What Sir Ken Got Wrong. “We are educating people out of their creativity” Sir Ken Robinson Sir Ken Robinson’s ideas on education are not only impractical; they are undesirable. If you’re interested in education, at some point someone will have sent you a link to a video by Sir Ken Robinson, knighted for services to education in England in 2003.
He has over 250,000 followers on Twitter, his videos have had over 40,000,000 views online, and his 2006 lecture is the most viewed TED talk of all time. The RSA Opening Minds curriculum his ideas are associated with is taught in over 200 schools in the UK. What explains such iconic influence? Sir Ken’s ideas are incredibly seductive, but they are wrong, spectacularly and gloriously wrong. In a few sentences, this is his argument about education: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. All that glistens is not gold Here are some select quotations from his talks and books that illustrate his ideas: 1. ‘All kids have talents, and we squander them ruthlessly.’ 2. ‘What is education for? 3. 4. 5. Gert Biesta Asterisk TV. SOLO Taxonomy.
Prezi used for NQT Network Session 8th Dec’ 2011 SOLO Taxonomy on Prezi Other SOLO Presentations Like this: Like Loading... Tait coles @Totallywired77 - PuNk Learning | “Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a.
I’ve been reading a lot of Biesta recently, and thinking. The idea of evidence-based research and linking it to current practice and policy takes its origins from the field of medicine; it has since spread to other professions such as social work, probation, clinical psychology and now, education. Evidence-based research assumes that any professional action of practitioners is an intervention.
Research, sometimes through randomised controlled tests, looks for evidence on the effectiveness of these interventions. In other words, the research finds out ‘what works’. Using the extensive writing of Biesta and informative conversations with real life educational researchers, I would like to argue that we need to consider very carefully whether the framework that successfully links research to professional practice in medicine, is appropriate for education.
The role of causality in educational research needs to be questioned on the basis that education is not the same as medicine. Like this: What Schools are Really Blocking When They Block Social Media. February 2, 2012 PROJECTS: The Digital Edge TAGS: Digital Divides, Digital Media & Learning, New Media Literacies, Social Equity, Social Media The debates about schools and social media are a subject of great public and policy interests. In reality, the debate has been shaped by one key fact: the almost universal decision by school administrators to block social media. Education administrators block social media because they believe it threatens the personal and emotional safety of their students. In one class my graduate assistant and I are working with a teacher in a Technology Applications class. In one of our first activities we selected a sample of teen produced PSAs and narrative shorts for the students to study.
We faced a similar challenge in a game design class we are working with. The real issue, of course, is not social media but learning. In the not so distant future the notion that schools should block social media will become difficult to defend. 8 (free) websites to create cool student projects online. Creating an online project is a great way to help students to demonstrate that they have learned something. Below you will find 8 websites that offer great options for any teacher and all are free to use.
The first five have screenshots of examples that I created. Fake Movie Poster Creating a movie poster is a great school project. With this simple website, the task is that much easier. Students simply upload an image, add a few details for the text and then share their completed poster with the teacher. This project works is a great for history, science, or as a final project after reading a novel. Photovisi Here is another website to create great poster projects. Be Funky This site is better known for its photo editing but it also allows users to create photo collages. Poster My Wall Yet another terrific site for creating poster projects for the classroom.
Mural.ly is a fantastic online tool that appears to be intended for business but would work really well in the classroom. Five-Minute Film Festival: 8 Interactive Video Tools for Engaging Learners | Edutopia. Share This With All the Schools, Please. A few weeks ago, I went into Chase’s class for tutoring. I’d emailed Chase’s teacher one evening and said, “Chase keeps telling me that this stuff you’re sending home is math – but I’m not sure I believe him. Help, please.”
She emailed right back and said, “No problem! I can tutor Chase after school anytime.” And I said, “No, not him. Me. I stood a little shakily at the chalkboard while Chase’s teacher sat behind me, perched on her desk, using a soothing voice to try to help me understand the “new way we teach long division.” Afterwards, we sat for a few minutes and talked about teaching children and what a sacred trust and responsibility it is.
And then she told me this. Every Friday afternoon Chase’s teacher asks her students to take out a piece of paper and write down the names of four children with whom they’d like to sit the following week. Who is not getting requested by anyone else? Who doesn’t even know who to request? Who never gets noticed enough to be nominated? Good Lord. Hashtags and retweets: using Twitter to aid Community, Communication and Casual (informal) learning | Reed. Peter Reed* Centre for Excellence in Evidence-Based Learning and Teaching, Institute of Learning & Teaching, Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom (Received 18 September 2012; final version received 13 July 2013; Published: 12 September 2013) Abstract Since the evolution of Web 2.0, or the Social Web, the way in which users interact with/on the Internet has seen a massive paradigm shift.
Keywords: Twitter; communication; personal learning environments; Digital Natives/Immigrants; Digital Visitors/Residents *Email: peter.jp.reed@gmail.com Research in Learning Technology 2013. © 2013 P. Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2013, 21: 19692 - Since the evolution of Web 2.0, or the Social Web, the way in which users interact with/on the Internet has seen a massive paradigm shift. Although it is quickly growing, microblogging site Twitter is not quite at the same scale yet. 10 tips for creating a class agreement. Social media transforms the textbook lesson. 30 January 2014Last updated at 19:49 ET By Carolyn Rice Technology reporter, BBC News Tablets in 1946 had a very different look to those in classrooms these days Forget the blackboard and the chalk.
In fact, forget the whiteboard and the markers. The exercise books, the textbooks and the stationery can also be packed away. A room full of students with a tablet each and a teacher with an enthusiasm for social media is all that is required to engage developing minds. At least in one school in Norway this isn't a vision of the future. Ann Michaelsen, a teacher at Sandvika High School just outside Oslo, has been invited to Bett - the education world's biggest tech fair, held in London - to share her ideas with other technologically minded teachers. "Social media is first and foremost a place to get connected - we do it every single day outside school or work, sometimes in work," she says.
Ann Michaelsen advocates using social media to develop students 'Digitally rich' Innovative thoughts HappyBird. The Only 2 Things You Should Be Discussing in Meetings. True Grit: The Best Measure of Success and How to Teach It. Can you predict academic success or whether a child will graduate? You can, but not how you might think. When psychologist Angela Duckworth studied people in various challenging situations, including National Spelling Bee participants, rookie teachers in tough neighborhoods, and West Point cadets, she found: One characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success. And it wasn't social intelligence. It wasn't good looks, physical health, and it wasn't IQ. It was grit. Why is Grit So Important? Using the Grit Scale that Duckworth developed with Chris Peterson, they found that grit is a better indicator of GPA and graduation rates.
Add to this the findings (from Bowen, Chingos and McPherson's Crossing the Finish Line) that high school grades have a more predictive value of college success than standardized tests, and you may just see a shift from standardized test scores to high school GPA by some college admissions officers. What is Grit? Can Grit be Taught? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. New Padagogy Wheel Helps You Integrate Technology Using SAMR Model. Sometimes a visual guide comes along and it just makes total sense. That’s how I felt about Allan Carrington’s clever ‘Padagogy Wheel‘ which we featured on Edudemic last week. Check out the previous version then view the one below to see the differences. From what I can tell, putting the wheel on this site has generated a bit of buzz and I’m glad we could help spread the knowledge.
But I was quite amazed this morning when I saw that the Padagogy Wheel had been updated. Now at version 2.0, it features another band around the edge focusing on the SAMR Model and on helping teachers (and admins) effectively integrate education technology. This new Padagogy Wheel (which honestly is less about iPads and more about technology integration now) should encourage you to focus on redefining your current standards, the current role tech plays in your classroom, and just about everything else. Want to print out the poster? Rockit-sampler. Teachers Walk in Student Shoes For a Day. Our Thinking Has To Change. This is a bit of a rant… This morning I was pinged on a tweet sharing the article, “Why new technologies could never replace great teaching“.
For some reason, I was up early and read the article and then was WIDE AWAKE. Along with the author, I have a strong belief in the teaching profession. That being said, I believe that educators should in many ways be leading the world, not trying to catch up to it. One of the quotes from the article really caught my attention: Put at its simplest, if future models of learning means encouraging young people to spend prolonged periods in front of faceless computer screens, exposed to largely unregulated material in an inherently unsafe environment, then that is clearly not the way forward.
Wow…a lot of assumptions made there. There are a lot of people that are spending a lot of time on computers and connecting with people. I agree that there is unregulated material online, which is actually a negative and a positive. Do I think teachers are obsolete? Why new technologies could never replace great teaching | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional. At a recent British Council debate, Is teaching obsolete? , executive headteacher Pamela Wright, called for caution around technology in teaching. Here is a transcript of her argument. I am a passionate believer in the teaching profession. Teachers do not simply impart information and knowledge; teaching is not merely about systems, facts, figures and certainly does not exist to promote insularity and lack of social interaction.
If any of these elements were true, then my argument would fall down immediately. It is because the teaching profession is the complete antithesis to all of these ideas, that my argument is strong and compelling. So where do I stand as an educator, as a leader in education? The question I ask every day is what does the child need and what is the best way to ensure that every one of that child's needs are met? Our goal as teachers fundamentally is to encourage independent thought, independent enquiry and ultimately independent learning. The 8 Digital Skills Students Need for The Future. Why are so many of our teachers and schools so successful? John Hattie at TEDxNorrkoping.
Why Learning Through Social Networks Is The Future. By Paul Moss, edmerger.com Students Need Professional Learning Networks, Too Learning to create, manage and promote a professional learning network (PLN) will soon become, if it’s not already, one of the most necessary and sought after skills for a global citizen, and as such, must become a prominent feature of any school curriculum.
Few progressive educationalists would argue that a personal learning network (PLN) is not incredibly valuable and important. Passionate advocates including Murray, Whitby, and Sheninger lead with clarity in such discussions. The wealth of professional development that stems from such a network is quickly defining it as an essential tool for teachers, and will, I believe, replace organised costly professional development undertaken by organisations. However presently, few discussions and promotions of PLN’s venture further than lauding specific benefits for teachers. But why just teachers, and not students? 1. 2. Successful managers are those who are able to: How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses | Wired Business. He started by telling them that there were kids in other parts of the world who could memorize pi to hundreds of decimal points. They could write symphonies and build robots and airplanes.
Most people wouldn't think that the students at José Urbina López could do those kinds of things. Kids just across the border in Brownsville, Texas, had laptops, high-speed Internet, and tutoring, while in Matamoros the students had intermittent electricity, few computers, limited Internet, and sometimes not enough to eat. "But you do have one thing that makes you the equal of any kid in the world," Juárez Correa said.
He looked around the room. Paloma was silent, waiting to be told what to do. "So," Juárez Correa said, "what do you want to learn? " In 1999, Sugata Mitra was chief scientist at a company in New Delhi that trains software developers. Over the years, Mitra got more ambitious. Over the next 75 days, the children worked out how to use the computer and began to learn. How Students Learn by Explaining Their Thinking. November 19, 2013 by Norene Wiesen If you want to master something, teach it. Or so the saying goes. But is the platitude based in fact? Can students really learn better by explaining? The Self-Explanation Effect Research shows that coming up with an explanation can help students learn more effectively than having an explanation handed to them (Fonesca and Chi, 2010).
How Explaining Helps Students Learn How does explaining yield these results? It translates explicit knowledge into implicit know-how. There’s recent evidence, as well, that explaining may be easier than predicting. Why Does Explaining Help Learning? One theory says that explaining sheds light on causal relationships and causal mechanisms. An alternate theory suggests that explaining helps learning because it requires the learner to relate a specific property or event to more general principles or patterns. References: Fonesca, B.A., & Chi, M.T.H. (2010). Lombrozo, T. (2013) Explanation and abductive inference. Related reading: Secret Teacher: we can't be outstanding every day, so why judge us on that? | Teacher Network | Guardian Professional. Thinking beyond the summative assessment task. 5 Powerful Questions Teachers Can Ask Students.
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