mindsets for modern learning: aassa 2014

Mindsets for Modern LearningAASSA 2014

BASIC ASSUMPTIONS

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@mrspereiraclass

#invisibletech

Theoretical UnderpinningsWhere We Got These Ideas

ABOVE WATER

Invisible Technology

Technology in education must be like oxygen: ubiquitous, necessary and invisible.

-Chris Lehmann

21st Century Learning Spaces

In a well-ordered school, the main reliance for control of this or that individual is upon the activities carried on and upon the situations in which these activities are maintained.

The teacher reduces to a minimum the occasions in which he or she has to exercise authority in a personal way.

Manage Mobility with Mobility• Move, move, move! • Give clear instructions about mobile devices. • Juggle teams regularly. • Or not!

• Above all: assign meaningful work, with student input and, thus, student buy-in and complicity

Monkey See Monkey Do

Google 20%M&Ms

Ts&Cs...yikes!

Why doesn’t work get done at work?

& GRR

100% & 100%

• ⅓ Research• ⅓ Guided Activity • ⅓ Coaching –

This is BY FAR the most powerful part of the approach.

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BENEATH THE SURFACE

Take it like a Paratrooper

• You may be on your own• Be ready for anything• Make do with what you’ve got• Plan for broad situations:

contingency mindset, not contingency plans

• Team up as soon as and whenever you can! Strength in numbers...

• Above all: be resilient

Messy Learning

Connections to the Open Space

• Resilient teachers• Classroom management• Meaningful tools and tasks• Invisible tech: integration & documentation

Select Bibliography• Benjamin Herold,

Education Week Teacher: Innovative Ed. Model Challenges Teachers To Adjust

• John Dewey: Experience and Education• Nikhil Goyal: One Size Does Not Fit All• William Tolley: Changing Instructional Mindsets for the 21st Century• William Tolley: Creating ‘Real Hybrid Classrooms’• Joshua Block: Edutopia: Embracing Messy Learning• Wikipedia: Open Space Learning • Wikipedia: Unconference

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