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02 Nov 09

dy/av : 002 : the next-gen lecturer on Vimeo

Saw this a year ago and forgot about it... Dan Meyer at his best... tells a great story about moving to a digital teacher for all the right reasons.

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01 Jul 09

Recipe for a Disruptive Keynote : Stager-to-Go

Much of what is called virtual education is really just bad teaching done on the cheap. Most of what I have seen offered as online courses for students doesn’t rise to the level of a mail-order correspondence course. There may be no lectures, but there is no deep learning to be found either. Teachers don’t know their students and the pedagogical emphasis is on product over process.

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Much of what is called virtual education is really just bad teaching done on the cheap. Most of what I have seen offered as online courses for students doesn’t rise to the level of a mail-order correspondence course. There may be no lectures, but there is no deep learning to be found either. Teachers don’t know their students and the pedagogical emphasis is on product over process.
Don’t tell me that online education delivers individualization. The concept of delivery is itself the enemy of learning. Individualization is not customizing the pace of the multiple choice tests, but knowing the
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- strive to create learner-centered, project-based, collaborative, non-coercive environments in which students learn through a community of practice
- decentralize knowledge
- Our network policies treat teachers and children as either imbeciles or felons. How many of you are unable to use your classroom computers in educationally sound ways because of a network policy created without your input?
  
  We install iPod labs so that children can be marched down the hall once a week for iPod lessons. We chain laptop computers to desks and don’t allow children to take them home. That’s the point of a laptop. You cannot blame such stupidity on four walls of brick and mortar. The blame lies within the bankruptcy of our imaginations.

11 Nov 08

Remote Access: Great Classrooms

"I’ve got an honest question for you.

What are the things that would make a classroom great place to be and a great place to learn? What would the teacher be like? What kinds of things would the students be doing and be involved in? How would the day be spent?
[See Classroom Blog link]

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23 Oct 08

Technology Night - EDL 628: Educational Law and Ethics

The material below is the required watching (what a cool concept, eh) for our class meeting on Oct. 16. That material can be watched at any time, but if nothing else you can use the time we would have been in class to complete the materials below.

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