content.
  • Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
     
    Thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century Skills movement - Diane Ravitch
  • anonymous on 21 Jun 10
     
    Thoughts on the fadism of the 21st Century Skills movement - Diane Ravitch
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