Learning to Change-Changing to Learn August 27, 2010
I jotted down some of the comments that most appealed to me:
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Come together to do joint projects, to social network, to do some of the other enrichment things.
We have a classroom system, where we could have a community system.
Opening the door to resources.... opportunities... shift academic experience... better prepared for life.
Start with the teacher. If I want my students to make global connections, then I'm going to give the tools to the teachers first - opportunities to connect with other teachers.
If we simply apply standards, standardised testing.... economically a foolish idea.... jobs these kids will be having do not call for right-answer vending-machine approach.
Local creativity and innovation... calls on artistic abilities, abilities of synthesis, understanding context, working in teams, being multidisciplinary, multilingual, multicultural.
Coin of the realm is not memorising facts they're going to need to know for the rest of their lives. The coin of the realm will be do you know how to find the information, know how to validate it, synthesise it, leveraging it, communicate it, collaborate with it, problem solved with it. That's the 21st century set of literacies and it looks a lot different from the set most of us were raised in.
Schools are producing ingenious, collaborative, gregarious, brave children who care about stuff like their culture. Around the world people are testing out the ingredients of what makes it work... being assembled into some stunning recipes... death of education but dawn of learning.
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I appreciate the way it brings together a number of respected voices. I hope to respond to some of the idea expressed in the video. But even if I don't - at least we have this collection of wise opinions to point to.