Slide – Content Coverage 01
Covering content and preparing students for life success are not the same thing.
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Slide – Organize around the opportunity to contribute
“It’s ironic that a shift away from a focus on preparation (take Algebra 1 because you need it for Algebra 2, which you might need to go to college which you might need to get a job) to a focus on difference making is the best possible form of preparation for the innovation economy. A portfolio of work that demonstrates expanding contribution to causes that matter — to a young person and their community — is far more valuable to most colleges and employers than a list of courses passed.
What if, instead of a list of required courses, high school was organized around the opportunity to contribute?”
Vander Ark & Liebtag, Difference Making at the Heart of Learning, 2021 (p. 80)
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Slide – Control and compliance 01
You can have a school that emphasizes control and compliance.
Or you can have a school that emphasizes student voice, agency, and risk-taking.
But you can’t have both.
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Are there any ‘deeper learning’ virtual schools?
Virtual schools… I like the concept of shifting ‘time, place, path, and pace’ very much. But I think all of the virtual schools that I’ve encountered still focus primarily on low-level learning, digitized and chunked into a digital adaptive learning system. I don’t think I’ve ever seen ‘deeper learning’ or inquiry- and project-based learning as a core tenet of a virtual school.
That said, maybe virtual schools that focus on deeper learning, student agency, and authentic work are out there! Anyone know of wholly virtual schools that emphasize rich, robust project- and inquiry-based learning; authentic student contribution to the world around them; critical thinking and problem solving; meaningful uses of technology to communicate and collaborate; and so on? If so, I’d love to hear about them!
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Time, place, path, and pace
Can you say… adaptive learning software?
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Band-aid
Attaching band-aids to our current work doesn’t change much
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Doomed
Until the life success of our students is more important than our own comfort levels, any change we initiate is doomed.
Who uses computers for math drill and practice? [SLIDE]
Thought I’d make a slide out of one my favorite digital equity reports. Anyone have more recent data?
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Source:
Reich, J. (2013). Shockingly similar digital divide findings from 1998 and 2013. Available from Education Week at
www.edtechresearcher.com/2013/06/shockingly_similar_digital_divide_
findings_from_1998_and_2013
See also: Economically-disadvantaged students learn to do what the computer tells them
Dog-and-pony show [SLIDE]
Dog-and-pony every day, please
(not just when someone visits)
Should students’ best learning experiences only be during formal observations?
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How many of our questions can Google and Siri answer? [SLIDE]
How many of our questions can Google and Siri answer?
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