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Why Flip The Classroom When We Can Make It Do Cartwheels? | Co.Exist: World changing id... - 4 views

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Cathy Davidson flipped classroom elearning Education 2.0

shared by Keith Hamon on 13 May 12 - No Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 13 May 12
     
    In some ways, the flipped model is an improvement. Research shows that tailored tutoring is more effective than lectures for understanding, mastery, and retention. But the flipped classroom doesn't come close to preparing students for the challenges of today's world and workforce. As progressive educational activist Alfie Kohn notes, great teaching isn't just about content but motivation and empowerment: Real learning gives you the mental habits, practice, and confidence to know that, in a crisis, you can count on yourself to learn something new. That's crucial in a world where, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Statistics, adults change careers (not just jobs) four to six times or where, as an Australian study predicts, 65% of today's teens will end up in careers that haven't even been invented yet. We don't need to flip the classroom. We need to make it do cartwheels.
  • Thomas Clancy on 13 May 12
     
    I find this paragraph particularly telling: "The cartwheeled classroom not only connects text books and classrooms to the real world, but it also inspires, uplifts, and offers the joy of accomplishment. Transformative, connected knowledge isn't a thing--it's an action, an accomplishment, a connection that spins your world upside down, then sets you squarely on your feet, eager to whirl again. It's a paradigm shift." Imagine what this could mean for our ASU QEP, for example, if we told our twelve 2012-2013 teachers that each of their QEP courses was going to be taught within the larger context of being meaningful to the population of a Haitian, African, Muslim, or Afghan village or community. The difference for the students in their real-world learning would be immeasurable.
Keith Hamon

How to Create Nonreaders - 1 views

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Alfie Kohn reading motivation Education writing

shared by Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10 - Cached
  • have kids read (and write) mostly on their own -- if your goal were to cause them to lose interest in what they’re doing.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
       
      The point of a PLN is to encourage our students to write to other people (teachers too seldom qualify as other people in the minds of students).
  • every single study that has examined grades and intrinsic motivation has found that the former has a negative effect on the latter.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
       
      If we tie writing and critical thinking to grades, we will undermine both.
  • What matters is not what we teach; it’s what they learn,[14] and the probability of real learning is far higher when the students have a lot to say about both the content and the process.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
       
      The point is not to cover content, but to spark knowledge in students.
  • Keith Hamon on 01 Oct 10
     
    I'd like to begin my contribution to an issue of this journal whose theme is "Motivating Students" by suggesting that it is impossible to motivate students. … What a teacher can do - all a teacher can do - is work with students to create a classroom culture, a climate, a curriculum that will nourish and sustain the fundamental inclinations that everyone starts out with:  to make sense of oneself and the world, to become increasingly competent at tasks that are regarded as consequential, to connect with (and express oneself to) other people.
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