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David Warlick’s K12 Online Conference Keynote 2006 | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
I really like what Warlick says here, and as a classroom teacher I know how much fun those ’side trips’ can be. A great metaphor here, on the theme of learners navigating on their own, is the teacher as the compass. We point in a direction, (not necessarily the direction that the student is going), and we are a reference point or guide to the learning. As students sail (rather than ride the rails) they must choose their destination, (what they want to learn), and tack and adjust their path as they go… using the teacher as a compass that keeps them on their ‘learning’ course.
The Connected Classroom: Supporting Reluctant Swimmers-or letting them drown?
There has been talk in the edtech community for a long time that we need to stop talking about the tools, but I disagree.
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I have to wonder how many folks would jump in at all if they were afraid of the water. As David Truss points out, "too many people fear drowning and never get into the pool” and that in most Teacher Ed programs the amount of technology skill they leave the program with seems to be optional... to me that's like throwing a non-swimmer into the deep end.
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I spend a day or two, sometimes a week “teaching folks to swim.” I give them the skills and we go SLOW.
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Durff's Blog: Swim Instructors or Swimmers?
My point is, how far are we to go with other educators? If we instruct on the technological skills, isn't our responsibility done? Isn't it the responsibility of individual educators to swim?
It seems that too many, I have met them too, educators lack the drive to do things for themselves. We all went to college where we had to study on our own, write papers on our own, take tests on our own.
I fail to understand the mindset.
TEFLtastic » Guest piece- Start using technology in your classes, or just go ahead and retire!
However while they continue to be afraid, they’re missing out on what’s on the other side and in the end, consoling themselves with friends who are equal Luddites, will find themselves replaced by the those who can.
open thinking » Visualizing Open/Networked Teaching
Open teaching is described as the facilitation of learning experiences that are open, transparent, collaborative, and social. Open teachers are advocates of a free and open knowledge society, and support their students in the critical consumption, production, connection, and synthesis of knowledge through the shared development of learning networks.
Tudor-Virgil Constantin: Teaching effectively stock markets
Teaching effectively stock markets
Once upon a time in a place overrun with monkeys, a man
appeared and announced to the villagers that he would
buy monkeys for $10 each.
CCK08 Dropout | Clarify Me
I guess that as I approach my one year anniversary of building my on-line personal learning network I’ve gotten used to the fact that you can’t read everything. You can’t watch everything. I feel like I’m standing at the river’s edge; there is a constant flow of interesting information (with the occasional bits of flotsam) and if you try to catch everything you’ll drown.
It’s Not About the Technology :: I was thinking… - Learning to be me.
computers can support learners, open doors to a world of possibilities and learning opportunities and global thinking. They can provide a chance for every child to learn their own way and construct their own knowledge. They can facilitate conversations with other people and other children around the world. They can knock down the isolation of a classroom’s four walls and invite in the voices, experience and passion of the entire planet.
Christopher D. Sessums :: Blog :: Ways of Seeing: Metaphors for Learning and Teaching
One item I am keen on sharing is a new weblog I've been working on. I have always wanted to write a book about metaphors associated with learning and teaching.
INDEXED - a ‘graph’ is worth a thousand words | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
Jessica Hagy uses graphs to make sense of our world. She is deft at finding hidden truths in places we all look at, but are blind to.
Accountability, Testing, Weighing the Pig, and Healthy Lifestyles at Change Agency
“We don’t become healthier by just weighing ourselves every morning.”
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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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DigiTales - The Art of Telling Digital Stories
- Visit the storymaking steps, tools, and the featured StoryKeeper's Gallery designed to inspire and jump start beginners. Browse Bernajean's Blog and Podcasts sharing the continuous journey and lessons learned along the way of coaching others in the art of digital storytelling. - datruss on 2008-05-15
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Visit the storymaking steps, tools,
and the featured StoryKeeper's
Gallery designed to inspire and
jump start beginners. Browse Bernajean's
Blog and Podcasts sharing the continuous
journey and lessons learned along
the way of coaching others in the
art of digital storytelling.
“Some Assembly Required” | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss
My class is assembling a lego model without the instructions, or even the image of the final product on the front of the box. This isn’t a problem for the creative/motivated students; they will assembly a better model in ways that I could never have ‘instructed‘ them… but some students need structure, they have been fed it for years and expect it (even from yours truly - this isn’t finger pointing, it is observation).
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My class is assembling a lego model without the instructions, or even the image of the final product on the front of the box. This isn’t a problem for the creative/motivated students; they will assembly a better model in ways that I could never have ‘instructed‘ them… but some students need structure, they have been fed it for years and expect it (even from yours truly - this isn’t finger pointing, it is observation).
I let technology supersede pedagogy.
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How to deal with “structure dependent” students (most of them) is one of my concerns. They get puzzled when you don’t provide the expected, clear and well organized instructions. I love playing that game, though.I have to admit that I have failed many times. The worst was to feel frustrated and give up. Then I learnt to insist and be patient (both things at the same time). Success is not guaranteed, but when it finally happens the feeling of achievement the students get is so rewarding that it’s worth the “discomfort”. If students have the chance of making decisions, they have an experience and you also have an experience.
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Phosphorescent Posts: metaphor surfing for bright ideas | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss
This reminds me of one of my favorite metaphors I use with students, John Heider’s interpretation of Lao Tzu’s Ripple Effect found in The Tao of Leadership. Our ripples of influence may be far-reaching, but often our greatest influence can be closest to us, where our ripple can be felt most.
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This reminds me of one of my favorite metaphors I use with students, John Heider’s interpretation of Lao Tzu’s Ripple Effect found in The Tao of Leadership
. Our ripples of influence may be far-reaching, but often our greatest influence can be closest to us, where our ripple can be felt most.
“I’m a mop not a sponge”: Metaphors all the way down | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss
“Metaphors may create realities for us, especially social relations. A metaphor may thus be the guide for future actions.” George Lakoff & Mark Johnson
“The more we understand metaphor, the more we understand ourselves.” Dan Pink
We try to get ‘all the way down’ to the bottom of things when really what we need is insight into things.
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“Metaphors may create realities for us, especially social relations. A metaphor may thus be the guide for future actions.” George Lakoff & Mark Johnson
“The more we understand metaphor, the more we understand ourselves.” Dan Pink
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In schools we tend to be so literal and focused on what is ‘Right’ or ‘True’. Metaphors help define us, they help us create meaning… and they even help us identify who we are, and what is important to us.
The digital native, the digital naive, and the digital divide. | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
I haven’t written too many quotable quotes in my day… but I like this one:
I come from the Batman era, adding items to my utility belt while students today are the Borg from Star Trek, assimilating technology into their lives.
Stone Soup | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
In keeping with “the Stone Soup” metaphor, the teacher brings the cauldron, builds the fire, puts the “magic” stone into the boiling water and trusts that eventually the audience will engage enough to bring their own hidden ingredients to the process.”
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The content of the knowledge being delivered is largely known, and often, grounded in theory. What seems to be missing is twofold: what are participants saying and how are they saying it? How is the learning task accomplished, and how are the group’s dynamics facilitated to allow the learning to unfold?
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“Trust the process” and “Be open to outcome,” accurately describe the value-base of the primary Instructor’s teaching approach.
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