The central message of the video Mr. Dancealot is that bad teaching results in bad test scores. Mr. Dancealot read his lesson straight off of the slides. He did not allow for interaction. He did not answer questions. So, when he tested them on the material they were just as confused, if not more-so, than they were before they took to class. The author showed this by demonstrating the teaching style and the average learning style before making it known that the students were clueless. Personally, I am a visual leaner. I like to see how things work rather than just hear about them. I also agree with teacher/student interaction. I have been in classes like Mr. Dancealot's class and performed poorly. I wholeheartedly agree with the author of this movie. Sub par teaching yields sub par learning.
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Teaching in the 21st Century
1. teaching skills, not facts
2. kids already have access to infinite info
3. kids have unlimited access to tools
4. kids have limited access to instructions on how to use the tools and what information is legit
5. as the criteria children need to succeed in our world changes, the knowledge we provide them with must change too
According to Roberts, teaching in the 21st century is not about supplying facts, data, theories or formulas. Teaching is about providing students with the ability to find these things on their own as well as apply them to their everyday lives. In a world where access to tools and information is unlimited it is a teacher's job to give students the information they will need to properly use these tools and to independently sift through the information given to them. In this century the internet is a very powerful tool. It can hurt you or help you. As a teacher it is my responsibility to make sure they know how to use it in such a way that it is the latter. This may not change what I teach as much as it changes how I teach.
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The Networked Student
1. address upcoming problem
2. apply to life
3. agree with proposed solution
It seems to me that information sifting will be a big problem in the 21st century. We all know those friends we have who believe anything they read on the internet. We all really wish they could differentiate between information displayed by a reliable source and some uneducated jack-wad with access to a computer. It annoys us that they cannot decide for themselves what information should be retained and what information should be placed directly in file thirteen. In this century it is debilitating to not be able to use computers proficiently and the internet professionally. No one has time to teach you once you are out in the job market. So, it would seem the only solution is to teach it in school. It is as vital as knowing how to write your name. It makes you marketable, valuable and self-sufficient. I think it is very important to teach kids to work as a unit and to use what they will be handed to work with.
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Edutopia
Davis' thesis: If you can empower the students to learn you are going to have a better classroom.
My argument: I think empowerment may look different for different age groups but I agree.
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Who's Ahead in the Learning Race?
It is a learning race, therefore whoever is most willing to learn is still in the race. It is 2014 so the tools being used are technology based. Clearly the tools used in the elementary classroom are different than they were when I was an elementary student. If the question was, "Who's ahead in the Technology Race?" the answer would be current elementary students because that is what is taught to them. If the question was, "Who's ahead in the Cursive Handwriting Race?" the answer would be undergraduate and graduate students because that was taught to us. The question, however, is, "Who's ahead in the Learning Race?" You can never finish the learning race and you can never necessarily be ahead in the learning race. If you said someone was ahead you would have to place value on different types of knowledge. I don't know anyone prepared to do that. As long as we are running(learning) it will all work out.
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Flipping the Classroom
Flipping the classroom means to bring more online teaching/learning to the students. I think it is an effective means of learning for some people and it covers the bases of learning types more efficiently than lecture alone.
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