Students need to be allowed to create, experiment, and make mistakes! Students need to communicate beyond their devises. Students need to move, not sit.
All these videos remind me of the joy my students are expressing at coming into the 7th grade. Last year's teachers are very proud of their paperless classrooms. All work is done on Chromebooks. The students hate it, and their former teachers complain of their behavior issues- They wont sit still! Too bad these teachers are using technology just like Mr. Ditto from Teachers (a 1980s movie). My students rejoice at paper and pencils! Using technology just to use it is useless. I sometimes let slip that technology needs to be a tool, but this it wrong. Technology needs to be a stocked tool chest... allowing students and teachers to use the right tool for the right job. Don't forget that every good tool chest still contains paper and pencils. My notes as I watched the videos: Adora Svitak: Teachers should learn from students. Do not overly restrict, have high expectations! Support ideas. Let kids “grow up to blow you away!” Dalton Sherman: believe in the students and they will rise to the occasion. Ken Robinson: learning revolution… know your talent and let it flourish. Education squashes natural talents! Reform is no use, it is “improving a broken model.” We need a revolution. We are too often stopped by the “tyranny of common sense.” Education needs to feed our spirit, our energy. Human teaching needs to be like agriculture, make it so that students can grow! Ken Robinson RSA: ADHA… grows with our system… arts are losing and that leads to aesthetic experiences (fully alive) being lost. Divergent thinking: the capacity for creativity… an ability to see many possible answers, to see lots of possible answers. Most great learning happens in groups! A Vision From Today’s Students: loved the end with the chalkboard forcing the teacher to move… no, “encourages.”
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9/17/2016 05:47:11 pm
I enjoyed your thoughts on the videos. I especially like your point that using technology just to use technology is pointless. There is a time and a place, and there needs to be a variety of uses. Also, like any other lesson, it needs to be tightly planned out. There needs to be a plan to use the technology, not just putting them on google docs and calling it a day. Technology is engaging only if it is made that way. Thank you for your thoughts. Karly
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9/18/2016 02:18:47 pm
You bring a valuable perspective to the technology vs. paper-and-pencils situation. Last year, my colleague and I piloted an online reading program at our school called Curriculet. Since it was a new platform for us, we continually checked in with students, asking them to reflect on the process as we read a novel together. We were surprised at the consistency of our students' answers: from beginning to end, our classes were divided on whether they preferred reading online or reading in our class paper copies. It seemed that both teachers and students appreciated the chance to stretch our "transliteracy", but also valued having a choice in the matter. In the end, we read about half the time on computers and half the time on paper. The computers offered great real-time assessments and commentary, and paper offered a tactile and even calming experience. Having a reflective and ongoing conversation with students about which method they preferred was very valuable for them, as they learn how to be more "meta" regarding their learning styles. It also helped me to see, as you and Karly have mentioned, that there is a time and place for high- and low- technology.
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todd mills
9/19/2016 05:18:10 pm
The computers offered great real-time assessments and commentary, and paper offered a tactile and even calming experience. ...
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