dealing with new realities: what matters now
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Keynote for SeLNO 2013 in Thunder Bay, ONTRANSCRIPT
Dean ShareskiSeLNO
Thunder Bay, ONNovember 18,2013
WHAT MATTERS NOW
DEALING WITH NEW REALITIES
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Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
“My argument is not with educational research but with the imperative of evidence-based education policy. At its best, educational research can provide important insights into the relationship between various social and cultural variables and pedagogic outcomes.”
Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
But the principal problem educators face today is not the dearth of educational research or a lack of evidence about ‘what works’, but
rather the increasing absence of any opportunity for them to exercise professional judgment and to learn the value of what Aristotle call phronesis – the virtue of judgment.
Experimentation in education should be part of a teacher’s everyday life.
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“People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of thingsthey weren't so crazy about the first time around.” ~Author Unknown
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What Matters Less Now?
school
school
grades
grades
grades
“MEASURABLE OUTCOMES MAY BE THE
LEAST SIGNIFICANT RESULT OF LEARNING”
Dr. Linda McNeil
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Consumption CreationReading
Listening
Viewing
Writing
Speaking
Representing
Consumption Creation
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Consumption Creation
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WHAT MATTERS NOW
DEALING WITH NEW REALITIES
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MindfulNess
MindfulNess
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Abundance
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Abundance Scarcity
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Abundance Scarcity
information
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Abundance Scarcity
information attention
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Photograhpers having Breakfast
Photograhpers having Breakfast
“At this age, they get stuck on Wikipedia being the answer to everything and they forget that people can be a really great resource.”
Research suggests over and over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.
Research suggests over and over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.
Research suggests over and over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.
My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years.
My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years.
“But the internet isn't an individual pursuit, it's something
we do with each other. The internet is where people are.”
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Digital Dualism
Digital Dualism
Digital Dualism
Digital Dualism
Digital Dualism
offline
Digital Dualism
offline online
Digital Dualism
offline online
real virtual
Digital Dualismwe have been taught to mistakenly view online as meaning not offline. The notion of the offline as real and authentic is a recent
invention, corresponding with the rise of the online. If we can fix this false separation and view the digital and physical as enmeshed, we will understand that what we do while connected is inseparable from what we do when disconnected.
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attention literacy
attention literacy
Do you regularly change routine and structure to focus ATTENTION?
How are you practicing MINDFULNESS?
Do you regularly change routine and structure to focus ATTENTION?
How are you practicing MINDFULNESS?
Do you regularly change routine and structure to focus ATTENTION?
What are you doing to help your students more INTENTIONAL with their thought and actions?
COMMUNITY
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COMMUNITY
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The smartest person in the room, is the room. Dave Weinberger
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Tell that to Chris Avenir
Tell that to Chris AvenirRyerson University sites 3 reasons for the case against him.
1.Learning should be hard.
2.There is no structure of regulation for online behavior and that makes it incompatible with academic work.
3.It is our job to protect academic integrity from any threat.
i.e. Unless learning is hard and is directed by certified persons, it’s not valid.
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Mind Your Own Business
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Mind Your Own Business
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Mind Your Own Business
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What did you learn from others?
What did you contribute to the learning of others?
“Bringing smart people together is an ancient and effective technique for developing ideas. The Net also lets smart people connect and communicate...
David Weinberger,Too Big To Know
David Weinberger,Too Big To Know
But the Net brings people together in new and occasionally weird configurations—a weirdness that is now being reflected in how expertise works....”
David Weinberger,Too Big To Know
My Learning Project
My Learning Project
My Teaching Staff
"Weird configurations"
"Weird configurations"
"Weird configurations"
How are building COMMUNITY?
How are building COMMUNITY?
Have they experienced “WEIRD CONFIGURATIONS”? Have you?
How are building COMMUNITY?
How do you insure they LEARN from others beside you?
Have they experienced “WEIRD CONFIGURATIONS”? Have you?
JOY
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JOY
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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
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"Why are our schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
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"Why are our schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
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"Why are our schools not places
of joy?"
Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn
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I’m appearing to accept an odious premise—namely, that joy must be justified as a means to the end of better academic performance. Not so:
It’s an end in itself.
It's an end in itself.
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It's an end in itself.
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It's an end in itself.
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