Despite the attention that the videos get, the greatest benefit to any flipped classroom is not the videos. It’s the in-class time that every teacher must evaluate and redesign. What do you think is the teacher's worst enemy? Some would say lack of time. Others would say unsupportive leadership, or the dreaded government inspection. Rigid curriculum, lack of resources and bad student behaviour may also be high on the list for many educators. For me, the worst enemy is bad theory. Bad theory, when accepted without challenge, can lead to bad practice. It's insidious, because bad theory that is accepted as fact without a full understanding of its implications, results in bad teaching, and ultimately, learners will suffer. 
G. Randy Kasten is an attorney and author of Just Trust Me: Finding the Truth in a World of Spin. Via Jesús Salinas The National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), que es la Asociación Nacional de Niños Superdotados de Estados Unidos con sede en Washington, ha publicado una curiosa "Carta de Derechos de los Niños Superdotados y Talentosos" en castellano que podéis consultar pulsando la siguiente imagen: 
My hope is that we’ll put our energy into making critical thinking a central and essential part of classroom pedagogy. Via juandoming 
"The Elite Illusion", a new paper from Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Joshua Angrist, and Parag Pathak, is causing quite a stir in the blogosphere today. ... Lo divertido de todo esto, sin embargo, es un pequeño secreto: los colegios privados no sirven para nada, al menos desde un punto de visto puramente educativo. Felix Salmon lo mencionaba el otro día, hablando de la obsesión de la gente con dinero de Nueva York de gastarse $32.000 al año en colegios superespeciales y superelitistas; un niño de clase media o media-alta aprende exactamente lo mismo en una escuela pública que en una muy exclusiva y privada institución de enseñanza. 
New research overturns the theory that you can only learn by doing... You’ve heard it before, and it’s true: we learn by doing. But we also learn by watching 
Students don’t always like working in groups. Ann Taylor, an associate professor of chemistry at Wabash College, had a class that was particularly vocal in their opposition. Via Jesús Salinas Un artículo recién publicado en The Lancet vuelve a traer el interés sobre un tema peliagudo, la medicalización de la sociedad. En esta ocasión es el duelo o luto que algunos han tratado de convertir en une enfermedad mental en lugar de lo que es, un sufrimiento, dolor o pesar por la pérdida de un ser querido 
February 20, 2012 | 10:15 AM | By mindshift At the star-studded Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching (HILT) event earlier this month, where professors gathered to discuss innovative strategies for learning and teaching, Harvard’s professor Eric Mazur gave a talk on the benefits of practicing peer instruction in class, rather than the traditional lecture. The idea is getting traction. Here’s more about the practice. Via Jesús Salinas 
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Hace unos días Antonio Cabrales escribía una entrada en Nada es Gratis sobre los charter schools. Para los que no los conozcáis, son colegios parecidos a nuestros concertado: de gestión privada... The Buck Institute for Education commissioned the cutting-edge advertising agency, Common Craft, to create a short animated video that explains in clear lang... Via Aprender en red/@ediazsan, Carmen Huisa, Sergi Martín Cabeza, Pablo Torres, Cristóbal Suárez, Salomón Rivero López, Joaquin Sevilla 
Sugerencias de los docentes del KIPP King Collegiate High School (California, EEUU) sobre cómo desarrollar y evaluar el pensamiento crítico en tus estudiantes... Via IES Mencey Bencomo 
A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A statement of a learning objective contains a verb (an action) and an object (usually a noun). The verb generally refers to [actions associated with] the intended cognitive process. The object generally describes the knowledge students are expected to acquire or construct. (Anderson and Krathwohl, 2001, pp. 4–5) Vía @juandoming Via JackieGerstein Ed.D., Marcel Lebrun, Frederic DOMON, Ana Rodera, juandoming, ernestprats 10 habilidades que necesita un docente de la era posdigital.
Interesante presentación en Slideshare Please let there be more research along these lines. Do kids who go to "good schools" (either schools in expensive school districts or private schools) do better, academically, than kids who go to underperforming schools in the inner city? Are you sure? Even after controlling for socio-economic status? I’m not at all sure, and now the Times is reporting on the most recent study in England with this headline: "Privileged children excel, even at low-performing comprehensives". 
Blogger Andrew Miller offers some strategies for making the model work, including appropriate reflection, technology considerations, creating a need to know and more. 
Que necesitan dominar los estudiantes de hoy día.
Conciso y acertado!! 
Joshua Kim offers up five interesting strategies for encouraging innovation in higher education in his short blog. Via Jesús Salinas 
I’ve been following the schools that make up ICG for some time – impressed by the fact that all of them are really walking-their-talk with regards “teacher-generated curriculum”. Come on…who is not going to be impressed by a bunch of schools that know their stuff with regards student LEARNing and who put that stuff at the heart of their decision-making? Via Pilar Pamblanco 
How do we promote self control? Here are a few ideas from research that show it's not how we might think. |
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