Paolo Friere's defined learning as an "act of knowing". The interaction used was between a teacher with his/her maximally systematised knowing and a learner, with minimally systematised learning.
TED Talks Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D. 
Ted-Ed offers lessons in the form of YouTube videos. There are 62 videos and 312 Flipped Lessons. You can watch, adapt or use them with your classroom, homework, or just to learn. 
Masola: "one universal value that seems to be truistic: good, quality #education can change the world" Via Susan Bainbridge Here is a shambles.net website that compiles links and resources about a topic that include SlideShares, YouTube videos, podcasts, infographics, twitter streams using the hashtag #flippedclassroom, and Prezis. 
Finland comes up in nearly every conversation about education reform these days. What, it is asked, can the United States learn from Finnish educational success?
Pasi Sahlberg shares what the US can't learn from Finnish education. Finland can show the US what equal opportunity looks like. Americans cannot achieve equity without first implementing fundamental changes in their school system.
1. Funding of schools. Finnish schools are funded based on a formula guaranteeing equal allocation of resources to each school regardless of location or wealth of its community.
2. Well-being of children: All children in Finland have, by law, access to childcare, comprehensive health care, and pre-school in their own communities. Every school must have a welfare team to advance child happiness in school.
3. Education as a human right: All education from preschool to university is free of charge for anybody living in Finland. This makes higher education affordable and accessible for all.
In Finland, schools and teachers are trusted so there is no external inspection of schools or standardized tests. Teaching is one of the top career choices in Finland. 
In designing online environments, consideration for the diversity of learners should be included. In this blog, a PDF resource is included titled: Design Considerations for Online Courses
"Universal design principles for online learning environments are based on the idea that a broad range of human ability exists. The creation of content needs to be made as usable as possible by as many people as possible regardless of age, ability, or situation.
Usable content accommodates people with disabilities, older people, children, novice technology users and others in ways that benefit all users. Designing for a wide range of users from the beginning of the building process can increase usability without significantly increasing the time it takes to build. The results benefit everyone and reduce modifications later when students, instructors, or content change." Via Kathleen McClaskey Communicating in an online environment, especially within the confines of an institution’s learning management system (LMS) and an academic budget, often poses a challenge to even the most well-intentioned instructors. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D. 
A report by Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey explaining the elements of the Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization chart.
The chart on Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization that we created brought an enormous interest from people and organizations around the world. This report was developed from many questions we received about the chart elements in comparing these terms. In responding to these questions, we have included specific references and links in explaining these elements related to Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization.
Please download the free chart and report! Your feedback would be appreciated. Via Kathleen McClaskey, Barbara Bray 
A great question and answer that uses humor to get across the real reason for teaching and learning. And it is not "tests."
How do you demonstrate learning? Is it about answering the tests? keeping your job?
Read this and chuckle. Students in the Environmental and Spatial Technology (EAST) program, at Horace Mann Magnet Middle School, in Little Rock, Arkansas, connect with nature through projects that serve their community. This video is a few years old but has some good information. For more information and resources on project-based learning, visit http://www.edutopia.org/project-learning ; 
Clarify your objectives and discover your route to social media success. This step-by-step guide will take you from tentative novice to intrepid explorer, and help you make the right decisions unique to your business. Via Bill Palladino - Krios / ITLN |
By Andrea Kurland
Substantial interview with Sir Ken Robinson -JL
"If the first stage of leading a culture of innovation is acknowledging that ‘organisations are not mechanisms and people are not components’, stage two is accepting that there’s no quick fix. “There are all kinds of things that will get in the way of creativity, but there is no guaranteed formula for making it happen,” says Robinson.
"He continues: “Very often people are looking for silver bullets: ‘How do we do it?’ There are rules and conventions you can learn from the past, but the great thing with creativity is there is always a chance you can come up with something completely different that no one has ever thought of before, and there is no set formula to get to that. It’s about recognising that this isn’t just about efficiency. It’s about a frame of mind. It’s a state of possibility that people have to engage with.” Via Jim Lerman 
Be aware of the insidious and unspoken lessons you learned as a child. To thrive in the world outside the classroom, you’re going to have to unlearn them. 
I met John Boyer and saw him present a session on his instructional methods at SXSWedu 2012 in March of this year. While there is a bit more flexibility at the college level, I do think that some of his strategies could be equally effective at the secondary level in terms of engaging a diverse group of students and providing them with more options & choice in terms of accessing content and demonstrating learning. -- SDS Via Stephanie Sandifer 
My focus is the key importance of spatial awareness in redesigning spaces for learning. I hope the second decade of this century will be marked by an awareness that redesigning spaces will be as important to change processes, as describing the new skills deemed necessary for learning and career creation in the last decade. I will focus on our journey of change as a case study for education redesign. Via JackieGerstein Ed.D. 
The flipped classroom is an exciting new instructional approach. As it is relatively new, much of the information about it only is available in the popular press. Little research can be found. On this page, I am pulling together what I can find relevant to flipped classrooms. Enjoy!
Via Susan Bainbridge, Jim Lerman 
This guide is organized into two parts:
Part One is a Guided Process
Part Two assigns readings and activities for experiential PBL. 
Connected Learning.tv offers information and webinars about connected and participatory learning, production centered, peer culture, being networked, and reimagining the experience of education in the information age. Todd Rose, from CAST at the Cyberlearning Research Summit on January 18, 2012, discusses why variability in learning matters. There is the myth of the average learner that currently exists. We need to understand the variability in learning and how to design new learning environments for the full range of learners in the classroom.
He ends his talk with this question: "What do we want cyberlearning to be? First we need to understand variability and how we design for it." Via Kathleen McClaskey 
What better time to explore something new than the start of a New Year. Since beginning this blog in July I have come across the concept of Connectivism several times. Via Susan Bainbridge 
Here's a chart that explains the differences between personalization, differentiation, and individualization. After some research on these terms, Kathleen McClaskey and I were able to determine the differences between these terms in relationship to teaching and learning. Via Kathleen McClaskey, Barbara Bray 
The six steps shared in this article can help schools. Schools like organizations are like silos. It's time to open doors and break down walls to a new collaborative approach.
The section on process approach covers that communicating feedback is not a personal assessment. I like the Q-TIP (Quit Taking It Personally) acronym. Going to use that. I tend to take things personally and realize that critical feedback can help me and others. 
Anthony Cody, a National Board Certified teacher who leads PBL workshops, writes about Texas as a hotspot of rebellion against standardized testing. More than 100 school districts have passed a resolution saying standardized testing is "strangling" their schools. Superintendent John Kuhn says it like it is.
I believe every superintendent should read his speech. There are some great points that prove that government favors business interests that want a profit-based educations system "that would enrich investors, rather than a publicly owned system that enriches our children."
Isn't all about our kids, their future? I highly recommend you read this. 
Just as our classrooms have changed significantly since the 1800s, so have our ideas about the purpose of schools. This article is about a whole child approach as the belief that each student in each classroom should be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
ASCD is leading the movement from envisioning a whole child approach toward implementing those ideas and making them reality. The first step in educating the whole child is to support the whole educator. |
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