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Dealing with New Realities: What Matters Now
The document discusses several ideas related to education, including arguments against evidence-based teaching methods. It notes that while educational research can provide insights, the main problem educators face is not a lack of evidence but a lack of opportunity to exercise professional judgment. It also discusses how experimentation should be part of a teacher's everyday work. Other topics addressed include what matters less now in education, such as grades and standardized tests, as well as the importance of building community and ensuring students learn from others besides their teachers.
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- 1. DEALING WITH NEW REALITIES DeanShareski SeLNO Thunder Bay, ON November 18,2013 http://www.flickr.com/photos/yohann-aberkane/2836258475 WHAT MATTERS NOW
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- 5. Why evidence-based teachingmethods are a bad idea.
- 6. “My argument isnot with educational research but with the imperative of evidence-based education policy. At its best, educational research can provide important insights into the relationship between various social and cultural variables and pedagogic outcomes.” Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
- 7. But the principalproblem educators face today is not the dearth of educational research or a lack of evidence about ‘what works’, but the increasing absence of any opportunity for them to exercise professional judgment and to learn the value of rather what Aristotle call phronesis – the virtue of judgment. Experimentation in education should be part of a teacher’s everyday life. Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
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- 25. “MEASURABLE OUTCOMES MAY BETHE LEAST SIGNIFICANT RESULT OF LEARNING” Dr. Linda McNeil grades
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- 46. “At this age,they get stuck on Wikipedia being the answer to everything and they forget that people can be a really great resource.”
- 47. Research suggests overand over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.
- 48. Research suggests overand over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.
- 49. Research suggests overand over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.
- 51. My goal, asa technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years.
- 52. My goal, asa technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years. “But the internet isn't an individual pursuit, it's something we do with each other. The internet is where people are.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathycassidy/4936218669
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- 65. Digital Dualism we havebeen taught to mistakenly view online as meaning not offline. The notion of the offline as real and authentic is a recent If we can fix this false separation and view the digital and physical as enmeshed, we will understand that what we do while connected is inseparable from what we do when disconnected. invention, corresponding with the rise of the online.
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- 74. Do you regularlychange routine and structure to focus ATTENTION?
- 75. Do you regularlychange routine and structure to focus ATTENTION? How are you practicing MINDFULNESS?
- 76. Do you regularlychange routine and structure to focus ATTENTION? How are you practicing MINDFULNESS? What are you doing to help your students more INTENTIONAL with their thought and actions?
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- 79. The smartest personin the room, is the room. Dave Weinberger cc licensed flickr photo by torres21: http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/484675706/
- 80. Tell that toChris Avenir
- 81. Tell that toChris Avenir Ryerson University sites 3 reasons for the case against him. 1.Learning should be hard. 2.There is no structure of regulation for online behavior and that makes it incompatible with academic work. 3.It is our job to protect academic integrity from any threat. i.e. Unless learning is hard and is directed by certified persons, it’s not valid.
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- 86. What did youlearn from others? What did you contribute learning of others? to the
- 88. “Bringing smart people togetheris an ancient and effective technique for developing ideas. The Net also lets smart people connect and communicate... David Weinberger, Too Big To Know
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- 90. But the Netbrings people together in new and occasionally weird configurations—a weirdness that is now being reflected in how expertise works....” David Weinberger, Too Big To Know
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- 104. How are buildingCOMMUNITY?
- 105. How are buildingCOMMUNITY? Have they experienced “WEIRD CONFIGURATIONS”? Have you?
- 106. How are buildingCOMMUNITY? Have they experienced “WEIRD CONFIGURATIONS”? Have you? How do you insure they LEARN from others beside you?
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- 111. Feel-Bad Education The Cultof Rigor and the Loss of Joy by: Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm "Why are our schools not places of joy?" http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
- 112. Feel-Bad Education The Cultof Rigor and the Loss of Joy by: Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm "Why are our schools not places of joy?" http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
- 113. Feel-Bad Education The Cultof Rigor and the Loss of Joy by: Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm "Why are our schools not places of joy?" http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
- 114. Feel-Bad Education The Cultof Rigor and the Loss of Joy by: Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm I’m appearing to accept an odious premise—namely, that joy must be justified as a means to the end of better academic performance. Not so: It’s an end in itself. http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
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