The Emerging Culture of Teaching and Learning: Alan November
(Keynote EARCOS 2010)
Adding technology to the current culture of teaching/learning is not going to make a difference.
Why do people learn and why do they not learn?
Teaching is not merely delivering information, it is the missing the critical last step of having students apply knowledge.
How else can we teach?
Eric Mazur - Confessions of a Converted Lecturer and more - videos/podcasts
Education is an industry that has not changed its processes with technology.
Flip over the flow of work - teachers content goes to web with multimedia, text, apply to different learning styles. This becomes homework. Kids read, reflect and ask questions BEFORE they come to class.
Brain research shows if you make a mistake on homework, turn it in and don't get it back until a day or more later, the mistake becomes established in the brain.
Need to get the information from the kids heads to the teacher. The way kids are making meaning of knowledge is the most important thing in the classroom.
Reverse classwork and homework - classwork becomes homework, homework becomes classwork. There is no delay in correcting mistakes.
Strategies for students to make meaning of knowledge:
"Convince one another of the correct choice" - articulate and defend your answer.
Instead of "go to the web and find 3 websites" how about "here are 10 websites, compare and contrast them"
Do teachers at your school have the right information at the right time? How about students, parents, leaders?
Do we have the right relationships? Should we have students help each other if the teacher has the right answers?
Build the social networks of students to help each other. Children need to hear another child's voice rather than the voice of the teacher. Have students create tutorials! Kids have been underestimated in making content for the rest of the class to learn. All learning is social - all learners are teachers, all teachers are learners. What is the job of the kid in the school? Redefine the role of children in the classroom.
Have students create screencasts to show understanding and to teach one another.
Get rid of tech planning committee - call it the learning results committee.
Who should own the learning? Discussions about information and relationships.
Teacher must first test for misconceptions - whole process of writing multiple choice questions at the beginning of the unit. Have to listen to kids explain WHY they believe that. Find students who have the right model and have them teach the others.
Unteach before you teach.
Practice makes permanent, not perfect.
Teach really good research skills!
Go for global collaboration - every teacher should globalize the curriculum.
Teach empathy and perspective.
Technology Learning
Comments