Education
Readings
By Allan Alach
I welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email
it to me at allanalach@inspire.net.nz
‘Online
learning has gone down the ‘all fur coat and no knickers’ route. It’s more presentation than
pedagogy, more look and feel than learning. Rather than focus on what makes
learning a success in terms of retention and recall, it allows the learner to
skate across the surface of a thin layer of nicely designed but thin ice. It
often creates the illusion of learning by illustrative graphics/animation that,
as Mayer often showed, actually inhibit rather than help retention.’
‘Rubrics
were all the rage so I thought that by giving all the same project
I
had assigned a recipe.’
What
Are The Benefits Of Learning To Code As A Child?
What
are your thoughts about this? I’m not convinced.
‘So
instead of watching people jump on the coding bandwagon because we said so, we
decided to write an article that discusses the benefits of learning how to
Creativity is a distinct mental state that you can train
“Our
results suggest that creativity can be characterized as a distinct mental
state—one that can be nurtured through training, and that can reflect the
quality of the finished product.”
Teach Kids When They’re Ready
A new book for parents on developing their kids’ sense of
autonomy has some useful insights f
‘The measuring stick is out, comparing one kid to another,
before they even start formal schooling. Academic benchmarks are being pushed
earlier and earlier, based on the mistaken assumption that starting earlier
means that kids will do better later.
We now teach reading to 5-year-olds even though evidence
shows it’s more efficient to teach them to read at age 7, and that any
advantage gained by kids who learn to read early washes out later in
childhood.’
How To Ease Students Into Independent Inquiry Projects
‘Too often teachers enter the inquiry pool in the deep
end, heading straight to Free Inquiry, as I
The 5th ‘C’ of 21st Century Skills? Try Computational
Thinking (Not Coding)
‘There is growing recognition in the education systems
around the globe that being able to problem-solve computationally—that is, to
think logically and algorithmically, and use computational tools for creating
artifacts including models and data visualizations—is rapidly becoming a
prerequisite competency for all fields.’
Creative thinking and the new Digital Technologies
curriculum
In this book, Resnick states that kindergarten (where students are free to follow their own interests and direct their own learning) nurtures creative thinking because it allows students to
prototypes, share them with others, run experiments, and revise these based on
feedback. In contrast, the current education model (which was made in—and
for—the industrial era) restricts teachers’ ability to create lifelong
kindergarten type environments.'
Embracing the Whole Child
Fully engaging students can include using their
interests in lessons, checking in on them emotionally, and being ourselves.
From Bruce’s ‘goldie
oldies’ file:
Linda-Darling Hammond: Lessons for New Zealand from
America
‘“The Flat World and Education’, a book by Linda Darling-Hammond is a must read
for educationalists and politicians who want to develop an alternative to the
technocratic style of education that has been slowly destroying the creativity
of students and teachers in New Zealand
and, in turn, the social fabric of our increasingly troubled society.”
Are we brave enough to live for the future?
‘The past seems a simpler place to think about - the future
is so
Re-imaging education; lessons from Galileo and Brazil.
‘Education stands at a crossroad caught in the lights of
market forces ideology which blinds all but a few to beginnings of a new era
some call the Second Renaissance – a new creative era.’
Time to ditch the technocrats!!
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