learning leaders 21st century

21st Century PedagogySupporting 21st Century Learners

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The theories children build, whether they are right or wrong, are not capricious. They are often logical and rational, and firmly based in evidence and experience.

Susan WorthPower of Children’s Thinking

What does the brain tell us about learning?Implications for teaching and learning in 21C

Engage prior understanding, and challenge misconceptions

Teach some subject matter in depth, providing many examples in which the same concept is at work and providing a firm foundation of factual knowledge.

Teach meta-cognitive skills, which should be integrated into the curriculum in a variety of subject areas

• Once learned, misinformation may be difficult to correct.

• People do not get ideas; they make them.

• “A report by the office for Standards in Education on FE teacher training, said that ‘the quality of trainees’ teaching is affected adversely by their limited knowledge of how to teach their subject’” OFSTED, 2003:6

• Learning how to learning; thinking about thinking; teaching about how to think

Teachers in the 21st Century are to:

Misconceptions?Frequently, when science is taught to … school pupils, it is taught as if the children had had no prior experiences relative to the topic being studied. Misconceptions research contains findings indicating that this is not a valid assumption. Children come to school already holding beliefs about how things happen, and have expectations--based on past experiences--which enable them to predict future events.

Patricia Blosser

It is all to often unfortunate but true—teachers teach the way they were taught (Frank, 1990; Goodlad, 1990; Handler, 1993). Teaching methods courses, perhaps, offer one of the few opportunities for preservice teachers to view new knowledge through lenses different than the ones tainted by prior knowledge about teaching and learning.

P. Molebash

Misconceptions?

When you think of the teachers with whom you are working, what ideas do they hold about teaching and learning in the 21st Century?

How will you know?

What will you do?

Misconceptions?

Who are they?

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David Warlick is a 30 year educator, author, blogger, and Web 2.0 programmer.

“Teacher education programs are caught in the bind of informing teacher candidates about the importance of prior experiences and misconceptions while also having to deal with these candidates’ own prior experiences and misconceptions about both teaching and content.”

Hausfather

“Teaching well depends on more than "knowing subject matter," understanding learning, and being able to present material clearly. Teaching is itself a specialized form of work that entails substantial content-based problem solving and reasoning.”

Abstract to Ball’s Keynote Address

Depth of Content Understanding

“The cases suggest interrelationships between teachers content knowledge and their organization of content knowledge for instruction” (263). “The cases suggest interrelationships between the nature of classroom … discourse, and teachers syntactic [rule-bound] knowledge of mathematics” (264). The cases suggest interrelationships between teachers assessment of student thinking … and understanding … students reasoning processes, and teachers content … syntactic, and metacognitive knowledge” (266). Millsaps


How will you engage teachers in learning and inquiring about their work, so the conversation is substantive in supporting their development in content, and pedagogical expertise?


Meta-cognition: Learning how to learn

Critically important, yet overlooked …

Metacognition involves thinking about one’s own cognitive processes

Thinking about one’s thinking, learning, reasoning, problem solving, ...

– Metacognition is essential for effective learning in complex situations

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Copyright Marsha Lovett, 2008. This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author.

“Self-regulated learning is characterized by three central features; awareness of thinking, use of strategies, and situated motivation. … Understanding the notion of self-regulation is important for teachers because teaching requires problem-solving and invention. Teachers face problems and challenges that are complex and rarely straightforward. … It is ironic that teachers are often taught with pedagogical methods that are contrary to the principles that they are being taught, such as direct instruction on problem-based learning or cooperative learning.

Paris and in Blakey and Spence

“The ability to recognize the limits of one’s current knowledge, then take steps to remedy the situation, is extremely important for learners of all ages.”

How People Learn (National Research Council)

Learning About Learning; Thinking About Thinking


“Beliefs about what it means to be an expert [likewise, a professional] can affect the degree to which people explicitly search for what they don’t know and take steps to improve the situation.”

How People Learn (National Research Council)

With this understanding in mind, what will you do to uncover teacher’s understanding of their work as professionals? If warranted, how will you model and coach them through teaching expertise, thinking about thinking, and learning about learning?


Change the Design

The AxiomsGuiding Principles of EduCon 2.0:

1) Our [teachers] must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all [students an colleagues]. Pedagogies which personalise learning

2) Our [teaching] must be about co-creating -- together with our students -- the 21st Century Citizen

3) [Teachers] must serve pedagogy, not the other way around.

4) Technology must enable students [and teachers] to research, create, communicate and collaborate

5) Learning [and teaching] can -- and must -- be networked.

What is EduCon2.0?

EduCon 2.0 is both a conversation and a conference.And it is not a technology conference. It is an education conference. It is a School 2.0 conference. It is, hopefully, an innovation conference where we want to come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas -- from the very practical to the big dreams.

Words Replaced: 1. Schools, members 2. Schools 3. Technology



Andragogy: Teaching adults

Toffler's School of Tomorrow

These are the fundamentals of the futurist's vision for education in the twenty-first century:

* Open twenty-four hours a day * Customized educational experience * Kids arrive at different times * Students begin their formalized schooling at different ages * Curriculum is integrated across disciplines * Nonteachers work with teachers * Teachers alternate working in schools and in business world * Local businesses have offices in the schools * Increased number of charter schools

Daly, James. 2007. Future School: Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up: Alvin Toffler tells us what's wrong -- and right -- with public education.

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