9. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe
✴ ideas and research are only good useful if
you own them
10. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe
✴ ideas and research are only good useful if
you own them
✴ You Make the Connections
11. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe
✴ ideas and research are only good useful if
you own them
✴ You Make the Connections
✴ Let's start a conversation
12. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe
✴ ideas and research are only good useful if
you own them
✴ You Make the Connections
✴ Let's start a conversation
✴ learner first, teacher second
13. Premise
✴ Describe not Prescribe
✴ ideas and research are only good useful if
you own them
✴ You Make the Connections
✴ Let's start a conversation
✴ learner first, teacher second
✴ We're Grade 4's on the Playground (@ijohnpederson)
20. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four
minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off
switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47
apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing
ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had
hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our
organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and
they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/olpc/2612150726/
23. “People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things
they weren't so crazy about the first time around.”
~Author Unknown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/flossmoorhistory/3642378152
47. With regards to creating 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.
48. With regards to creating 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.
49. With regards to creating 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.
50. With regards to creating 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.
51. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
52. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
53. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/
54. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of 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/
55. Are our classrooms places of joy?
How can technology be instruments of
joy?
63. Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed
in the styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and
the plant goes up
and nobody really
knows how or why, but
we are all like that.
72. “...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.”
73. “...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.”
“As we watch the 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.”
77. “Don’t watch guys teach you. Watch guys learn. They
don’t know the answer. We’re in the journey together.
Now the audience are participants. And we see not only
the result but the process.” Marco Torres
78. “Don’t watch guys teach you. Watch guys learn. They
don’t know the answer. We’re in the journey together.
Now the audience are participants. And we see not only
the result but the process.” Marco Torres
112. The smartest person in the room,
is the room. Dave Weinberger
cc licensed flickr photo by torres21: http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/484675706/
113. Mind Your Own Business
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/5438197592
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4309317689
114. Mind Your Own Business
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/5438197592
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4309317689
115. Mind Your Own Business
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rwentechaney/5438197592
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/359572656/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bionicteaching/4309317689
116.
117. What did you learn from others?
What did you contribute to the
learning of others?
118.
119.
120. “At this age, they get stuck on
Wikipedia being the answer to
everything and they forget that
people can be a really great
resource.”
148. How are you fostering community in your
classroom?
Are you regularly contributing to the
learning of others both locally and
globally? Does it even matter?