Essential Questions for the Tech Course 2013

• Essential Questions for the course: 

1. How will I as a teacher move toward developing my own personalized learning network?
2. How will student demonstrations of learning be more personalized in my classroom?
3. How can I design individualized learning opportunities that fulfill content expectations?
4. How do I balance learning the tool and using the tool for learning?
5. How can I share/celebrate my students’ work with a broader audience?

1. I have returned to Twitter to follow people that have the same passion for learning and technology, I am using Digoo as a way of collaborating with my students and colleagues, and I have joined the Wolfram Community to get more information regarding Mathematica.

EdCafe Takeaway

With organic systems if the conditions are right there is growth.
Education is an organic system.
The culture of a school is essential for learning.

Notes: from Sir Ken Robinson TED talk

Notes: from Sir Ken Robinson TED talk

Cultural myths: Americans do not get irony.

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND = IRONY

In some parts of this country there is 60 % drop out.

Points:

• Disengaged students

• Humans are diverse in nature

My note: My tree children are completely different and so are my children.

NCLB is focus on a model of conformity rather than diversity.

10% of kids are being diagnostic with ADHD

Children suffer from childhood

Children benefit most from learning .......

Creativity is essential for learning

Great teacher are about learning

The whole point of education is about learning.

Difference between engaging in task versus fulfilling a task.
If students are not learning, then you are engage in your job of teaching but you are not fulfilling it.

Testing should not be the end of education but a tool of supporting learning.

• Human life is inheritable creative

In Finland there is not standardized testing. Finland does not have a drop out rate.

The culture of the school is essential.

The culture of a school is very influential on learning.

With organic systems if the conditions are right there is growth.
Education is an organic system.

Quote from Benjamin Franklin:
"There three sorts of people in this world: there are people who are movable, people who are not movable, and people who are willing to move."