2. Rethinking Differentiation
What is our purpose?
What should students take from this
academic
activity/endeavor/semester/year?
What will they know?
What skills will they have?
How will they have changed?
Purpose driven differentiation
3. Rethinking Technology
Task-based
What has to be done?
Environmentally centered
Where, for Who, under what
circumstances
(are environmental constraints valid?)
Student centered
Skills, Comfort, Preferences
Knowledge based
Knowledge of, training with, tools
4. Rethinking Reading
Reading is getting information from a
recorded source into your head.
In a way which allows you to process
and work with that information.
Was Homer literate?
5. Rethinking Writing
Writing is getting information from
your head into forms which others
can access asynchronously.
“Literature” is an idea far beyond
books, and always has been.
Literature is Narrative, and it takes
many forms.
6. Rethinking Space
Why do we teach in rectangles
separated from the world?
Do any of you have this kind of
furniture at home?
What does space do?
7. Rethinking Time
Is this a “learning schedule” or a
“delivery schedule?”
What does the “school day” do, good
and bad?
How do we bring the students’ lives
into school and education into the
students’ lives.
8. Rethinking Connections
How do we join our students to the
world?
How do we help them learn to build
their own connections?
How do we help them learn to build
complex networks safely and well?
9. • Transparent
Learning is Visible
• Iridescent
Learning is Actively Shared
• Choice Driven
Students Learn to Make Choices
by Constantly Making Choices
• Connected
Learning is Not Constricted by Walls
Real, Virtual, or Imagined
• Adaptive
Spaces Adapt to Students
Students Don’t Adapt to Spaces