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Rethinking Learning in a Connected World
Dean Shareski #eysmp
Sudbury, ON October 28, 2014
Rethinking Learning in a Connected World
Rethinking Learning in a Connected World
How is Learning
Different in 2014?
There’s never been a better time to be a learner
There’s never been a better time to be a learner
And a more challenging time for schools
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DISRUPTION
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“When a 14 year old kid can blow up your business in his spare time, not because he hates you but because he loves you, then you got a problem.”
Chris Avenir
Ryerson University sites 3 reasons for the case against him.
1.Learning should be hard.
2.There is no structure of regulation for online behavior and that makes it incompatible with academic work.
3.It is our job to protect academic integrity from any threat.
i.e. Unless learning is hard and is directed by others, it fails to meet the standard for academic rigor.
Chris Avenir
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BHQBig Hairy Questions
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“This is not what I signed
up for”
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“I waited fourteen years to do something that I should have done my first year of teaching: shadow a
student for a day.”
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Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.
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Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.
High School students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90% of their
classes.
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Students sit all day, and sitting is exhausting.
High School students are sitting passively and listening during approximately 90% of their
classes.
You feel a little bit like a nuisance all day long.
The Role of the Teacher is Changing: Phil Schlechty
The Role of the Teacher is Changing: Phil Schlechty
Instructor
Designer Guide
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IT’S TIME TO RETHINK
EVERYTHING
IT’S TIME TO RETHINK
SOME THINGS
Rethinking Literacy
What does it mean to be a literate person in 2014?
What does it mean to be a literate person in 2014?
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Consumption CreationReading
Listening
Viewing
Writing
Speaking
Representing
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WritingSpeaking
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Consumption CreationReading
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Viewing
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If a student goes a year without creating a video...
If a student goes a year without creating a video...
it would be like going a year without writing a story
I’m eating bacon
I like bacon
I have skills eating bacon
This is where I eat bacon
Watch me eating bacon
Here’s a vintage photo of my bacon
Here’s a recipe with bacon
I work for Google and I eat bacon
I’m listening to music about bacon
Rethinking Community
Rethinking Community
What is the role of community in the classroom?
What is the role of community in the classroom?
“It still shocks me, the extent to which we continue to dumb down the affordances of the Web and technology for authentic learning in the service of keeping the system grinding no matter what the obstacle.”
Will Richardson
“Mind-Your-Own-Business Learning”
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“Can you send me all the assignments ahead of time?”
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“Time spent on community is always time well spent”
Tracy Carpenter#DEStreamathon
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
•Learning is Social and Connected
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
•Learning is Social and Connected•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
•Learning is Social and Connected•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed•Learning is Shared and Transparent
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
•Learning is Social and Connected•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed•Learning is Shared and Transparent•Learning is Rich in Content and Diversity
BIG IDEAS OF LEARNING
•Learning is Social and Connected•Learning is Personal and Self-Directed•Learning is Shared and Transparent•Learning is Rich in Content and Diversity•Learning Ought to be Joyful
Give them Their Own Space
Connect in Multiple Ways
Connect in Multiple Ways
Connect in Multiple Ways
Connect in Multiple Ways
Connect in Multiple Ways
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Be a Connector
“The Lazy Professor”
Help them Build a Network
Expectations of Community
“Class size only matters if the teacher does everything”
Mark Prensky
Expectations of Community
Expectations of Community
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What role does research play in our current practice?
Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
“My argument is not with educational research but with the imperative of evidence-based education policy. At its best, educational research can provide important insights into the relationship between various social and cultural variables and pedagogic outcomes.”
Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
But the principal problem educators face today is not the dearth of educational research or a lack of evidence about ‘what works’, but
rather the increasing absence of any opportunity for them to exercise professional judgment and to learn the value of what Aristotle call phronesis – the virtue of judgment.
Experimentation in education should be part of a teacher’s everyday life.
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“Books are designed to contain all the information required to stop inquiries within the book’s topic. But now that our medium can handle far more ideas and information, and now that it is a connective medium (ideas to ideas, people to ideas, people to people), our strategy is changing. And that is changing the very shape of knowledge.”
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Reflection
My Learning Project
My Learning Project
My Teaching Staff
SAGE ON THE STAGE
SAGE ON THE STAGE
GUIDE ONTHE SIDE
GUIDE ONTHE SIDE
MEDDLER IN THE MIDDLE
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