This link has been bookmarked by 93 people . It was first bookmarked on 09 Apr 2016, by Jonah Salsich.
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18 Aug 17alexrayjohnson
A powerful article on some of the most unsettling things in modern education.
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22 Apr 17Dana Watts
#21cgels 9 elephants link: https://t.co/SKuBsgvqrr @willrich45 @j0hnburns
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16 Nov 16marleedaffodil
At a recent morning workshop for school leaders at a fairly small New England public school district, about an hour into a conversation focused on what they believed about how kids learn best, an assistant superintendent somewhat surprisingly said aloud what many in the room were no doubt feeling. “When I really try to square …
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29 Sep 16teacher0816cat
At a recent morning workshop for school leaders at a fairly small New England public school district, about an hour into a conversation focused on what they believed about how kids learn best, an assistant superintendent somewhat surprisingly said aloud what many in the room were no doubt feeling. “When I really try to square …
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because the new contexts for modern learning forged by the networked world in which we now live are creating an imperative for new ways of thinking about our work in schools.
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Yet we continue to focus our efforts primarily on content knowledge, as is evidenced by the focus of our assessments. If we would acknowledge that true learning is unforgettable, made of the things that we want to learn more about, we’d radically shift our focus in the classroom.
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Hand them more agency over their own learning instead.
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Among other things, we had an interest and a passion for the topic, we had a real, authentic purpose in learning it, we had agency and choice, deciding what, when, where, and with whom we learned it, and we had fun learning it even if some of it was “hard fun.” We know this. But in the vast majority of curriculum driven schools, however, students sit and wait to be told what to learn, when to learn it, how to learn it, and how they’ll be assessed on it. Rarely do they get to choose, and just as rarely does the learning they do in class have any impact beyond the classroom walls.
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creativity, curiosity, a change mindset, the ability to create, connect, and participate in networks…all of those are now required, yet few of those are currently assessed at all.
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we seem loathe to mess with the recipe.
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now that we have access to pretty much all there is to know, “what one-billionth of one percent” are we going to choose to teach in school?
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But there is a strong argument building that we have reached “peak education” as we continue to do try to do the wrong thing right and get “wronger” in the process.
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tacit knowledge and the ability to learn from others, in the moment, both face to face and in networks is vastly more important and effective. Most of what we teach kids we teach them “just in case” they may need it some day, primarily because the system is still operating on the belief that explicit knowledge is scarce. With the Web, it’s not. Those that will flourish in the modern world will be those who can learn what they need to learn “just in time” from a variety of networks and sources and experiences.
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suppose the other elephant that I know you talk about a lot is that we no longer need teachers expertise in the way we used to. For many, this remains a stronghold of identity and purpose. But teacher as expert, is now a nice, but not necessary quality. We need learners, mentors and connectors. For many of our current teachers, these are somewhat elusive.
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12 Sep 16Jonathan Martz
At a recent morning workshop for school leaders at a fairly small New England public school district, about an hour into a conversation focused on what they believed about how kids learn best, an assistant superintendent somewhat surprisingly said aloud what many in the room were no doubt feeling. “When I really try to square …
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That’s primarily because the curriculum and classroom work they experience has little or no relevance to students’ real lives.
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these practices are attempting to do “the wrong thing right” rather than “do the right thing” in the first place. But we carry on regardless.
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14 Jun 16rhyduk1
At a recent morning workshop for school leaders at a fairly small New England public school district, about an hour into a conversation focused on what they believed about how kids learn best, an assistant superintendent somewhat surprisingly said aloud what many in the room were no doubt feeling. "When I really try to square …
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12 May 16JoAnn Butts
If you're familiar with MCL and Inevitable, you might recognize some of the "bathwater" on this list. If it's new to you, see what you think.Be sure to read about the 10th elephant in the comments!!
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Golden Gadoh
At a recent morning workshop for school leaders at a fairly small New England public school district, about an hour into a conversation focused on what they believed about how kids learn best, an assistant superintendent somewhat surprisingly said aloud what many in the room were no doubt feeling. “When I really try to square …
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Andy Arcand
9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us via @willrich45 https://t.co/aXM4ODWCBO #edchat #education #educhat #digileaders
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24 Apr 16Margaret Simkin
Excellent: 9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us https://t.co/Vzj0uYoteA #leadupchat #satchat
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23 Apr 16
At a recent morning workshop for school leaders at a fairly small New England public school district, about an hour into a conversation focused on what they believed about how kids learn best, an assistant superintendent somewhat surprisingly said aloud what many in the room were no doubt feeling. “When I really try to square …
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14 Apr 16Sara Wilkie
Can elephants lurk in your classroom or school?
https://t.co/Px1ofgK0rC
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Janene van Gogh
9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us (@willrich45) https://t.co/dqNAImS52R https://t.co/fAGBlXj51J
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13 Apr 16
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BalancEd Tech
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/400322/poop-like-an-elephant/
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12 Apr 16Cathy Hunt
9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us - Will Richardson #edchat #aussieED https://t.co/LdkZKEaXll
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Kristin Hokanson
Great article to frame conversation about school change
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11 Apr 16thebda
At a recent morning workshop for school leaders at a fairly small New England public school district, about an hour into a conversation focused on what they believed about how kids learn best, an assistant superintendent somewhat surprisingly said aloud what many in the room were no doubt feeling. “When I really try to square …
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practices in our current systems of schooling that “unsettle”
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We know, as I suggested a few weeks ago, that in many cases, these practices are attempting to do “the wrong thing right” rather than “do the right thing” in the first place. But we carry on regardless.
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Lately, I’ve become increasingly frustrated with our unwillingness to acknowledge these “elephants in the (class)room,” if you will, because the new contexts for modern learning forged by the networked world in which we now live are creating an imperative for new ways of thinking about our work in schools.
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’ve been collecting a list of these “things that we don’t really want to talk about in education” in hopes that it might challenge us to bring those elephants out into the open and ignite some much needed conversation about how to deal with them. Here are nine of them:
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rlabonte
Interesting post by @willrich45 "unsettling elephants" in ed - tx... https://t.co/oiMZ82ENXn
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Alice Barr
"there are a number of practices in our current systems of schooling that “unsettle” us, primarily because they don’t comport with what Seymour Papert calls our “stock of intuitive, empathic, common sense knowledge about learning.”"
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Heather Perkinson
9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us https://t.co/Y1J2CdAkiv
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Karen McMillan
9 Elephants in the Classroom that Should Unsettle Us: https://t.co/6hqYDbIUVq via @willrich45 #cpchat #edchat
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sean williams
I find little to disagree with @willrich45 here 9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us https://t.co/C7pWGBlIUv #unsettled
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10 Apr 16
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Sue Dunlop
RT @bradmcurrie: 9 Elephants in the (Class)Room That Should “Unsettle” Us - via @willrich45 #satchat #njed https://t.co/es0nPrghNH
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