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shared by Tero Toivanen on 24 Feb 10 - Cached

What I want are master learners, not master teachers, learners who see my kids as their apprentices for learning.
- Tero Toivanen on 24 Feb 10
  
  This is what teachers should be!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is what teachers should be!</div>
  
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My sense is that we need to rethink the role of those adults once again, and that we’re coming full circle.
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social and technological networks subvert the classroom-based role of the teacher.
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When learners have control of the tools of conversation, they also control the conversations in which they choose to engage.
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instead of controlling a classroom, a teacher now influences or shapes a network.
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Apprenticeship learning models are among the most effective in attending to the full breadth of learning. Apprenticeship is concerned with more than cognition and knowledge (to know about) – it also addresses the process of becoming a carpenter, plumber, or physician.
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We can’t teach kids to learn unless we are learners ourselves, and our understanding of learning has to encompass the rich, passion-based interactions that take place in these social learning spaces online.
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shared by Tero Toivanen on 22 Dec 09 - Cached

I’m in the midst of a great book by Allan Collins and Richard Halverson titled Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology, and they spend about 20 pages writing about why the system is so resistant to change. The bottom line, they say, is that “teaching is an inevitably conservative practice.” When embedded in institutions that protect instruction from systemic change, a conservative practice is reinforced by a conserving institution. It is difficult for teachers to implement substantially changed programs when they already have dedicated years adapting to what the traditional system of school offers (36).
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