Sir Ken Robinson: Stepping Up to the Plate. Last Saturday, I made my professional debut at the AT&T Park, celebrated home of the San Francisco Giants baseball team. At 10.00 a.m. I was sitting by the dugout in the bright morning sunshine, waiting to be called onto the famous field. An excited crowd of several thousand people was buzzing with anticipation. As I looked out across the manicured green diamond, it was a moment to reflect on the improbable turns our lives can take. Fortunately, I wasn't there to pitch balls but to pitch ideas, as a guest speaker for the annual conference of an extraordinary gathering of parents, students and educators. PEN convenes conferences, lectures and workshops that bring local and national practitioners to speak to parents and educators. In 2009, PEN students launched the Education Revolution, a full day of workshops, conversations and events day dedicated "to understanding each child's individuality in learning as the basis for creating new educational environments.
" "Failing College" The BIG BANG Coming in Student Testing. Prediction: Within five years in some countries (five to ten in others) open Internet access for information acquisition will be available on standardized tests. This access will significantly reduce the quantity of data designated for rote memorization. The Current Information Load Is Too BIG Recall that before 1994 a student would be expelled from the SAT exams for bringing any type of calculator. Starting in 1994, calculators were not only permitted, but were essentially required. The driving factors came from the level of mathematics taught and tested and the availability of graphing calculator technology.
This change gave students the appropriate tool for accuracy and efficiency (and the one used by most professionals who used mathematics beyond basic arithmetic). We are now in the same nexus of advancement of information and technology to make the equivalent jump for other subjects. Memorization Breaking Point Students Don’t Get the Brain’s They Need Freedom Your Predictions? Educar en el siglo XXI: Transformación educativa para una sociedad inclusiva. Resulta complejo instalar temáticas de educación en contextos de sociedades inclusivas, cuando en Chile se han ido tatuando segregaciones brutales de carácter social, cultural y principalmente en su quehacer cotidiano, que se presentan como una vorágine incontrolable en nuestras escuelas más vulnerables-vulneradas de la periferia social.
Esto, desde la pujante economía neoliberal del país. Enmarcados en esta realidad, han sido puestas en la palestra temáticas populares como el “lucro”, el traspaso de las escuelas municipales al Estado chileno y una educación de “calidad”, que si bien es exigida como tal, no se explicita de forma clara. Centrando el valor primordial de todas las demandas en situaciones relacionadas con la política de carácter partidista y ministros de educación en turno, además de cómo desarrollar un sistema educativo gratuito y público que comparto absolutamente. Por Francisco Guajardo Medina Fundación Educándonos Francisco Guajardo. La Educación Prohibida - Película Completa HD.
Teaching Strategies That Work! (Just Don’t Ask “Work to Do What?”) So here's the dilemma for someone who writes about education : Certain critical cautions and principles need to be mentioned again and again because policy makers persist in ignoring them, yet faithful readers will eventually tire of the repetition. Consider, for example, the reminder that schooling isn't necessarily better just because it's more "rigorous. " Or that standardized test results are such a misleading indicator of teaching or learning that successful efforts to raise scores can actually lower the quality of students' education. Or that using rewards or punishments to control people inevitably backfires in multiple ways. Even though these points have been made repeatedly (by me and many others) and supported by solid arguments and evidence, the violation of these principles remains at the core of the decades-old approach to education policy that still calls itself "reform.
" The answer, it turns out, is generally some variation on compliance. Doing More Time in School: A Cruel Non-Solution to Our Educational Problems. School doesn’t work very well, so let’s make kids do more of it! That seems to be the policy enthusiastically supported by President Obama, by his education secretary Arne Duncan, by many teachers’ unions (as long as the teachers are well paid for the extra time), and by many education policy makers in and out of academia. Kids aren’t learning much in school, so let’s make them start school when they are younger; let’s make them stay more hours in school each day and more days each year; and let’s not allow them to leave until they are at least 18 years old. Let’s do all this especially to the poor kids; they are getting the least out of school now, so let’s lengthen their time in school even more than we lengthen the time for others! As I read and listen to the arguments for more forced schooling, what disturbs me most is the complete disregard for the opinions of students.
The argument that more time in school increases test scores is debatable. Beyond the Three R's. The Disciplined Mind What All Students Should Understand. By Howard Gardner. Simon & Schuster. $25. This is a strange moment in education. The pervasive sense of crisis that grips our public schools has provoked a spirit of rampant experimentation, and has fostered a kind of laboratory sector in which thousands of schools have reshaped themselves according to the doctrine of one of a number of gurus. ''The Disciplined Mind'' represents among other things Gardner's effort to deal with some of the unfortunate consequences of his gurudom.
In fact, Gardner describes the book as a ''sustained dialectic'' with E. Gardner proposes what he calls an ''understanding pathway,'' in which the K-12 curriculum would be organized around the most fundamental questions of existence. Progressive educational doctrine has the built-in polemical advantage of idealism; it is always after something higher. This odd separation of fact and understanding leads Gardner down a peculiar pedagogical path.
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It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year. Knowledge that is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. El Control Mental, la Meditacion, el Altruismo y La Ciencia (2/2) The Number One Cause of College Unhappiness. During the next couple of weeks, twenty-million students will head off to college. The majority of them will make it through those four or five years without serious problems. They'll succeed academically, make lifelong friends and have plenty of fun.
A sizable minority, however, won't be so lucky. Based on a 2009 survey conducted by the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA II), 39 percent of college students will feel hopeless during the school year, 25 percent will feel so depressed they'll find it hard to function, 47 percent will experience overwhelming anxiety, and 84 percent will feel overwhelmed by all they have to do.
This is not what these hopeful young people were led to expect. Most of them left for college believing it would be the best time of their lives - a privileged hiatus between the strictures of adolescence and responsibilities of adulthood? So why the distress? The answer is academic floundering. The Perils of Higher Ed. We go to college to learn, to soak up a dazzling array of information intended to prepare us for adult life. But college is not simply a data dump; it is also the end of parental supervision. For many students, that translates into four years of late nights, pizza banquets and boozy weekends that start on Wednesday. And while we know that bad habits are detrimental to cognition in general—think drunk driving—new studies show that the undergrad urges to eat, drink and be merry have devastating effects on learning and memory .
It turns out that the exact place we go to get an education may in fact be one of the worst possible environments in which to retain anything we've learned. Dude, I haven't slept in three days! Normal human beings spend one-third of their lives asleep, but today's college students aren't normal. All-night cramfests may seem to be the only option when the end of the semester looms, but in fact getting sleep—and a full dose of it—might be a better way to ace exams.
Deschooling Society - An Open Book Group. 10 Principles for Teaching Ethics (and Lots of Other Stuff) Professors face lots of decisions about what to teach and how to teach it . Here are ten of my guiding principles that I shared with the students in our graduate course: " Ethics and Professional Issues in Psychology. " Most of these principles are suitable for just about any college course.
I reproduce the principles from my syllabus without commentary. See what you think: Ethics is best taught in an atmosphere of trust, support, and aspiration . Fear (of lawsuits, complaints, etc.) doesn't work as well. Ethics is a knowledge-based set of skills, not a personality trait. Ethics skills include self-reflection, application, and integration. Knowledge is relatively easy to attain, skills are not; skills take practice to develop. The only way to learn is to work at it, and the best way to do work is to play.
Information from books and other writing is neither simple nor self-evident. Writing is a form of thinking and constructing knowledge. Learning. Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Gandhi I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think - Socrates Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do. - Goethe The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. - John Powell You cannot teach a man anything. Learning is not a spectator sport. - Chickering and Gamson For learning to take place with any kind of efficiency students must be motivated. The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in experience. - Carl Rogers It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. - Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (b. 1926).
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. Training is everything. The Educational World Is Flat. Tom Vander Ark is an educational innovator who thinks like an engineer. He is currently the CEO of Open Educational Solutions, a partner in Learn Capital, and director of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning. Previously he served as President of the X PRIZE Foundation and was the Executive Director of Education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a prolific writer and speaker, and in 2006 Newsweek readers voted Tom the most influential baby boomer in education. Anyone familiar with his work will know that he is not shy in making predictions about our educational future.
I think is like for education. But I also think it's much more than that. After taking a tour of our educational future with Tom as my guide, I had the pleasure of chatting with him on the phone. When you visit U.S. secondary schools, the overwhelming affect is boredom. For 15 years, learning technologies have given students some level of control over level, rate, time, and location. Constructivism. The Many Faces of Constructivist Learning Part 1. The Benefits of Unschooling: Report I from a Survey of 231 Families. Five months ago, in September, 2011, I posted an essay ( here ) introducing readers to the unschooling movement and inviting unschooling families to participate in a survey. The survey questionnaire—which was posted on Pat Farenga's Learning Without School site and Jan Hunt's Natural Child Project site—asked unschooling families to tell us a bit about their family, including the age and sex of each child, the employment of each parent , and the history of schooling, homeschooling, and unschooling of each child.
It also asked the respondents to define unschooling as it is practiced in their home, to describe the path that led them to unschooling, and to tell us about the biggest challenges and benefits of unschooling for their family. My colleague Gina Riley (adjunct professor of special education at Hunter College) and I have been working on analyzing the results and preparing a report for publication in an educational journal. Who responded to the survey? ¿Crees que el sistema educativo actual es el adecuado para tus hijos? Institucionalizacion del saber-carlos perez soto. Noam Chomsky on the Role of the Educational System. NO creo en la Escuela Tradicional, pero SI en la Educación (Parte 01)
Education: A College Cure? Mental health problems have become so prevalent among college students that they are not just overwhelming campus counseling centers—they now threaten the core mission of the university. "It's an important nationwide problem in higher education," says Steven Hyman, provost of Harvard University. A group of educators and mental health experts is proposing a novel solution—overhauling the way classes are taught in order to engage students more actively and completely in learning. The idea is to make the college experience itself an antidote to widespread student depression, anxiety and binge drinking. "Both alcohol abuse and depression are forms of disengagement.
We think engagement is the solution," says Donald W. Harward, president emeritus of Bates College and head of the Bringing Theory to Practice Project. There's no formula for engagement. The Charles Engelhard Foundation, which funds the initiative, awarded grants to 39 schools to develop and evaluate engaged-learning strategies. Evaluacion. Opposing Approaches So Johnny Can Read - Analysis on One Side, Facts on the Other. No Joking: Our Kids are Failing Democracy 101. RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms.