It has been years since I have been as excited and as humbled by the amount of work, resources and knowledge that are all becoming available to me today.
What is running through my head:
Just in time learners
Learning the skill and the will (to learn continuously)
Why transmit academic content that students can just look up on the internet.
Content knowledge, Skill to achieve that knowledge, Will to seek out, motivation, to be able to persevere and obtain that knowledge
What skills matter most today? Critical thinking, collaboration, accessing and analyzing information
“I can teach them the content, but what I can’t teach them is how to analyze it”
Where does knowledge lie?
What is the role of content?
How does this apply to my practice? How does this apply to my classroom?
How can I use this with my students? How relevant is this for elementary education?
Hey Bart,
My last post was looking at how the big, lofty ideals of 21st Century Learning could get distilled down to 3 main ideas that could apply to my own teaching practice
http://cohort21.com/ckirsh/
I actually used some of the ideas that Laura Gini-Newman shared during our last PD session at BSS. I would love to hear your thoughts and if you think these pillars actually apply to your work with the primary years.
Hi Bart,
Thanks for this post here. I am wondering if you’re any closer to answering these questions posed above? These are great questions to use to help you narrow your focus for your action plan. From my perspective, it looks like you’re really interested in exploring the impact that technology has had on education, and also what that means to classroom practices.
I look forward to see you this weekend,
garth.