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Is Your Boss a Bully? Stop Being the Target. - Conversation Starter - HarvardBusiness.org
Once bullying is successful it rapidly becomes a habit — neurons that fire together, wire together — address it when it begins.
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Once bullying is successful it rapidly becomes a habit — neurons that fire together, wire together — address it when it begins.
Online Learning Communities Flourish Best If Individual Learners Have Self-governance
The research will answer two crucial questions. First, in the learning process, is it better to design courses that are learner centered or community centered? Second, how can the development of critical thinking skills be most effectively developed in an online learning community?
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However, in designing courses, educators must recognize that although self-governance is an individual, internal factor, not all learners will respond well to the online or community-led approach to education. Factors, such as personal goals, communication skills, information technology skills, and study environment, will also affect success.
Things You Really Need to Learn ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
Here, then, is my list. This is, in my view, what you need to learn in order to be successful. Moreover, it is something you can start to learn this year, no matter what grade you're in, no matter how old you are. I could obviously write much more on each of these topics. But take this as a starting point, follow the suggestions, and learn the rest for yourself. And to educators, I ask, if you are not teaching these things in your classes, why are you not?
Half an Hour: An Operating System for the Mind
And the price is this: facts learned in this way, and especially by rote, and especially at a younger age, take a direct route into the mind, and bypass a person's critical and reflective capacities, and indeed, become a part of those capacities in the future.
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The reason I pose these questions in particular is that, while it is necessary (and possible) to teach facts to people, it comes with a price. And the price is this: facts learned in this way, and especially by rote, and especially at a younger age, take a direct route into the mind, and bypass a person's critical and reflective capacities, and indeed, become a part of those capacities in the future.
When you teach children facts as facts, and when you do it through a process of study and drill, it doesn't occur to children to question whether or not those facts are true, or appropriate, or moral, or legal, or anything else. Rote learning is a short circuit into the brain. It's direct programming. People who study, and learn, that 2+2=4, know that 2+2=4, not because they understand the theory of mathematics, not because they have read Hilbert and understand formalism, or can refute Brouwer and reject intuitionism, but because they know (full stop) 2+2=4. -
. There are more facts in the world than anyone could know
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learning • ingenuity • research • policy • design • technology • delight • (+ sailing!)
Stephen Heppell - "Students today live in the 'Nearly Now' "
Weblogg-ed » The Steep “Unlearning Curve”
One of the most challenging pieces of figuring out how to move education forward in a systemic way is “unlearning curve” that we teachers and educators have to go through to even see the possibilities that lay before us. So much of our traditional thinking about personal learning and classroom practice is being challenged by our ability to publish and connect and collaborate primarily because of the opportunities afforded by the Read/Write Web.
Teaching as transparent learning « Connectivism
Prominent and transparent learners
I can’t speak for them, but from reading prominent educational technology bloggers - Will Richardson, Terry Anderson, Stephen Downes, Grainne Conole - I’m left with the impression that they too seek not to proclaim what they know, but rather to engage and share with others as they explore and come to understand technology and related trends.
Watching others learn is an act of learning.
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Prominent and transparent learners
I can’t speak for them, but from reading prominent educational technology bloggers - Will Richardson, Terry Anderson, Stephen Downes, Grainne Conole - I’m left with the impression that they too seek not to proclaim what they know, but rather to engage and share with others as they explore and come to understand technology and related trends.
Watching others learn is an act of learning.
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My argument is this: when we make our learning transparent, we become teachers. Even if we are new to a field and don’t have the confidence to dialogue with experts, we can still provide important learning opportunities to others.
Advice for New Teachers « Ed Tech Journeys
You are an exemplar of what it is to be a learner. It takes courage to learn alongside your students. You do not have to be perfect. You do not have to know everything.
The Schools We Need Presentation - Practical Theory
I had a lot of people come up and tell me that I really challenged them to re-think their ideas about school design, and that's thrilling to me. A few folks asked me about strategies to get educators and facilities folks talking more, which is also really exciting.
Examples of Empowered Students « Ed Tech Journeys
Gatto makes the case for students developing self-knowledge. He believes it is the keystone of a successful life. Pay particular attention to the student who talks about learning being his own responsibility…”teachers just open the door…”
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In my recent post the “Three ‘E’s”, I make the case that the true evolution of public education should track from teachers who ‘Entertain their students’, to teachers who ‘engage’ their students, and finally to teachers who ‘empower’ their students.
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Empowering students is a radical idea. There are lots of obstacles to doing it, including the kids themselves who would rather be told what to do and follow a well-known script. As long as we progress no further than entertainment and engagement; the ownership for the students education falls solely us.
“I speak digital” :: Digital Exposure | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
Basically this is about ‘exposure to’ and ‘integration with’ digital technology at a young age as opposed to ‘adaptation to’ digital technology later on in life.
Top News - Analysis: How multimedia can improve learning
adding visuals to verbal (textual and/or auditory) instruction can result in significant gains in basic or higher-order learning, if applied appropriately. Students using a well-designed combination of visuals and text learn more than students who use only text, the report says.
always learning » Essential Understandings for 21st Century Literacy
All and all, my big three concepts for 21st century literacy are that students and teachers must be:
Effective Learners, Effective Collaborators, Effective Creators
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All and all, my big three concepts for 21st century literacy are that students and teachers must be:
Effective Learners
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learning how to learn,
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injenuity » Teaching and Learning With Twitter 2008
Here are my early thoughts on the learning,
[Worth reading again!]
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Here are my early thoughts on the learning,
Change Agency - Advocating a better education system for the 21st Century.
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“We don’t become healthier by just weighing ourselves every morning.”
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I need multiple measures in order to assess my health.
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The Clever Sheep: Minimally Invasive Education
let's be minimally invasive in allowing the learning to happen, but maximally invasive in ensuring that the problems we present to learners are relevant, compelling and appetizing.
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Far be it for me to suggest that we abandon teaching and leave students to their own devices. Rather, let's be minimally invasive in allowing the learning to happen, but maximally invasive in ensuring that the problems we present to learners are relevant, compelling and appetizing.
Statement of Educational Philosophy | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
- The goal of education is to enrich the lives of students while producing articulate, expressive thinkers and lifelong learners, that are socially responsible, resilient, and active citizens of the world. - datruss on 2008-05-15
A Difference: Academe's Dirty Little Secret
- I guess this is academe's dirty little secret: there are no assessment standards. - datruss on 2008-05-10
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I guess this is academe's dirty little secret: there are no assessment standards.
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"If you really want to ramp up your teaching have your students create content that educates. That will naturally engage them at a higher cognitive level."
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on being a blogger… | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
This kind of learning is so rich, and it is so diametrically opposed to traditional school learning.
Hyperlinks bring learning alive for me… they give me choice. How do we give students choice about their learning in school? How do we empower them as learners?
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