“Teachers need to be PEDAGOGICAL EXPERTS much more than they need to be content experts today. Teachers need to be coaches, facilitators, and cheerleaders for students who engage in REAL work as they learn and create knowledge work “deliverables” for prescribed deadlines.” -Wesley Fryer
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2007/04/05/good-teaching-with-technology-does-make-a-difference/
“don’t focus on the tools and the direct application of the tools. Focus on what the tools allow us to do better and then find a way to implement that functionality in an organization. Should all grade 3 students have a blog on blogspot? Or videos on youtube? No. But all students in grade 3 should be communicating with others (preferably from around the world), expressing themselves in creative ways, co-creating with peers, and interacting with media and technology. Don’t let the tools be used as a scapegoat for inertia.” – George Siemens
preparing teachers for today, to educate students for tomorrow, to prevent schools from becoming a thing of the past.
1. Everyone needs to know and feel that he or she is needed
2. Everyone wants to be treated as an individual
3. Giving someone the freedom to take responsibility releases resources that would otherwise remain concealed
4. An individual without information cannot take responsibility. An individual who is given information cannot help but take responsibility
Jan Carlzon’s book Moments of Truth
“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.”
-Peter Drucker
Mr. Turkentine: Of course you don’t know. You don’t know because only I know. If you knew and I didn’t know, then you’d be teaching me instead of me teaching you – and for a student to be teaching his teacher is presumptuous and rude. Do I make myself clear?
“Video game designers have created such an engaging system that [kids] don’t care if they have to fail 100 times before they actually succeed,” says Etuk. “If you ask any teacher how she would feel about a child failing 100 times at algebra, but never giving up and even asking his friends to help him succeed at algebra, that teacher would say, ‘That’s the dream.’” Source: Administrator Magazine “Video Gaming During Class”