Educational Leadership:Teaching for the 21st Century:What Would Socrates Say? - 0 views
shared by Daryl Bambic on 13 Nov 11
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This argument rests on the premise that we learn best through data collection without the burdens of judgment and discernment.
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Do you agree with this premise? Do you agree that the previous sentence (the argument) is based on this premise?
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The Dumbest Generation
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incessant communication
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does not lead to intellectual growth, but rather to a stunting of genuine intellectual development
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solipsistic,
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Solipsism: means that the only thing we can really know and be sure about is the self. All other knowledge is suspect.
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"being online" can contribute to hyper-individualism and a sense of unearned celebrity,
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ubiquitous
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requires literacy
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Human society has experienced three profound social, economic, and cultural transformations—the agrarian revolution, the Industrial Revolution, and now the electronic revolution.
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we can blend the best of our traditional intellectual linear culture—Socrates' wisdom of the 5th century BCE—with the current digital culture, creating a new learning and intellectual environment consistent with the cognitive and expressive demands of the 21st century.
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Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate.
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Critical reflection enables us to see the world from multiple points of view and imagine alternate outcomes
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Do you agree with his definition of critical thinking? What else might be added to it?
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Thinking empirically is a form of social responsibility
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Do you agree with these two paragraphs that connect empirical reasoning with abandoning the supernatural?
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education has taken on the role of dispensing "cultural capital" to individuals on the basis of a merit system that is a camouflaged proxy for social class and social position.
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What he means is that education is more of a system for making sure the rich stay rich than for actually educating people. The distinctions between classes is more apparent in American society than in Canadian society.
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real basis of teamwork is the willingness to think collectively to solve common problems
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that all knowledge is social.
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When we think about thinking, we turn our mental pictures around ever so slowly to view them from different angles
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multiple frames of reference
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where knowledge creation is fluid, fast, and far more democratic.
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knowledge creation
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Wikipedi
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we will incorporate a whole array of technological options into how, when, and where we learn. We will cease to think of technology as something that has its own identity, but rather as an extension of our minds, in much the same way that books extend our minds without a lot of fanfar
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answers were always steps on the way to deeper questions.
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Current high school dropout rates clearly indicate that our standardized testing regime and outdated curriculums are wasting the potential of our youth
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f we stop thinking of schools as buildings and start thinking of learning as occurring in many different places, we will free ourselves from the conventional education model that still dominates our thinking.
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"personal learning network,"
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Even thoug
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