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What's Your Unfair Advantage?
The document discusses the importance of joy, play, and fun in learning. It references several studies and experts that found joyful and playful learning to be more effective, humane, and child-appropriate than rigid, outcomes-focused education. The document suggests that creating fun videos or projects with students, even if just for the joy of it, can have educational benefits and help students develop important skills despite not being tied to strict curricular outcomes. It questions whether teachers will be remembered for their ability to foster joy in learning or merely their expectations and standards.
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- 1. Dean Shareski http://ideasandthoughts.org @shareski What’s YourUnFair Advantage?
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- 13. With regards tocreating a video like that, do you:
- 14. With regards tocreating a video like that, do you: A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some curricular outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed.
- 15. With regards tocreating a video like that, do you: A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some curricular outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed. B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful things with students is important.
- 16. With regards tocreating a video like that, do you: A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some curricular outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed. B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful things with students is important. C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity because you're not sure where it fits with a robust curriculum but still think it's important.
- 17. With regards tocreating a video like that, do you: A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address some curricular outcomes but you might have to look them up later. Fingers crossed. B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful things with students is important. C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity because you're not sure where it fits with a robust curriculum but still think it's important. D.Not do it at all because it’s a waste of time.
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- 20. joy /joi/ Noun 1.the emotion evokedby well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires 2.the expression or exhibition of such emotion
- 21. You know itwhen you See it
- 23. “Joyful Learning waslife” “Playfulness as an intellectual goal is appropriate to learning. It’s more effective, more humane, more childlike.” Seymour Papert
- 25. “...the pattern hasbeen that as children grow up and become more proficient at making sense of the environment in which they live, their world seems to become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need for play.”
- 26. “As we watchthe world move to a state of near-constant change and flux, we believe that connecting play and imagination may be the single most important step in unleashing the new culture of learning.” “...the pattern has been that as children grow up and become more proficient at making sense of the environment in which they live, their world seems to become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need for play.”
- 28. “Failure is free,high-quality research, offering direct evidence of what works and what doesn’t. Cheap failure, valuable as it is on its own, is also a key part of a more complex advantage: the exploration of multiple possibilities.” Clay Shirky
- 29. "If people didnot do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." - Ludwig Wittgenstein
- 36. “It’s got aleg, like me!”
- 42. “one of thebest things you can do for your students is to be an interesting adult” Gary Stager
- 51. What is your“unfair” advantage?
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- 59. Miss C MissB Miss A A new perspective on the effects of first grade teachers on children’s subsequent adult status. Pedersen, E., Faucher, T.A., & Eaton, W.W. (1978). Harvard Educational Review, 48(1) 1–31.
- 60. Miss C MissB Miss A I. Q. Scores at 6th Grade
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- 69. AdultScore 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Miss C MissB Miss A Education Salary Occupation Appearance Family Status Housing
- 70. AdultScore 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Miss C MissB Miss A Education Salary Occupation Appearance Family Status Housing
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- 72. AdultScore 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Miss C MissB Miss A Education Salary Occupation Appearance Family Status Housing
- 73. What was yourteacher’s name?
- 74. Rememberedtheirteacher’sname 0 21 42 63 84 105 Other Teachers MissA What was your teacher’s name?
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- 78. “never lost hertemper” “showed affection” “believed in us” “spend extra hours with them” “high expectations”
- 79. Do you RememberYour First Grade Teacher’s Name?
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- 84. “Joy is theserious business of heaven” C.S. Lewis
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