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08 Jan 10

Langwitches Blog » Backchanneling with Elementary School Students

Another great description of a wonderful elementary classroom project by Silvia Tolisano

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http://www.commoncraft.com/protecting-reputations-video

Aimed at young or inexperienced web users, this video explains the long term risks of sharing inappropriate information online.

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Global projects: The three-headed solution | Whip Blog

  • I still think it comes down to three critical questions when it comes to our children’s learning; what are we doing every day to a) create information artisans who are able to locate, harvest, assess, connect, create and communicate information in a digital, networked form, b) support them in developing and managing their own personal learning networks and c) help them understand and develop their own digital footprint, developing and managing their own personal brand.

Learner-Centered vs. Curriculum-Centered Teachers: Which Type Are You? - TeacherVision.com

  • How do you prepare?
  • Some people talk about running a child-centered classroom but actually have
    not broken from the model they were exposed to as students.

Learner-Centered vs. Curriculum-Centered Teachers: Which Type Are You? - TeacherVision.com

  • Teachers who adhere to learner-centered classrooms are influenced strongly
    by constructivism. Constructivism holds that prior knowledge forms the foundation
    by which new learning occurs (Piaget and Inhelder, 1969). Because people and
    their experiences are different, they arrive at school with varying levels of
    proficiency. A student is challenged according to his or her individual zone
    of proximal development (Vygotsky, 1986). The difference between a student's
    actual developmental level and his or her potential is the zone of proximal
    development (ZPD). Good instruction matches each child's ZPD.


    Teachers who adhere to curriculum-centered classrooms are influenced greatly
    by the standards-based movement. All students are taught the same body of knowledge.
    Regardless of variations in developmental levels, all children are exposed to
    the same content in the same time period. The objective is to ensure that there
    will be no academic gaps in what is taught.

  • In this framework students are compared with one another. Student success is
    judged in comparison with how well others do.

The 21st Century Learning Initiative : The History of Education 2000 and the Explanation for the Need for the 21st Century Learning Initiative

"By 1988, with increasing pressure with every subsequent year, Education 2000 became evermore isolated by a whole series of legislative proposals made by a Government whose educational policy was increasingly to become prescriptive, centralized, and based on assumptions that originated in the 1950s. Teacher education courses were reorganized to focus far more heavily on subject content and classroom practice, at the cost of a hefty reduction in all aspects of the course dealing with educational theory, purpose and philosophy. Her Majesty's Inspectorate was abolished as being too much on "the side of the teachers," and replaced by a more rigorous assessment and evaluation system. "There is no such subject as education," said Margaret Thatcher, "only subjects to be taught.""

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education Britian reform

  • By 1988, with increasing pressure with every subsequent year, Education 2000 became evermore isolated by a whole series of legislative proposals made by a Government whose educational policy was increasingly to become prescriptive, centralized, and based on assumptions that originated in the 1950s. Teacher education courses were reorganized to focus far more heavily on subject content and classroom practice, at the cost of a hefty reduction in all aspects of the course dealing with educational theory, purpose and philosophy. Her Majesty's Inspectorate was abolished as being too much on "the side of the teachers," and replaced by a more rigorous assessment and evaluation system. "There is no such subject as education," said Margaret Thatcher, "only subjects to be taught."
  • The application of "market principles" quickly destroyed the concept of a community of learners that extended beyond the school and effectively turned each school against its "rival"; a preoccupation with the assessment of pupils as a way of monitoring teachers led to even more "teaching for the test," and the relegation of information technology to that of a vocational skill.

Networking Reconsidered - John Hagel III and John Seely Brown - Harvard Business Review

Our focus on social networks has a very different emphasis. In fact we would argue that classical networking approaches tend to undermine rather than support the value of social networks.
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In this world, it is not who you know, but what you learn from, and with, who you know. Contacts are of very limited value in this changing world — the name of the game is how to participate in knowledge flows

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