Think Different at Students 2.0
Think of the wealth of talent that is being and has been squandered due to this system. How many people would have become the next great composer if they had been given just that little bit more leeway?
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blog of proximal development » Blog Archive » Conversation with Pre-Service Teachers - The Set Curriculum
“I need 89% on this assignment to get into Queen’s.”
That’s when I realized that, to Julia - one of the best students in my class, one of the best writers - writing was really only about getting a grade. It had no other meaning or purpose. All of her learning was reduced to one thing - the need to achieve a certain average.
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What comes around | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
The task was simple: Have your advisory pick an issue in the school and then create a video that promotes awareness of the problem and/or a solution to the problem.
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Harnessing our advantage | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
...it highlights some of the tools that students used to empower their own learning.
And that brings us back to the idea of leadership. We need to be empowered learners if we want to lead other learners. We need to create an environment that fosters doing new things in new ways, like many cutting edge organizations do.
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Most Influential | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
We are influenced by so many things in our lives. Identifying what has a significant influence on us can be difficult. Here are two things that I believe can be categorized as most influential… and they both happened Monday.
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Young Minds, Fast Times: The Twenty-First-Century Digital Learner | Marc Prensky | Edutopia
One of the strangest things in this age of young people's empowerment is how little input our students have into their own education and its future.
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Dear Middle School...
Thanks for making me really hate, fine I wont say hate–dislike with a passion– you guys. After punishing me for being a good dancer, a good student, locking me in the school one time while I was trying to do make up one of YOUR tests,
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How to Prevent Another Leonardo da Vinci | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
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Blogging with students requires biting your [digital] tongue | David Truss :: Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts
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Wandering Ink
Coffee-addicted, wanderlust-afflicted, existential teen writer/debater seeks an intellectual escape and the complete works of Voltaire. Static characters and stilted dialogue need not apply. Ratpack fan a plus.
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ePals Global Community
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Newly Ancient
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Video in the Classroom.com -- Integrating Video Production in the Elementary Classroom and Beyond
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Teaching the Process of Design (or, making student videos interesting) at Students 2.0
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