mindsets for modern learning: aassa 2014
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Mindsets for Modern LearningAASSA 2014
BASIC ASSUMPTIONS
@wjtolley
@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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