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Teaching Students to Dialogue « changED
One of the most important lessons I learned this year was that I cannot rely on my students to come into my classroom knowing how to interact with one another. Instead, it is my job to teach them. Below is the handout I use in my classroom to do just that. It is based on a technique called Accountable Talk, and it has changed the way my students interact with one another.
Twenty Five Days to Make a Difference
I challenged everyone who read my blog to TRY to do something every single day during the holiday season to make a SMALL difference in his or her world.
Edmodo is a Twitter for Education - Mashable
Edmodo is best described as Twitter for students and teachers. In reality though, it’s basically a private micro-blogging service for schools with built-in security features that give teachers privacy controls over their virtual classrooms.
Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Letting Go
we’ve reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
- There is a technology war coming. Actually it is already here but most of us haven’t yet notice. It is a war not about technology but because of technology, a war over how we as a culture embrace technology. It is a war that threatens venerable institutions and, to a certain extent, threatens what many people think of as their very way of life. - datruss on 2008-03-30
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we’ve reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.
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It is about honesty. It is about being truthful to our students about the flaws of our educational system. It is essential that we open a dialogue with our children to help them design their educational processes. Together we can do more than simply patch the existing system, and we need to do it soon.
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“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.
Fortnightly Mailing: What to advise a student about using the Web
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Here are 8 things to do that will make life easier, and your studies more fulfilling.
- datruss on 2008-05-19
The Capacity to Lead | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
- Collaboration is key… on the level of all the adults working together in the building AND also in our ability to collaborate and empower our students… as I said, ’students of all ages have the capacity to lead’. - datruss on 2008-05-15
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
WOW: Bringing Science Alive! (wiki) | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss
What happens when you:
Allow students to determine what they need to learn, and then enable students to manage their own learning activities?
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Allow students to determine what they need to learn, and then enable students to manage their own learning activities?**
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If we are continually surprised by what our students are capable of when we empower them with dynamic ways to demonstrate their learning, then isn’t that an indication that we should be expecting more?
I can’t help but think that we should expect more… and that perhaps this is a motivation issue. I don’t mean that “kids today aren’t motivated”! I think that we just don’t motivate them enough, we don’t offer them opportunities to feel empowered about learning, we don’t let them learn for the love of learning. Instead we teach them things that will fit on a test, things that will ‘prepare them for the next grade’.
mrmoses.org » What You’re Missing Out On with Your Asus EEE or Why You Should Have Bought an OLPC XO
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It was pretty amazing. I want to stress again that
she found this game on her own
she learned how to play this game on her own
she’s three - datruss on 2008-04-08
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