Friday, December 19, 2008
Sportsmanship
Is sportsmanship more than shaking hands at the end of a game? List a few other ways we can be good sports while playing games of any kind? Give me some good answers and there might be something in it for you!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
School Design
The interview about the design of schools has many good points. If I could some kind of design to a school I think it would be something that would enable communities to be more involved in the educational process. Maybe a design element that would bring businesses in all fields into the school. This would mean the technologies and the people used in businesses such as the insurance field, medical Electrical, mechanical, political, agricultural, banking, all government positions,
tourism, travel, and on and on and on.
tourism, travel, and on and on and on.
Monday, October 13, 2008
Brain rules
I like the whole video. I have always been intrigued with how the brain works. We all do learn differently concerning time, place, and so much of what we do for learning in our schools just does not follow suit. I'm not sure what the answer is for engaging kids. But much of what is in this video needs to be thought of as we trudge on into the the future of teaching and learning. One big point that stuck out for me was the fact that we learn through pictures. I really think video production would be a great tool because it incorporates so much repetition. I think with repetition and pictures learning can be enhanced.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
02_SV_TeacherShortcommings
I know education is different today than in the past. I do think teachers need to change what they do to keep things fresh. I do not like the notion that so much of what we see on the selling of the 21st century learners and how they need to learn sometimes cuts the teacher down. Public education has worked for well over 125 years and it will continue to work so long as students are willing to come to school with some of their own self motivation. School for students and real life jobs for student when they become adults is not all about fun. Students still need to be equipped for the "real world" to deal with adversity, confrontation, disappointment, boredom, and change. Sometimes I just get tired of hearing students say, "can't we do something fun to learn". The fun part of learning should be knowing that what knowledge you have acquired is yours and that it can never be taken away. Not wheather you were having fun when you acquire it.
I know education is different today than in the past. I do think teachers need to change what they do to keep things fresh. I do not like the notion that so much of what we see on the selling of the 21st century learners and how they need to learn sometimes cuts the teacher down. Public education has worked for well over 125 years and it will continue to work so long as students are willing to come to school with some of their own self motivation. School for students and real life jobs for student when they become adults is not all about fun. Students still need to be equipped for the "real world" to deal with adversity, confrontation, disappointment, boredom, and change. Sometimes I just get tired of hearing students say, "can't we do something fun to learn". The fun part of learning should be knowing that what knowledge you have acquired is yours and that it can never be taken away. Not wheather you were having fun when you acquire it.
Monday, September 29, 2008
GOOGLE What a deal
9-29-08 Google what a great resource to have. My favorite Google tool is Google docs. It just seems to make sense to me for online collaboration and editing purposes. I really have no practical use for it at this time, but I think it would be pretty easy and practical to use. Maybe someday I'll be fortunate enough to get to visit a a place like Google. It was really interesting to hear about this fabulous place.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Ian Jukes Pod Cast Learning Environment
Digital natives brains are wired differently. It has been proven scientifically that the pathways by which children learn today are different than the pathways by which we learn. It can be physically seen with medical equipment.
87% of kids today do not learn by listening to a lecture nor do by text based writing.
They are very rapid learners and almost totally visual and hands on.
Visual Processing increases with just 10 hours of video game play. Takes on average of 40 hours to master a video game. Think of how this must effect our students today.
What is the implication of this lecture to schools?
We retain 70% of what we say to others while teaching.
We retain 90% of what we say and do.
To me all of this means kids do learn differently today than we may have learned years ago. We do need to change how we teach. Change is hard and slow in the field of education. We have to get students more involved in a way that presents information in a less traditional way. We have to stay away from lecture and note taking and lean more towards a way of teaching that forces students to research their own learning, document that learning however they can learn it best, but then at the end, once it has been researched and documented in a way the student understands, the student needs to present this information to a group of people who will take a genuine interest in what the student has to say. 90% of what we say and do is retained. The say and the do part is for the presenter not the audience. Although having an audience who will listen and take interest does help the teaching.
87% of kids today do not learn by listening to a lecture nor do by text based writing.
They are very rapid learners and almost totally visual and hands on.
Visual Processing increases with just 10 hours of video game play. Takes on average of 40 hours to master a video game. Think of how this must effect our students today.
What is the implication of this lecture to schools?
We retain 70% of what we say to others while teaching.
We retain 90% of what we say and do.
To me all of this means kids do learn differently today than we may have learned years ago. We do need to change how we teach. Change is hard and slow in the field of education. We have to get students more involved in a way that presents information in a less traditional way. We have to stay away from lecture and note taking and lean more towards a way of teaching that forces students to research their own learning, document that learning however they can learn it best, but then at the end, once it has been researched and documented in a way the student understands, the student needs to present this information to a group of people who will take a genuine interest in what the student has to say. 90% of what we say and do is retained. The say and the do part is for the presenter not the audience. Although having an audience who will listen and take interest does help the teaching.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Fact from Shift Happens
The most interesting Facts for me were how the entire world will be connected in the next few years with the one to one lap top initiative and children born today will have 14 or 15 jobs by age 38.
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