"This year Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in the UK, has been awarded $1 million in seed-funding for his wish to design the future of learning by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and work together. He hopes to build a School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can embark on intellectual adventures by engaging and connecting with information and mentoring online."
"Two principles guide this article:
1. Social-Emotional skills and strategies should be addressed and taught in school settings.
2. Video and online games can promote SEL skills and as such, should be integrated into classroom instruction."
My presentation for the ECIS IT conference, London March 2013
Recipe to flatten your classroom - 3 essential ingredients:
1. Connection
2. Citizenship, with a dash of global competency
3. Collaboration, the sort that includes co-creation
4 Traditional Theories Of Learning
Of the published research and science, three of the more popular theories in the last fifty years are behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism. The infographic below reviews the pros and cons of each approach while making a case for connectivism as a response to the age of the internet and information.
1. Behaviorism: learning is a process of reacting to external stimuli
2. Cognitivism: learning is a process of acquiring and storing information
3. Constructivism: meaning is continuously "constructed" through experience and reflection
4. Connectivism: learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes
I love how David Truss has set this out so clearly and shares 7 Ways to Transform Your Classroom
1. Inquiry
2. Voice
3. Audience
4. Community
5. Leadership
6. Play
7. Networks
1 per term, 2 per year. Teachers create a course out of there favorite unit. Syndication on iTunes U facilitated by Lindsay but creation of resource on Spot/SpotX up to teacher and students. THINKbuds pulls from Spot/X onto own platform and gets directed to by iTunes U. Public commentary enabled for 2-way dynamic.
Yes, this is a start, but we need to go a lot further than this. As discussed at our meeting today, the real learnign takes place when classrooms build a 'project' or collabroation and include the shared the content AND then co-create something meaningful together.