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If you've been looking for a fresh way to get students thinking outside the box, this may be just what you need. 
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This blog was originally posted in Dutch on Didactiefonline by Fred Janssen Translated by Mirjam Neelen & Paul A. Kirschner Almost every curriculum document emphasises that learners must learn to solve problems, do research, reflect, self-regulate, acquire information, think creatively, and think critically. Often, it’s incorrectly assumed that we’re dealing with broad, generic skills here,…
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From artificial intelligence to chatbots, this infographic visualizes what the future of education could look like. Can schools keep up with the times?
Angélica Osorio Castillo's curator insight,
March 1, 2020 4:25 PM
As future teachers, it is necessary to recognize that technology is a fabulous tool if we learn how to use it correctly with our students. We can work together with technology when we assign to our students' homework that requires the use of computers or cellphones; however, to take advantage in full of technology, we will need to learn how to prepare and assign homework with applications that are very useful and dynamic. Technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives, and we know that education needs an update. Going to class is essential for children so they can learn to socialize and work in groups, that is why we will need to prepare our classes in a different way than the traditional ones, so our students can enjoy going to classes instead of staying at home and learning online.
Susan Myburgh's comment,
March 1, 2020 9:25 PM
I agree completely. People who are barely functionally literate, who cannot read, write nor comprehend with any degree of sophistication; people who are too easily swayed by the media and politicians.
Altogether, a very dangerous state of affairs.
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The People of Pedagogy Infographic celebrates the contributions six researchers and educational theorists had on our understanding of pedagogy.
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A forward-looking lesson plan predicted that "computers will soon play as significant and universal a role in schools as books do today"
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In Chapter 10, “Teaching as an Amusing Activity,” Postman looks at another area of social life that has been transformed by television — education. He starts with an apt subject: the long-running…
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Teachers emotionally support our kids -- but who's supporting teachers? In this eye-opening talk, educator Sydney Jensen explores how teachers are at risk of "secondary trauma" -- the idea that they absorb the emotional weight of their students' experiences -- and shows how schools can get creative in supporting everyone's mental health and wellness.
Kassandra Pena's curator insight,
October 4, 2022 2:56 PM
Such a powerful video opens your eyes to all the different teaching factors.
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Having critical thinking skills is a necessity for learning and living life. What are some of the best strategies teachers can use for teaching them? Here are twelve that you'll love using.
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“The worst conversation adults can have with kids about race is no conversation at all,” says author Jemar Tisby. “Talking to kids about race needs…
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Interview with Prof. Noam Chomsky as part of the Learning {Re}imagined transmedia book. Please share your comments with fellow viewers and readers of the book. http://learning-reimagined.com http://wise-qatar.org http://grahambrownmartin.com
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A blog about digital leadership, pedagogy, learning, and transformative change in education.
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Lyall Lukey responds to a pre-Covid article on EdTech and previews virtual live ELF20: Leading Change and Managing Transitions.
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In this infographic, we worked with our friends at the Critical Higher Education Governance Collaborative to tell the story of equity in higher education governing boards.
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from Quartz at Work magazine Grit is on the up. You may have come across articles like ‘How to Be Gritty in the Time of COVID-19’ or ‘Rediscovering the meaning of grit during COVID-19’ . If you still want more, there are new videos from Angela Duckworth herself where we can learn how to…
Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
"We can expect interest in ‘grit’ to continue growing, and this may be accelerated by the publication this year of Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms by Sarah Mercer and Zoltán Dörnyei. In this book, the authors argue that a ‘facilitative mindset’ is required for learner engagement. They enumerate five interrelated principles for developing a ‘facilitative mindset’: promote a sense of competence, foster a growth mindset, promote learners’ sense of ownership and control, develop proactive learners and, develop gritty learners. After a brief discussion of grit, they write: ‘Thankfully, grit can be learnt and developed’ (p.38).
Unfortunately, they don’t provide any evidence at all for this. Unfortunately, too, this oversight is easy to explain. Such evidence as there is does not lend unequivocal support to the claim. Two studies that should have been mentioned in this book are ‘Much ado about grit: A meta-analytic synthesis of the grit literature’ (Credé et al, 2017) and ‘What shall we do about grit? A critical review of what we know and what we don’t know’ (Credé, 2018). The authors found that ‘grit as it is currently measured does not appear to be particularly predictive of success and performance’ (Credé et al, 2017) and that there is no support for the claim that ‘grit is likely to be responsive to interventions’ (Credé, 2018). In the L2 learning context, Teimouri et al (2020) concluded that more research in SLA substantiating the role of grit in L2 contexts was needed before any grit interventions can be recommended."
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A few years ago, Chrissy Romano-Arribito began to experience something that may sound familiar to a lot of teachers: burnout. Or not burnout, exactly
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In November 2016, the Stanford History Education Group released a study showing that young people lacked basic skills of digital evaluation. Since then, a whole host of efforts—includin
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In 1805, if you listened to music, you heard it live. Every time. Today, perhaps 1% of all the music we hear is live, if that. In 1805, if you listened to a lecture for school or work, you heard it…
Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
In 1805, if you listened to music, you heard it live. Every time.
Today, perhaps 1% of all the music we hear is live, if that.
In 1805, if you listened to a lecture for school or work, you heard it live. Every time. Today, that’s still true.
That’s crazy.
Ten years ago, Sal Khan pointed out that thanks to the internet, we should have students watching best-in-class lectures at home, after school… and doing their homework together, with teachers, during the day. (HT to Alison King who wrote about this 26 years ago). That hasn’t happened yet, but it should.
If we’re going to persist in creating hyper-expensive live lectures for millions of people every day, perhaps it’s time to change the dynamic. Imagine that there’s an app (I’ll call it Backchannel) and that the lecturer or her assistant has a dashboard.
Every student already has a phone. Let’s put them to use.
The Backchannel app begins by blocking all other apps–by reporting student participation. If we’re going to do this expensive lecture process in real-time, at the very least you can stop checking Facebook.
Second, the lecturer can at any time ask for students to answer a simple question about what’s being discussed. If a lot of students can’t answer the question, time to slow down. On the other hand, the Backchannel app can also act as a tool for students to anonymously let the lecturer (and the system) know that they’re bored. It’s hard to embrace how obvious this is, and yet it doesn’t get done.
The app can show via the dashboard how active each student is, by percentage or even by name.
Questions can stream in from the app, so the lecturer can get a quick view of what needs to be covered.
Students can have a discussion with one another (no private chats, though) about the last few minutes of what was covered. It’s asynchronous and can lead to far more airtime for people who might not be brave enough to raise a hand.
And of course, just as the school is rating the students (that’s a core tenet of the education-industrial complex) the students can rate every lecture, every time. What a dramatic shift in power, in attention and in reporting.
If we ended up with a classroom where the lecturers were on their toes, where students were actively engaged at all times and where the interactions were far more in sync, wouldn’t that be worth the hassle of putting our devices to better use? We can build this and start using it right now, not someday.
If we insist on lectures being the way they’ve always been, which is a one-way recitation, then let’s simply have students watch best-in-class recordings instead of the wasteful act of recreating them live, every time. But if we’re going to do it live, then let’s actually do it live.
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Teacher as compass: Teachers provide the true north, and help students find a worthy course… one that will challenge their skills on the open learning seas.
Ana Cristina Pratas's insight:
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I recently had the opportunity to speak with a group of parents whose children are transitioning into a new phase of their learning. I used this as an opportunity to share some key messages for successful learning and thought I would briefly unpack these here. I should be clear, these messages are
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A broad new national survey examines media use among children and teenagers and the very different ways young people are using their devices.
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A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
April 9, 2019 1:50 PM
In the end, alternative, multiple, and diverse perspectives win for all, not just the majority.at the "expense" of the few.
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This video tells you about those 15 things that your School doesn't teach you or doesn't want you to know. Watch this video till the end and Do Subscribe t
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