Three Trends That Define the Future of Teaching and Learning. Culture Digital Tools Teaching Strategies This week, we feature the most popular posts of the year on MindShift. In today’s dynamic classrooms, the teaching and learning process is becoming more nuanced, more seamless, and it flows back and forth from students to teachers. Here’s a look at current trends in teaching and learning, their implications, and changes to watch for. The Three Key Trends 1. If Web 2.0 has taught us anything, it’s to play nicely together. Lenny Gonzales Sharing information and connecting with others — whether we know them personally or not — has proven to be a powerful tool in education. They’re finding each other on their own kid-specific social networking sites, on their blogs, on schools’ sites, and of course on Facebook and Twitter.
Educators Unite But social networking is not just for teens, as evidenced by the 500 million-plus Facebook users. 2. Flickr:Randy Pertiet Creating media is another noteworthy tech-driven initiative in education. 3. Lenny Gonzalez. In Classroom of Future, Outdated Testing Can’t Keep Up. Digital Tools Teaching Strategies Flickr:AlbertoGP Sunday’s New York Times article, “In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores” by Matt Richtel had the wrong headline.
When describing a classroom in Arizona’s Kyrene School District, which invested $33 million from a ballot initiative dedicated to technology upgrades, Richtel laments the district’s “stagnant scores” in reading and math. He writes: “Critics counter that, absent clear proof, schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals.” When technology is deployed thoughtfully in a way that feeds into a broader system that’s not reliant on the outdated factory model of schooling, the quality of learning should not be discounted — even if it can’t be measured yet. And this is where Richtel buries the lead, in paragraph 42, about a third of the way through the article: Related.
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Neither was Wikipedia or the iPhone or YouTube. We made decisions about our future employment based on what we knew existed at the time. We would become […] Continue Reading A Glimpse into Future Schools Education Next’s report on five schools that exemplify the model of the future school includes the Denver School of Science and Technology and Carpe Diem Collegiate High School. Continue Reading A Challenge to Doubters: Do Something Impossible Make Your Own List. Continue Reading 21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020 Flickr: Corey Leopold Inspired by Sandy Speicher’s vision of the designed school day of the future, reader Shelly Blake-Plock shared his own predictions of that ideal day.
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