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Archive for May 2012
What Students Want
A few days ago, Katrina shared with us a post about listening to what students tell us by their actions. The post opened with a question someone tweeted a few weeks ago: Which students should get priority, the disruptive ones or the ones who want to learn? I understand the frustration behind the question. As a teacher working with a class full of students, some eagerly listening and others willfully disrupting, there’s a pull between where to focus energy and devote attention. With that understanding, I challenge the underlying premise …
Future of Education Podcast: LessonCast Team with Steve Hargadon
Future of Education Podcast with Steve Hargadon
We Need to Listen
We need to listen to what students tell us by their actions. Several weeks ago someone tweeted the question about which students should get priority—the disruptive ones or the ones who want to learn. My response was that we’re asking the wrong questions. We need to ask, why is this student being disruptive? Is this child asking us for help in dealing with difficult situations in his or her life? Is there something we can change about our curriculum and/or instruction that would better meet the needs of this child? …
What Is Transdisciplinary Literacy and Instruction?
With the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), my recent work has focused on literacy across the content areas. As part of this work I’ve been asked to distinguish between content literacy, interdisciplinary literacy and transdisciplinary, so I thought I’d share the definitions I’ve been developing. Background: The CCSS emphasize the integrated nature of reading, writing, research, speaking, listening, language, and to a more limited degree, mathematics within and across content areas. The CCSS shift the focus from “learning to read and write” to “reading and writing to …
Moving Toward Individualization in Education
I’ve been returning recently to a conversation I had in January when walking to dinner with Steve Hargadon during EduCon. We were discussing Finland’s high performance on the international benchmarking assessment, the PISA. There was initial puzzlement when Finland was announced one of the top 5 scoring countries because so much of their educational structure was quite different from the other high scoring countries. What became apparent though is that the one theme the Finnish could agree on collectively was a narrative of equity. We’d like to believe that Americans …
LessonCast at ISTE–Join us!
Saturday, June 23, 2012; 8:30 to 11:30 AM Pre-Conference Hands-On Workshop: Come Make Your Own LessonCast and Receive 3 Months Free Access to LessonArchitect. Register here: additional fee required. Tuesday, June 26, 2012; 5 to 6:15 PM Birds of a Feather Session: Mentor Teachers Multiplied: Building Teacher Capacity. Come share best coaching practices! Wednesday, June 27, 2012; 8:30 to 9:30 AM Bring Your Own Device Session: Mentor Teachers Multiplied. Come explore lessoncasts and the process for developing them. Register here: free.
