How Student Centered Is Your Classroom? In the education world, the term student-centered classroom is one we hear a lot. And many educators would agree that when it comes to 21st-century learning, having a student-centered classroom is certainly a best practice. Whether you instruct first grade or university students, take some time to think about where you are with creating a learning space where your students have ample voice, engage frequently with each other, and are given opportunities to make choices. Guiding Questions Use these questions to reflect on the learning environment you design for students: In what ways do students feel respected, feel valued, and feel part of the whole group? Balancing Teacher Roles So let's talk about that last question, and specifically, direct instruction versus facilitation. Facilitation: open-ended questioning, problem posing, Socratic seminar, and guided inquiry Direct instruction: demonstration, modeling, and lecturing Coaching: providing feedback, conferencing, and guided practice
The New Art of the Possible | Knowledge Insights Embracing new technology and having an open and curious mindset is the key for not only growth but survival in every industry today. I cannot think of one industry that has not felt the distributive effects of new technologies and the rate of social adaptation. I deliberately don’t call it adoption as this is a term for “Systems of Record”. We now have “Systems of Engagement” (thanks Geoffrey Moore) and they are defined by our social interaction and creativity. I recently read a fascinating post by Ayelet Baron that brilliantly encapsulates the essence of what we are seeing. Ayelet asks these disruption questions: Are you in a dying industry? In her vision of the future of work and the blurring of industry lines, Ayelet makes a comparison between what’s happening in the music industry and publishing. Here is Ayelet’s full post: Debra Fox Like this: Like Loading...
Flipped classroom, flipped teaching vai flipped learning? Flipped classroom -ajattelumalli on yksi tämän hetken kuumimmista pedagogisista puheenaiheista. Flipped-malli on yksi sulautuvan oppimisen toteutustapa, joka on perinteisesti ymmärretty videoiden hyödyntämisenä teoriaopetuksen metodina. Oppijat tutustuvat teoriaan itsenäisesti etänä, jolloin lähiopetukseen jää enemmän aikaa keskustelulle ja ongelmanratkaisulle. BETT-messuilla Lontoossa 31.1.2013 flipped class-ajatuksen pioneerit, yhdysvaltalaiset Aaron Sams ja Jonathan Bergmann, luennoivat opetusmallin kehittymisestä. Miksi flipped classroom -ajatusta pitäisi pohtia? Samsin ja Bergmannin mielestä aiheen tärkeyttä voidaan lähestyä kysymällä: "Mikä on paras tapa käyttää aikaa, kun opettaja on oppilaan kanssa kasvotusten?" Kysymys havahdutti kuulijoita, sillä edellisessä luennossa oli juuri korostettu sitä että oppimista tapahtuu eniten silloin, kun opettaja ja oppilas ovat kasvokkain. Flipped-ajattelun kehittyminen teoriassa ja käytännössä 1. 2. 3. 4. Pohdinta Lisätietoa: FT Johannes Pernaa
12 Interesting Ways To Start Class Tomorrow 15 Interesting Ways To Start Class Tomorrow by Terry Heick Ed note: this post has been updated and added-to from a 2013 post You love teaching, your love your classroom, you love your students (most of them), but you’re tired. This doesn’t mean you’re not willing to work, but it makes the fountain of good ideas run a bit dry at times, especially towards the end of the year. So here are 15 ways to start class tomorrow. 1. All students stand in circle. Also, pouting or talking during counting results in elimination from future rounds. 2. 60 Second Talk Students are chosen to give 60 second talks on anything, from self-selected topics they are passionate about, have specific expertise in, etc., to topics given from teacher. 3. Debate Beyonce versus Rihanna, colored pencils versus crayons, recent EU accusations against Google, self-driving cars versus light rail and bicycles, or the best way to break up with a girlfriend or boyfriend. 4. 5. Tweets are short, quick, and to the point. 6. 7. 8.
14 Bloom's Taxonomy Posters For Teachers 14 Brilliant Bloom’s Taxonomy Posters For Teachers by TeachThought Staff Bloom’s Taxonomy is a useful tool for assessment design, but using it only for that function is like using a race car to go to the grocery–a huge waste of potential. In an upcoming post we’re going to look at better use of Bloom’s taxonomy in the classroom, but during research for that post it became interesting how many variations there are of the original work. While a handful of the charts below only show aesthetic changes compared to others, most are concept maps of sorts–with graphic design that signifies extended function (power verbs), detail (clear explanations), or features of some sort (Bloom’s Taxonomy tasks by level). The follow simple, student-centered Bloom’s graphics were created by helloliteracy! The following “Bloom’s pinwheel” comes from Kelly Tenkley and ilearntechnology.com:
6 Ways to Honor the Learning Process in Your Classroom Roughly put, learning is really just a growth in awareness. The transition from not knowing to knowing is part of it, but that's really too simple because it misses all the degrees of knowing and not knowing. One can't ever really, truly understand something any more than a shrub can stay trimmed. There's always growth or decay, changing contexts or conditions. Yes, this sounds silly and esoteric, but think about it. In fact, so little of the learning process is unchanging. Design, engineering, religion, media, literacy, human rights, geography, technology, science -- all of these have changed both in form and connotation in the last decade, with changes in one (i.e., technology) changing how we think of another (i.e., design). And thus changing how students use this skill or understanding. And thus changing how we, as teachers, "teach it." The Implications of Awareness The implications of awareness reach even farther than that, however. The Learning Process: From Theory into Practice 1.
Wisdom Networks! Opportunity? What? Why? Where? How? | Wisdom Networks Wisdom Networks crowd create Network Society and accelerate the Wisdom of Crowds (r)evolution for health, education, equity market, innovation, organisations, countries and regions. Everyone can see and act on every “thing”, everywhere, anytime. Telewisdom accelerates “The Shift” to the next stage of economic development by organising people, processes and things across the “Internet of Everything”. Opportunity? The reality is that global startups are created fast – sometimes in a weekend sprint. What? Wisdom Networks organise the wisdom and effort of the community by exchanging wisdom (knowledge plus action) between people via mobile devices. THE SHIFT! Information is everywhere, but there is no wisdom. Where? Social networks achieved global telewisdom in social communities in 7 years. How? Wisdom Networks put all 6 elements of wisdom in the cloud (not just 2) and come “Over the Top” (OTT) to aggregate and provide telewisdom for every thing in the “Internet of Everything”. Next steps?
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Great Concept Map on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Yesterday while I was working on " the 21st century pedagogy chart " I came across this excellent graphic on Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. I am pretty sure this will be a great addition to the resources I have been compiling in the section called Bloom's Taxonomy for Teachers here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.This fabulous work has been done by Andrew Churches in which he relates higher order thinking skills included in Blooms Taxonomy to different digital skills. The purpose is to highlight the importance of technology and digital skills in today's learning. Click on the image to enlarge it
4 Easy, Non-Academic Ways to Increase Student Achievement - Inspiration4kidz There is quite a bit of recent research pointing to the idea that psychological interventions in learning environments can have a great impact on achievement. Eric Jensen summarizes some of this evidence in his article Your Students’ Number One Life Skill. While the idea of social emotional learning is complex, there are some easy ways to implement these ideas in the classroom and they can have an enormous impact on student success. 1. Make it clear that mistakes are a natural part of learning and not an indication of intelligence. 2. Implement a system that acknowledges behaviors like persistence, self-control or curiosity. I want to acknowledge that some classroom management strategies rely on extrinsic rewards. 3. 4. None of these strategies are brand new or especially innovative but I don’t think that there is an understanding of just how dramatic the impact can be on student achievement when these small interventions are used.
NZ Interface Magazine | Eight habits of highly effective 21st ce We hear a lot about the 21st century learner – but what about the 21st century teacher? Andrew Churches investigates what makes them succeed. What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a successful 21st century educator? Well, we know they are student-centric, holistic, and they’re teaching about how to learn as much as teaching about the subject area. We know, too, that they must be 21st century learners as well. But highly effective teachers in today’s classrooms are more than this – much more. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.