Ken Robinson: How schools kill creativity. Download Free, Open-source Textbooks from OpenStax College. Top 100 Tools for Learning in 2013. Education Nowadays. School Principles. Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion. Teaching is Active.
Future learning. Documentaries. Think Tanks - research. Sort out. The gigantic horrible lie about education. In public education there’s an idea that there are certain things everyone is supposed to know in Kindergarten.
Then there’s some other things all the kids are supposed to learn in first grade and some more things in 2nd grade and so on. Then when you finally graduate from high school, you know all the stuff you’re “supposed to know.” How’s that plan been working for you, anyway? What capability does a high school kid possess on the day he crosses the stage with his diploma at his graduation ceremony? Generally, he possesses the ability to get a $7 per hour job at Wal-Mart or TGI Friday’s. Wow. No wonder most people spend the next 40 years of their colorless existence watching re-runs of 3rd Rock from the Sun. OK, so here’s the problem with the “this is the list of things everybody should know” theory: It turns living, breathing, unique human beings into commoditized, dehumanized hunks of flesh. 140 pounds of human capital. Rage against the machine. I don’t look at it that way.
How sad.
"Geniuses Are Made, Not Born" Don't Mistake Intelligence for Laziness. Steve Jobs: Be a Thinker-Doer as a Blogger. There’s been a video that’s been passed around recently around the interwebs that shows a “lost” interview with Steve Jobs earlier in his career between the time of being dismissed from Apple and being a few years into NeXT, his literal next adventure.
It’s been difficult to find because the original company behind the interview has been pulling it down left and right due to copyright infringement but if you Google hard enough you should be able to find a copy. I suggest you do and if you can sit through the 50 minutes it’s well worth the time. In it he shares some really candid thoughts about business, entrepreneurship, product development, and leadership – it was a great display also of his style of interviewing which was very candid but often-times not as polished (at least the first shot). There was one part that was particularly powerful for us as bloggers that I wanted to share here with you – it’s the idea of being an effective “thinker and doer.”
Like this: Like Loading... Learning Theory - What are the established learning theories? Siemens - Connectivism. Editor’s Note: This is a milestone article that deserves careful study.
Connectivism should not be con fused with constructivism. George Siemens advances a theory of learning that is consistent with the needs of the twenty first century. His theory takes into account trends in learning, the use of technology and networks, and the diminishing half-life of knowledge. It combines relevant elements of many learning theories, social structures, and technology to create a powerful theoretical construct for learning in the digital age. George Siemens Introduction Behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are the three broad learning theories most often utilized in the creation of instructional environments. Learners as little as forty years ago would complete the required schooling and enter a career that would often last a lifetime.
“One of the most persuasive factors is the shrinking half-life of knowledge. STOP STEALING DREAMS: Seth Godin at TEDxYouth@BFS. The Things We Already Know. We know the answers to many of the questions we ask ourselves, whether we admit it or not.
We deny the answers for many reasons. They make us uncomfortable. They require action. They eliminate excuses. Zack Matere: Growing Knowledge. Getting young people fluent in digital. What do you get when you mix unemployed young people with a blended learning incubator in digital skills?
That's what we at Fluency, a new education technology startup, plan to find out. We hope that our unique method of training young people in the skills that small businesses in the UK need, will be instrumental in helping some of the 1.4 million young people not in education, employment or training in the UK into sustainable employment. Fluency is an education platform helping small businesses succeed online, while at the same time getting unemployed youth into great jobs in the digital economy. The social venture started as a series of pilots funded by UnLtd and the Nominet Trust to train low income women with digital skills that are in demand so that they could become digital freelances. The Fluency platform trains small businesses with the skills they need to succeed online: social media marketing, email marketing and search engine optimisation. Teaching and Learning.
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