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aniazielinska

Change by Decree - 0 views

  • Everyone is opposed to making educators implement lousy ideas
  • quality of an idea doesn’t justify an attempt to shove it down people’s throats.
  • he idea will eventually just be, um, coughed back up.
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  • Many of us have been appalled by the behaviorist, corporate-styled policies known collectively as “school reform.
  • hose writings, in fact, eloquently explain the importance of having students construct ideas
  • They’re still orders.
  • In the end, policy makers and consultants cannot change what goes on in classrooms
  • All they can do is invite teachers to change what they do in classrooms.
  • Good teaching can't be imposed from above because it "doesn't rest on specific practices but on how well the educator actively thinks through hundreds of decisions that no program can script
  • “What do you need?  How can we help?”
  • Your job then is to be a buffer, protecting those who report to you from its worst effects rather than robotically implementing and enforcing what doesn’t make sense. 
  • It’s not just about “getting buy-in” for your pet idea
  • because the focus is on strategies for deflecting resistance.
  • respectful and collaborative,
  • something closer to democratic decision-making from the beginning.
  • “People don’t resist change.  They resist being changed.”
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    excellent article from Alfie Kohn 
Andrea Walker

Envisioning the 21st-Century Campus - 2 views

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      What is the attitude of students to using their iPhone as an academic too as opposed to social
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      News consumption has gone digital/technology allows stories to be circulated by email, text message and RSS feed and include audio and video content
  • All different types of media can come together and produce something that's richer than any single channel can do on its own.
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  • tools like iTunes U, the iPod, and the iPhone can help students and faculty discover new ways of traveling together.
aniazielinska

Data and Analysis of a High School 1:1 iPad Program. | - 0 views

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    The Westlake Initiative for Innovation (WIFI) project launched in August of 2011 in the Eanes Independent School District.  The objectives - create a culture of digital and global learning,  increase the relevance of education in real-world scenarios, and allow for a more individualized, flexible and differentiated learning via 1:1 iPads for every Junior and Senior level student.
Andrea Walker

Convergence and the 21st-Century Classroom - 1 views

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      Important to embrace & nurture 21C classroom trends & web 2.0 with communication and convergence - converged mobile devices like the iPhone are uniquely suited to this purpose, offering multiple communication technologies - phone, voicemail, email, multi-session chat - while also bringing together an unprecedented level of media and information access - audio, video, photography, and the web.
aniazielinska

Education 3.0 and the Pedagogy (Andragogy, Heutagogy) of Mobile Learning | User Generat... - 1 views

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    Some very interesting terms, definitions and thought provoking discussions for us to think about. Is 3.0 the aim of RCHK Tech Vision 2014?
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    Interesting, however, a number of the key "differences" shown in the table seem a bit contrived. The description of 1.0, and moreso 2.0, seem to be intentionally antiquated and negative. In reality, education is of course changing, thankfully, regardless of what type of numerical moniker is assigned.
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