15 MAR 2017 by ideonexus
Making Standards Transparent Encourages Students
When we make the standards and objectives transparent for students, we empower them to be active in our learning choices as well. I have found that when students know what the previous year’s standard is and where we were headed in our learning, they are eager to co-construct our learning. Students care about being able to demonstrate what they know because they understand the journey. This kind of transparency also makes it much easier for students to advocate for themselves and explain wh... 1 
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notesLet’s play! Transforming My Teaching to Match My Students Miranda Salguero
15 MAR 2017 by ideonexus
Games Allow Experimentation
One way to achieve genuine engagement in students is to provide them with the opportunity to experiment with scenarios in which they can examine complex issues and interactions. Games provide a safe and interactive way for kids to engage with complex ideas, put themselves in others’ roles and analyze issues from a perspective different from their own. This gives game-based learning incredible potential to provide students with a reason to engage with difficult content and to feel invested i...Folksonomies: game-based learning
Folksonomies: game-based learning
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notesLet’s play! Transforming My Teaching to Match My Students Miranda Salguero
22 APR 2014 by ideonexus
UbD Three-Stage Template
To help educators start with the goal, rather than the learning activity, UbD employs a three-stage template.
• Stage 1—Identify desired results: In the first stage, you consider your big ideas and learning goals and prioritize them.
• Stage 2—Determine acceptable evidence: In the next stage, you “think like an assessor” (p. 18) to select the means for collecting and validating evidence students grasped your learning goals.
• Stage 3—Plan learning experiences and instructio... 1 notes
notesThe basic methodology to backwards design in teaching.
21 APR 2014 by ideonexus
Number
Number is a rich, many-sided domain whose simplest forms are compre-
hended by very young children and whose far reaches are still being explored
by mathematicians. Proficiency with numbers and numerical operations is
an important foundation for further education in mathematics and in fields
that use mathematics. Because much of this report attends to the learning
and teaching of number, it is important to emphasize that our perspective is
considerably broader than just computation. First, nu...Folksonomies: education mathematics
Folksonomies: education mathematics
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notesMathematics summarized.
27 NOV 2013 by ideonexus
The Value of the Elderly
A challenge for society is to make use of those things that older people are better at doing. Some abilities, of course, decrease with age. Those include abilities at tasks requiring physical strength and stamina, ambition, and the power of novel reasoning in a circumscribed situation, such as figuring out the structure of DNA, best left to scientists under the age of 30. Conversely, valuable attributes that increase with age include experience, understanding of people and human relationship... 1 notes
notesTheir experience makes them better-skilled for certain professions, such as managing, and teaching.
10 SEP 2013 by ideonexus
Think of Everything as Already Broken
In his book Thoughts without a Thinker, psychiatrist
Mark Epstein recounts this teaching
by the Thai meditation master Achaan Chah.
“You see this goblet?” Achaan Chah asks.
“For me this glass is already broken. I enjoy
it; I drink out of it. It holds my water admirably,
sometimes even reflecting the sun in beautiful patterns. If I should tap it, it has a lovely ring to
it. But when I put this glass on the shelf, and the
wind knocks it over or my elbow brushes it off
the table and it fal... 1 notes
notesA liberating perspective.
19 JAN 2013 by ideonexus
Summary of Postmodernism
The teaching that there is no objective reality, but rather many subjec¬ tive realities, or in this case, that the subjective realities are on an equal par with the objective reality (you're dead!) in turn influences students' views of the primacy of knowledge. To critics, history is no longer the search for what really happened, but rather the victor's interpretation as seen through the lens of power and oppression, and it bears a cultural and political focus. Literature is no longer a stud...Folksonomies: postmodernism post modernism
Folksonomies: postmodernism post modernism
1 The relativity of knowledge.
12 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Lecturing is Easy, Teaching is Hard
Lecturing after a fashion is easy enough ; teaching is a very different affair. ... The transmission of ideas from one mind to another, in a simple unequivocal form, is not always easy ; but in teaching, the object is not merely to convey the idea, but to give a lively and lasting impression; something that should not merely cause the retention of the image, but in such connection as to excite another process, ' thought.' 1 notes
notesPlanting ideas in students' heads of different backgrounds and experiences is a difficult task.
08 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
Every Human is Potentially a Genius
To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he becom...Folksonomies: genius
Folksonomies: genius
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notesWe must allow them to develop their own genius according to what interests them.
18 MAY 2012 by ideonexus
Teaching is a Waste of Time
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his preciou...Folksonomies: education
Folksonomies: education
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notesQuoting Carl Friedrich Gauss: Students who learn by lecturing go on to merely collect more facts, one who expands the boundaries of a field teaches themselves.
