My students learn about writing mostly as they are writing. They learn very little from a failing grade, except that they can’t write.
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Teaching Writing with Google Docs - 0 views
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Because I have access to their documents so early, I learn much more about my students’ writing and the issues that they need to overcome. This positions me for better teaching. It positions the students for better learning. That’s a win-win.
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Revision History feature, GDocs tracks and preserves all edits to a document
Why Has Technology Failed To Substantially Improve Student Achievement? -- THE Journal - 1 views
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if K-12 wants discontinuous, substantive improvement in student achievement, then it needs to change its pedagogical practices to better exploit the affordances of the computer
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"Business realized that simply putting an existing paper-and-pencil process on a computer would produce modest or incremental gains,"
Nine Things Educators Need to Know About the Brain - 0 views
What I'm Writing: February 2016 | Matt Renwick - 0 views
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Critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration can all happen in the absence of the digital element. It is when we recognize through our instructional preparations that a real need for these technology tools becomes necessary, instead of merely nice.
Building an effective learning environment | Tony Bates - 0 views
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The learners must do the learning. We need to make sure that learners are able to work within an environment that helps them do this. In other words, our job as teachers is to create the conditions for success.
Blended Learning in Private Schools: An Interview with Mark Engstrom - ISM - 0 views
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There’s always going to be a demand for an adult to be leading child instruction. They’re needed for the feedback piece, or the compassion piece, or the guidance piece. Besides, parents will want that; they feel most comfortable with that.
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The program has to be mission-driven.
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Right now, we’re in a murky, gray area when it comes to blended learning. In 20 years, we’ll have some tried and true methods. Right now, it’s just messy. And schools have to be okay with messy, with not smooth.
The right conditions for creativity - The Learner's Way - 0 views
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Our students need to be given permission to be creative, to experiment and play with ideas.
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linked to permission is acceptance of failure
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A third condition for creativity is time and it is this that is perhaps most difficult for schools to provide
Adaptive learning software is replacing textbooks and upending American education. Should we welcome it? - 0 views
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“Adaptive technologies presume that knowledge can be modularized and sequenced,” says Watters, the education writer. “This isn’t about the construction of knowledge. It’s still hierarchical, top-down, goal-driven.”
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e latest techno-fad, destined to distract administrators and upset curricula for a few years until the next one comes along. But there are two reasons why adaptive learning might prove more durable than that. The first is that the textbook companies have invested in it so heavily that there may be no going back. The second: It might, in at least some settings, really work.
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“I like to think of analogies to other places where science and technology have had an impact, like transportation. We went from walking to horse-drawn carriages to Model Ts, and now we have jet planes. So far in educational technology, we’re in the Model T stage.”
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How To Design A 21st Century Assessment - - 0 views
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Action Step 1: Stop thinking technology first.
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Action Step 2: Give students authentic choice in how they will demonstrate their learning.
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Action Step 3: Help students seek feedback from other students, other educators, and experts in the field.
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7 Skills Students Will Always Need - TeachThought - 0 views
Creating the Future - 0 views
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When will education embrace as an institution that change is the only constant in our world, and constant flexibility and adaptation are what will be needed from our organizations, educators, and students?
From Traditional Teacher to "Modern Learning Advisor" - Modern Learners - 0 views
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From a content and skills standpoint, why wouldn’t we expect teachers to connect their students to the smartest, most experienced experts they can find online?
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But it is not either/or approach. It’s NOT either the traditional approach or the modern approach. There is room for both approaches, particularly there will still be a need for the design and management of essential (e.g. compliance, and regulatory) training.
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If nothing else, we should be thinking and talking about this, about how the new realities of the world require different thinking and doing and defining, especially in the context of the roles the adults play in the classroom.
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