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  Those of us who work in education talk a lot about student engagement, but I don’t think that goes far enough. Engagement is certainly better than boredom, but sch
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  - Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
    
    Wed, 30.12.2009 07:27
    
    Ah yes, 'empowerment'.
    
    Such an 80's word.
    
    That's not a bad thing!
    
    It just reminds me of the
    
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    ceolaf about Engagement v. Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
    
    Mon, 28.12.2009 21:06
    
    Mr. Long,
    
    With ELA, there is no
    
    essential text or even
    
    collection of texts. We
    
    have far more [...]
    
    Christian Long about Engagement v. Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
    
    Mon, 28.12.2009 16:11
    
    @ceolaf: Enjoyed reading
    
    your point re: the "NEXT
    
    book" (et al).
    
    No doubt we serve few
    
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    ceolaf about Engagement v. Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
    
    Mon, 28.12.2009 15:54
    
    This, in part, gets to
    
    the difference between
    
    "interesting" and "fun."
    
    More importantly, it is
    
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    Karen Szymusiak about Engagement v. Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
    
    Mon, 28.12.2009 14:11
    
    Your post is thought
    
    provoking. In school, it
    
    feels like the teacher is
    
    the one who sets the
    
    stage [...]
    
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    Sunday, December 27. 2009
    
    Engagement v. Empowerment -- Some Early Thoughts...
    
    [I've written about this in a roundabout way before... I'm hoping this blog post is the beginning of me hashing out -- in writing -- the evolution of my thoughts on this topic.]
    
    In my recent article in Principal Leadership magazine, I wrote this:
    
    Those of us who work in education talk a lot about student engagement, but I don’t think that goes far enough. Engagement is certainly better than boredom, but schools should set the bar for themselves is much higher. What schools should strive for is student empowerment.
    
    For the longest time, the idea of engagement has dominated the conversation in ed-tech, and it's never quite sat right with me. There are a couple of reasons for this... first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and hanging out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school. We lose that battle most of the time almost by definition. (And that's not because kids are kids... it's because kids are people. I love my job, but in any isolated moment, would I rather be hanging out with my kids or my wife or my friends or playing Ultimate or basketball or reading a book of my own choosing? Easy choice.)
    
    We chose engagement because it beats boring. But it's not a goal. And in fact, I think it's created some weird developments in education because too many folks have set it up as a goal, because teachers have been placed in a position where the engagement of the student created a performance aspect to class that, in the end, didn't serve the goal of student learning.
    
    Empowerment feels better to me
  - We chose engagement because it beats boring
  - Empowerment feels better to me
  - first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and hanging out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school.
  - first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and hanging out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school.
  - first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and hanging out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school.
  - at right with me. There are a couple of reasons for this... first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and han
  - at right with me. There are a couple of reasons for this... first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and han
  - at right with me. There are a couple of reasons for this... first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and han
  - ng out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school. We lose that battle most of the time almost by definition. (And that's not because kids are kid
  - For the longest time, the idea of engagement has dominated the conversation in ed-tech, and it's never quite sat right with me. There are a couple of reasons for this... first and perhaps most disconcerting, is that engagement too often got translated to "fun." And that put us in competition with video games and and Facebook and movies and hanging out after school and everything kids do for fun that isn't school. We lose that battle most of the time almost by definition. (And that's not bec
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- And what struck me was how quickly the conversation is evolving. Yes, people still are nervous about using the tools and still want to know about how they are going to make this all work, but days lik
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- One of the things that Shirkey writes about is how the new social tools and the
  powerline graph of user use / success / downloads / etc... has meant that there
  is no longer a high cost of failure.
- there is a natural disincentive to innovate because "more people will remember
  you saying yes to a failure than no to a radical but promising idea
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