“To paraphrase Steve Jobs, “technology alone is not enough” in our schools today. We need a massive paradigm shift if we are going to save our schools, our kids, and our teachers. My own verdict is that we are at an incredible moment of opportunity, a transitional time, but that right now, in 2012, we are courting an Epic Fail. We are expecting too much of the wrong thing. We are judging classroom success by antiquated, arbitrary, and confusing standards that, in themselves, fail our kids and their teachers—even in those schools around the world where kids’ test scores are superb. The test scores (whether high or low) are part of the epic fail because the tests themselves too often replace real learning as the point and purpose of education. If we are going to talk about ethics and responsibilities in the 21st century classroom, we can’t just “add on” new digital tools but we have to rethink the basics of connected, interactive, participatory learning.”
“According to Hattie and Timperley (2007), feedback “… needs to provide information specifically relating to the task or process of learning that fills a gap between what is understood and what is aimed to be understood.” “Specifically,” they add, “feedback is more effective when it provides information on correct rather than incorrect responses and when it builds on changes from previous trails.”
Assignments need goals, not dates
Assignments need to stop having dates on them. Assignments - such as they may be -need to have goals instead.
Via Karl Fisch ( http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2012/02/ideas-id-like-my-future-principal-to.html?m=1)
3 months ago
“But experts do differ in how they organize and use this content knowledge. Experts possess knowledge that is more integrated, in that they combine new subject matter content knowledge with prior knowledge; can relate current lesson content to other
subjects in the curriculum; and make lessons uniquely their own by changing, combining, and adding to them according to their students’ needs and their own goals.”
subjects in the curriculum; and make lessons uniquely their own by changing, combining, and adding to them according to their students’ needs and their own goals.”
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John Hattie - http://www.acer.edu.au/documents/RC2003_Hattie_TeachersMakeADifference.pdf
Something to consider in light of the current review of digital content being conducted by WAG
5 months agoRecently my focus as a teachers has shifted toward getting the environment for learning right, and then letting the children take control of the learning.
8 months ago
“People are talking about the ‘flipped classroom’ and authentic learning in a Power Point, lecturing the audience in a manner that they say doesn’t work for kids. The audience sits in a row, obediently reading their marketing blurb in the zombie-con enviro bag. Nothing changes, except the rotation of speakers.”
