In this paragraph there are so many "project starters" that one could design an entire "curriculum" to weave them into an advanced problem solving component to school!
HT @Kat_A_Jones
"We work for kids." Great talk via @E_Sheninger https://t.co/SJDMQ350d9 Thanks @Kat_A_Jones for sharing with #idiploma @MViDiploma
"When a student is finished with school and moves into adult life, she will be judged not by her ability to perform on a test of basic skills, but by the quality of her work and character. This holds true regardless of what career or life role she chooses. Quality work and character are the keys to a successful life. So why are they not the primary focus of schools?"
HT @MeghanCureton
As a grade chair, director of studies, and a middle school principal, my yearly shadowing of a student was the best professional learning and empathizing I probably ever did!
HT @romathio
I am volunteering to do this at MVPS! - Teacher spends 2 days as student & is shocked http://t.co/txn9AFQGZL cc: @emilybreite @boadams1
A beautiful post that poses a dichotomous question about our preference for "action" or "understanding," perhaps in effort to inquire as to this recent push in schooling to make and do. For me, both are powerful tools in the toolbox, so to speak, and they are inseparably interwoven.
In another "input" for me this weekend, I heard a podcaster question the idea of "balance." Instead she challenged us to think about integration. Perhaps action and understanding must be better integrated in the learning arc we call "school." Maybe that's what educators are responding to -- a sense of disintegration (what some may call imbalance).
"Our kids learn within a system of education devised for a world that increasingly does not exist."
HT @MeghanCureton & Greg Todd Jones (two colleagues in significantly different worlds who sent me the link at exactly the same time.)
We “learn,” and after this we “do.” We go to school and then we go to work.
This approach does not map very well to personal and professional success in America today. Learning and doing have become inseparable in the face of conditions that invite us to discover.
In this paragraph there are so many "project starters" that one could design an entire "curriculum" to weave them into an advanced problem solving component to school!
As one can tell, I'm catching up on some Will Richardson reading. Great thought and action provokers!
HT @HollyChesser via our MVUpper Diigo Group. Her questions:
Do we teach students to ask what is worth wanting? What does it mean to be an "excellent sheep"? Is it possible to teach how to build a self or become a soul? What would I need to know in order to facilitate that? What is the most compelling purpose of a university education in your mind? Commercial? Cognitive? Moral? What does a moral education look like? If the elite universities have abandoned it, what does that foretell for the institutions attempting to keep pace?
@LFrontiers gets it Wow http://t.co/EM9V9BOCtq @boadams1 @ChipHouston1976 @cliffordshelley @jbrettjacobsen @mvifi
HT @SciTechyEdu
Moving from the McDonaldization of society and schooling to a more authentic learning model that recognizes and utilizes the wonder of deeper learning.
Compilation of readings that Hobsonville Point Secondary School (NZ) found helpful while they were redesigning their school paradigm. From Steve Mouldey @GeoMouldey