A 2012 report by the New Media Consortium identified “game-based learning” as one of the major trends affecting education in the next five years.
Game on! More reason to explore engagement mechanics in what we do.
Maybe it’s time to rethink our approach to teaching the craft so that editing—which touches everything—is part of everything we teach.
Tell it, Deb!
The New Yorker just had their Five Key Ted Talks article and watched Sir Ken Robinson again. What a great Ted Talk. Great to hear him again in this Ted Radio Hour.
… if you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original — if you’re not prepared to be wrong.
Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
… these coding initiatives haven’t been great at communicating: that “learning to code” and “becoming a programmer” are not the same thing, and that doing the former in a time when software encapsulates nearly everything we do is personally empowering.
There is indeed a distinction.
What a great and brilliant idea! Nominate an educator and animator now. This is also one of the reasons why I started a new Tumblr blog called “Dream Lectures.” Stay curious everyone! Maybe they should also collaborate with the Khan Academy.
TED just launched a very promising education initiative, TED-Ed, pairing great teachers with top animators to transform the best lessons in dynamic visual presentation accessible to everyone on TED education channel on YouTube.
“TED-Ed Catalyst Logan Smalley added: ”TED-Ed has the potential to take a lesson that might normally reach just 20 students and extend it to the world. The topics we can cover are endless, and the more teachers and animators who contribute their lessons and talents, the more impactful this resource becomes. This is an exciting first step for TED-Ed, with more ideas, tools, and announcements to come in the months ahead.” (news.yahoo.com)
It’s not about the box. It’s about changing the culture of instruction — preparing students for their future, not our past.
That’s Mark Edwards, superintendent of Mooresville Graded School District. It’s an excellent debate. One that we have even in our household. There has to be a balance.
The juxtaposition of this photo (Jeremy M. Lange for The New York Times) and quote isn’t lost.
And those concerned about corporate encroachment on public schools would blanch at the number of Apple logos in the hallways, and at the district’s unofficial slogan: “iBelieve, iCan, iWill.”
Totally like whatever, you know? (by n0m3rcy)
… speak with conviction… it is not enough these days to simply question authority, you gotta speak with it, too.
Thanks to my wife, Laura, for pointing me to this brilliant poet, Taylor Mali, “a vocal advocate of teachers and the nobility of teaching, having himself spent nine years in the classroom.”
Check out this other fantastic on-stage performance: What Teachers Make:
… the difficulty of reforming a curriculum with the difficulty of moving a cemetery.
Excellent way to put it.
One of the greatest changes is that a college degree is no longer the guarantor of a middle-class existence.
Another layer to the road to nowhere.
Excellent series. And thought it was apropos after watching “Waiting For ‘Superman’” last week. Also a must see.
