This video is a playful exploration of the disconnect between current educational thinking and the reality for today’s students.
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This playful student-made video exhorts teachers to “teach for the future” because students are the future.
This video is a presentation about school design made by a teacher in the USA in hopes of sparking some discussion her district.
New evidence from many branches of science has significantly added to our understanding of what it means to know, from the neural processes that occur during learning to the influence of culture on what people see and absorb.
How People Learn examines these findings and their implications for what we teach, how we teach it, and how we assess what our children learn. The book uses exemplary teaching to illustrate how approaches based on what we now know result in in-depth learning. Read more Situated learning theory and the cognitive apprenticeship model based on it suggest skills be acquired through authentic contexts and by communicating with peers and experts about those contexts. Brown, Collins, & Duguid, 1989, Researchers
We know that real world interactions and apprenticeship engage maturing youth in learning and help prepare them for adulthood, yet we lecture students "about" abstracted ideas, separated from their daily usefulness. John Abbott, President, 21st Century Learning Initiative
The principle reason high schools now enroll nearly all teenagers is that we can't imagine what else to do with them. Thomas Hine, Author
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