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When Teaching the Right Answers Is the Wrong Direction | Edutopia - 0 views

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shared by Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Step off the soapbox, tone down that direct teaching, and become wondrous and inquisitive right along side your students. Take a break from what you are expert at and delve into unknown territory with new content, activities, or a concept. Here are ways to get started:
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
       
      In QEP terms, this means ceasing to be THE content deliverer and become a co-content explorer and generator with your students.
  • Begin and end a lesson, unit, or project with an essential question or two. These are overarching questions that do not have a definitive answer
  • Take every opportunity to express to your students that you have no idea about an answer, even if you have to fake it a little.
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  • Dwindle down those teacher sentences that start with "This means" and replace them with, "I wonder," "What if," and "How might?"
  • Give students plenty of think time. When you stop rushing, students may seem a bit shocked and may even believe it to be some sort of trick or hidden tactic.
  • Be mindful of your tone. Try replacing a flat, authoritative, expert-sounding one with -- and this might sound corny -- a singsong intonation, the one we use when we are whimsically curious.
  • Make your classroom a place of wonderment.
  • Keith Hamon on 07 Sep 10
     
    Students are all too often on a quest for the Correct Answers, which has little to do with critical-thinking development. Our schools are about competition, merits, awards, and how to earn the Golden Ticket -- giving the right answers. And this focus often starts as early as kindergarten.  … Studies show that getting answers wrong actually helps students learn.
Keith Hamon

Powerful Learning: Studies Show Deep Understanding Derives from Collaborative Methods |... - 1 views

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shared by Keith Hamon on 11 Jan 11 - Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 11 Jan 11
     
    Today's students will enter a job market that values skills and abilities far different from the traditional workplace talents that so ably served their parents and grandparents. They must be able to crisply collect, synthesize, and analyze information, then conduct targeted research and work with others to employ that newfound knowledge. In essence, students must learn how to learn, while responding to endlessly changing technologies and social, economic, and global conditions.
Keith Hamon

Introduction to Edcamp: A New Conference Model Built on Collaboration | Edutopia - 1 views

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shared by Keith Hamon on 04 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 04 Oct 11
     
    One of the organizers of Edcamp Philly, a free education "unconference" that took place in Philadelphia last May. The event attracted the attention of educators from around the world--not only for the excellent content and collaborative spirit, but also for the unconference model itself -- one that costs next to nothing to produce by facilitating ad-hoc community participation.
Keith Hamon

From Groups to Teams: The Key to Powering up PBL | Edutopia - 1 views

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shared by Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • PBL teachers need a set of tools that establish a team ethic. They also need to set aside time for this during a project and before a project.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
       
      Team ethic is key to successful collaboration.
  • Use a solid, detailed collaboration and teamwork rubric
  • Distinguish working groups from teams.
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  • Help students focus on the core element that distinguishes a group from a team: The commitment to each other’s success.
    • Keith Hamon
      Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
       
      We don't teach students how to identify & capitalize upon the different strengths they each bring to a team.
  • Keith Hamon on 15 Apr 11
     
    PBL is still kind of a cool way to address standards and, too often these days, is simply coverage by another name. But its ultimate benefit is to help students think, learn, and operate in the new century by challenging them at deeper levels. That requires reversing the equation between skills and content: PBL is method for teaching students to find, process, understand, and share information, not a way to extend the industrial landscape of regurgitation and recall.
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