Education Readings for creative teachers
By Allan Alach
I welcome suggested articles, so if you come
across a gem, email it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz
The scientific case for doodling while taking notes
As I noted last week, Tony Buzan will be saying
‘I told you.’
“Using simple words and pictures helps us to see connections between
pieces of information, get a better idea of what we understand and what we don’t,
and remember what we’ve learned later on. Now I’m on a mission to get students
to draw in every class and every subject—from kindergarten all the way up
through college, and into their professional lives.”
Rejecting “Grit” While Embracing Effort, Engagement
“How does an educator reject the “grit” movement but
maintain an atmosphere in the classroom that encourages effort and engagement,
especially for our most vulnerable students (black, brown, and poor)?
I think I have failed to address this important question fully so
let me do so here.”
An interview with Pasi Sahlberg
I haven’t featured anything about Sahlberg for a
while so….
“Quality learning for me is when you infuse curiosity, active
engagement and meaning-making in the learning situation. From the teacher’s
point of view understanding what the students are thinking and what they know
about things to be learned are critical elements of good learning. In short,
quality learning happens when students actively build links between their
existing knowledge and what is to be learned. Teacher’s ability to really
understand the minds of students is what constitutes good teaching and quality
learning. Curiosity and genuine will to learn more about oneself, other people
and the world around are the outcomes of quality learning for me.”
A Better Way to Read: In the era of attention deficits, the new text
will not be black and white.
How can you adapt this in your classroom? I sure
found the use of colour much easier to read on screen.“The mechanics of getting text into one’s brain require skill apart
from that involved in processing the meaning in that text. As with something
like swimming or skateboarding, it’s a skill where most people can become
proficient, but everyone’s capacity for speed and precision is not equal. But
there are ways to enhance our abilities.”
From Images to Words
“Pictures generate talk, a fact well appreciated by all teachers.
This short post hopes to review some well known ideas as well as give you some
new ones on using images to develop your students’ oral skills and foster
communicative interaction in your lessons.”
Big data’ was
supposed to fix education. It didn’t. It’s time for ‘small data.’
(Thanks to Tara Taylor-Jorgensen for this
article.)
A post by Pasi Sahlberg and Jonathan Hasak:.
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| Beyond the big data - reality |
Contributed by Bruce Hammonds:
‘I have seen
the school of tomorrow. It is here today, in Finland.’
Bruce’s comment:
“More about Finland – could’ve been NZ if only!!”
“As a public
school dad and a university lecturer in rural Finland last semester, I found
Finland’s school system to be an absolute inspiration, and a beacon of hope in
a world that is struggling, and often failing, to figure out how to best
educate our children.Over the past four decades,Finland has climbed to the top
of the Western world in educational performance tests, and widely outpaced its
fellow Nordic nations. Finland has also won recent #1 world rankings for most
efficient education system, most stable nation, greenest country, freest press,
women’s participation in the workforce, strongest property rights, least
corrupt state, and most innovative economy.”
'Beebots' to
teach coding in Nova Scotia classrooms
Bruce’s comment:
“More about coding from Nova Scotia”
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"Some of
the skills that they will be getting through the use of technology are things
like teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving and creativity," said
Casey. She said coding will be applied across a range of subjects to help
students prepare for post-secondary opportunities and an increasingly technical
workforce.’
The Best
Feedback is GATHERED, not GIVEN
Bill Ferriter:
“Ask yourself
this: How often is the feedback process that you are using with students active
and not passive? How often does it turn your students into the main
agents in a process of discovery, using their minds to create meaning and find
sense in their own patterns of performance?”
From Bruce’s ‘goldie oldies’ file:
Cathy Wylie outlines new wave of change for
New Zealand Schools!
Neo Liberal ideology and its impact on education
in NZ...
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| Cathy Wylie |
Smart Schools
Smart Schools by David Perkins – a simple but
powerful message.
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| David Perkins |
Some, he would say, is because ‘We don’t know enough.’Perkins,
though, thinks they’re wrong, ‘We know enough now to do a much better job’. The
problem comes down to this, ‘we are not putting to work what we know.’ 'We do
not have a knowledge gap – we have a monumental use – of - knowledge gap’.Schools
that use what we know he calls ‘smart schools’”
Observation - a basic learning skill
“Schools need to tap into student's curiosity and need to express
ideas. It is this sensory resource of impressions that is called upon by
learners when they come to read. Better still such experiences inspire students
to talk, draw, write and then to read their own ideas. Before the word the
experience is a simple enough idea - the more you notice the more words and
ideas you will develop.”
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