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  Will Richardson's reflections on Sir Ken Robinson's new book, The Element. Interesting read (both) about the necessary element of passion in education.

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• 13 Mar 09
  

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  • Sir Ken Robinson’s new book “The Element”
  • Sir Ken lays out the case for personalizing our kids’ educations in the context of transforming (not reforming) schools:
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  • • The key to this transformation is not to standardize education but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of the each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions (238). The curriculum should be personalized. Learning happens in the  minds and souls of individuals–not in the databases of multiple-choice tests (248).
    • Finally, he came to the conclusion that the only way to do it was to create an individualized learning experience for each teacher, to take them where they are and mentor them, individually, to a different place. He’s in the process of surveying each teacher to determine what technologies they currently use, what their comfort levels are, and what they are most passionate about. Then, using those results, he and one other tech educator at the school are going to start going one by one, talking about change, looking at tools, making connections, and shifting the pedagogy.
    • Great teachers have always understood that their real role is not to teach subjects but to teach students (249).
    • Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers.
• 08 Mar 09
  

  Tan Na Chan
  • Learning happens in the  minds and souls of individuals–not in the databases of multiple-choice tests
  • Great teachers have always understood that their real role is not to teach subjects but to teach students
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  • • Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers. In a world where we can engage in our passions through the affordances of connective technologies online, we need to be thinking about how to personalize the learning of the adults in the room as well as the kids. This is not the easy route, by any stretch, but it’s the best route if we’re serious about moving the education of our kids to a different place.
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  • The key to this transformation is not to standardize education but to personalize it
  • people succeed best when they have others who understand their talents, challenges, and abilities
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  Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers.

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• 03 Mar 09
  

  Mathieu Plourde

  Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers. In a world where we can engage in our passions through the affordances of connective technologies online, we need to be thinking about how to personalize the learning of the adults in the room as well as the kids.

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• 28 Feb 09
  

  Christy Tucker

  An argument against standardizing professional development for teachers. Will we ever transform education if we expect every teacher to learn the same things at the same time in the same way? If we personalize their learning and tap into their passions, we might be able to create some real change in education though.

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  • Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers.
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  Will Richardson's reactions to Sir Ken Robinson's book 'The Element'. While Sir Ken argues for personalization of the curriculum for children in schools, Will speaks to the importance of doing the same thing for teachers as learners.

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  • The other day, I was having a conversation along these lines with a good friend who serves as the Director of Technology at a local school. We were talking about change, about how hard it is, and how long it takes. While he’s done a great deal to move his school forward in terms of open source and social tools and technology in general, from a pedagogy standpoint, he had been racking his brain trying to figure out how to support individual teachers in these shifts. Finally, he came to the conclusion that the only way to do it was to create an individualized learning experience for each teacher, to take them where they are and mentor them, individually, to a different place. He’s in the process of surveying each teacher to determine what technologies they currently use, what their comfort levels are, and what they are most passionate about. Then, using those results, he and one other tech educator at the school are going to start going one by one, talking about change, looking at tools, making connections, and shifting the pedagogy.
  • The other day, I was having a conversation along these lines with a good friend who serves as the Director of Technology at a local school. We were talking about change, about how hard it is, and how long it takes. While he’s done a great deal to move his school forward in terms of open source and social tools and technology in general, from a pedagogy standpoint, he had been racking his brain trying to figure out how to support individual teachers in these shifts. Finally, he came to the conclusion that the only way to do it was to create an individualized learning experience for each teacher, to take them where they are and mentor them, individually, to a different place. He’s in the process of surveying each teacher to determine what technologies they currently use, what their comfort levels are, and what they are most passionate about. Then, using those results, he and one other tech educator at the school are going to start going one by one, talking about change, looking at tools, making connections, and shifting the pedagogy.
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