Day Blog (schoolyard subversion) Welcome to Unschooling What is it? When I first discovered Sudbury schools, I found them interesting. As I began to research them more, I found them fascinating. Unschooling is a phenomenon that is still relatively small, but steadily growing. Unschooling someone is surprisingly simple. How do I do it? I found out about unschooling through an incredible book: Teenage Liberation Handbook (TLH) [Amazon; price search], by Grace Llewellyn. The real-life examples and experiences made it clear that this is no wacko fringe group, or simply a program for "gifted" kids. Various studies that the book cites show that unschooled children are perfectly successful in the "real world" and almost always do better on standardized tests than their schooled peers -- even when they've never cracked a textbook or taken a conventional course. How will they possibly learn without school? I learned English not from school, but by writing emails and this column, as well as reading heavily.
Citelighter (The Pinterest For Research) Launches Massive Global Learning Database For those of you who haven’t heard of the new(ish) startup Citelighter , take note: it’s a pretty awesome tool. I’ve been playing around with it and chatted with founders of the company last week and am thoroughly impressed. So what exactly is Citelighter and why should you care? How It Works - Like Pinterest, you download their toolbar which allows you to quickly capture content that you’re looking at online. - Then, you can add comments while they’re still fresh in your head (perhaps to remind you why you thought it was useful in case you forget later on?) - Once you’re done, you export your facts, citations, and notes to a word document to use later when writing a paper or creating a reference document. Today’s Announcement I think we can all agree that millions of articles = a whole lotta research material = awesome research papers written by you. “The team over at Citelighter has spent, and continues to spend, a lot of time with students understanding their research habits. 1. 2. 3.
Co to jest szkoła demokratyczna? cz.1 Szkoła demokratyczna – czyż połączenie tych dwóch słów nie wydaje się wam nieco szokujące? Większość z nas uczęszczała do tradycyjnej szkoły i gdyby przeprowadzić ankietę mało prawdopodobne, aby ktoś z nas określił ją takim właśnie przymiotnikiem. Jeśli przetłumaczymy słowa demokracja, jako „władza ludu” – to w kontekście szkolnym musimy uznać, że szkoła demokratyczna oznacza szkołę, w której „władzę” dzierży społeczność szkolna – nie sami nauczyciele, nie sami rodzice, ale głównie uczniowie! Spójrz inaczej na edukację Żeby zrozumieć, czym jest szkoła demokratyczna – musimy zmienić nasze tradycyjne pojmowanie słowa edukacja. Nie zapomnijmy też o regulującym wszystkiego programie ustalanym przez Ministerstwo Edukacji Narodowej. Jakie jest w tym wszystkim miejsce ucznia? Słyszeliście zasadę „zakuć, zdać, zapomnieć”? Gdy młodzi ludzie opuszczają później szkołę czują się zagubieni, zdezorientowani, bo nagle okazuje się, że nie ma już schematu, który wyznaczałby, jak mają żyć.
For Back to School, Reimagine Classroom Design Teaching Strategies Lenny Gonzales By Therese Jilek As the school year begins, most classrooms across the country will mirror traditional class design: rows of desks with passive children sitting quietly listening to a teacher in the front of the class. But not at Hartland-Lakeside. The innovative spaces were a product of teachers changing how they taught and viewed student learning. Teachers realized that they needed to do more than rearrange the room; they needed to start over. As teachers transformed their roles into facilitators of learning, they found that standing in front of the classroom or lecturing was no longer prudent. Students and teachers work together throughout the day in many different ways. This change also reflects the increased use of mobile technology to personalize learning. There’s already plenty of research to show that this kind of change is necessary. Therese Jilek “My desk used to feel like my prison,” said a third-grader. The Third Teacher Design Share Related
Carnet de (mauvaises) notes Il y a la foison de remarques acerbes : "Un peu fantaisiste", "Trop de dispersion", "Trop remuant", "Infantile", "Incorrigible bavard". De mises en garde martelées : "Attention !'', "Insuffisant", "Très insuffisant", "Ne fait pas le maximum", "Ne travaille pas suffisamment". Une litanie d'injonctions : "Doit se ressaisir", "Doit s'accrocher", "Doit faire un effort". Un "miroir" "On ne s'attendait pas du tout à ça !" Pourtant, voici bien deux décennies que travaux de recherche, études officielles, livres engagés dénoncent les méfaits d'une école française qui décourage, sanctionne. Absurdité de cette pression De nombreux chercheurs et des enquêtes, notamment celles de l'OCDE, montrent pourtant l'absurdité de cette pression : l'obsession de l'excellence ne fait en rien une école excellente. "Je me suis dit : 'Il faut en faire quelque chose', raconte l'ancien libraire. Idée lumineuse.
10 Free Web 2.0 Tools And How To Easily Use Them In Your Classroom Earlier this week I had the opportunity to attend the first Ozarks Education Research Initiative (OERI) Teacher Technology Conference at Willard High School (MO). The learning sessions I attended were all very good and I am going to share 10 of the FREE tools I learned about below. I will be incorporating them into how I teach and hopefully by using these tools during faculty meetings, PD sessions, and other opportunities as they arise, this will help us all to find ways to incorporate them into the classroom to engage our students even more. This quote from last week has stuck with me ever since it was spoken – “Date the tool. Engagement is key! Twitter summary of OERI Teacher Technology Conference at Willard High School on May 30, 2012 via Storify This is a summary of the tweets sent out during the conference. Socrative This link takes you to their website. Today’s Meet by Allison Pilley @ajpilley This is a blog post Allison wrote about how Today’s Meet could be used in meetings. Go!
A School With No Teachers, Where Students Teach Themselves Big Ideas UTC Library/Flickr By Eleanor Beardsley, NPR A new computer school in Paris has been overwhelmed by some 60,000 applicants. The school, called 42, was founded by a telecom magnate who says the French education system is failing young people. His aim is to reduce France’s shortage in computer programmers while giving those who’ve fallen by the wayside a new chance. In the hallways of 42, suitcases and sleeping bags are piled, and people are stretched out on mattresses in some of the corners. Living here for the next month are some of the 4,000 potential students who already made the first cut by passing cognitive skill tests online. Now they have to clear another hurdle. A Demand For Thinkers From Any Class “It’s very, very intensive,” Sadirac says. The only criteria for applying is to be between the ages of 18 and 30. Sadirac says they’re not looking for how much students know, but how they think. “We don’t want to teach them stuff. A Different Way To Learn Related
12 Reasons We Need To Reinvent The School Desk Added by Jeff Dunn on 2012-09-27 Students young and old frequently complain about the quality of the desks and chairs provided on campus, yet it remains one of the more overlooked issues. A pity, because poor ergonomics and comfort can actually lead to poor health, and poor health leads to missed classes and heightened medical expenditures once career time rolls around. Maybe it’s about time educators, schools, and districts reconsidered their approach towards how they set up classrooms. The positive outcomes might very well prove surprising. Sitting increases the risk of a heart attack : Small children probably don’t suffer from the same risk of heart attacks as their parents, but healthy habits stick better when introduced early. This is a post from our content partners at Online Degrees . Comments are closed.
Unschooling doesn't look like school at all - Pam Laricchia Le unschooling ne ressemble pas du tout à l’école Traduit par Stéphanie Meloche Le unschooling ressemble à la vie Le unschooling c’est comme des vacances d’été qui ne finissent jamais, moins la chaleur (à moins que vous n’habitiez plus près de l’équateur que moi!) Et à quoi ressemble l’apprentissage à l’école? La question est : comment les unschoolers arrivent à apprendre de cette façon, alors qu’on nous a appris qu’on ne pouvait apprendre que dans le système? Regardons en quoi le unschooling est différent de l’école et pourquoi. Les unschoolers ne croient pas en l’idée que tous ont besoin de connaître les mêmes compétences et les mêmes informations générales à un âge précis. Qu’en est-il de ce savoir et de ces compétences qui sont nécessaire pour se débrouiller dans la société? (2) Atmosphère soutenante Le fait de ne pas suivre un programme ne veut pas dire que les parents d’unschoolers ne font rien. (3) L’emphase sur les aspirations (4) Interagir avec des personnes de tous âges
How The 10 Most Innovative Colleges Use Technology 5 Reasons We Use Social Media 10.01K Views 0 Likes There are many reasons we use social media. 5 Things To Know About SXSWedu 5.73K Views 0 Likes The real story for anyone reading this is SXSWedu, the education-oriented version of the conference that's turning into a force of nature. 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. "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. A charismatic and convincing proselytizer, Mitra has become a darling in the tech world. Mitra argues that the information revolution has enabled a style of learning that wasn't possible before.