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 In Classroom of Future, Outdated Testing Can’t Keep Up. And this is where Richtel buries the lead, in paragraph 42, about a third of the way through the article: "Karen Cator, director of the office of educational technology in the United States Department of Education, said standardized test scores were an inadequate measure of the value of technology in schools.
Ms. Cator, a former executive at Apple Computer, said that better measurement tools were needed but, in the meantime, schools knew what students needed. " Dawson carries the point further, saying that standardized tests only measure students' abilities to take tests, and can't gauge intangible skills such as collaboration and critical thinking. Richtel also neglected to point out an important piece of the puzzle: that standardized assessments are in the process of being recreated.
Tom Vander Ark, who was quoted in Richtel's piece, thinks the writer was not as forthcoming as he could have been. Richtel could have also found a better headline for the story. MindShift | How we will learn. MindShift | How we will learn. School Day of the Future. How Do We Prepare Our Children for What’s Next? When most of us were deciding what to major in at college, the word Google was not a verb. It wasn’t anywhere close to being conceived at all.
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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