Pygmalion: Learning

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PygmalionLearning Student Voice

• MassCUE Fall Conference
• Promoting 21st Century Learning

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Introductions

• Dennis
• Assumptions
• Grandson
• Audience

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Dalton Sherman
YouTube Dalton Sherman
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YouTube Famous Failures
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Schooling Learning

• Participation
• Worksheets
• Groups
• Choices
• Creativity
• Technology
• Confidence
• Mistakes

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Schooling Learning

• Engage, Challenge Inspire Students and Teachers
  
• Transition to Generative Learning
• Create Communities of Learners
• Connect, Communicate, Collaborate, Create,
  Contribute Locally Globally
• Move from Obedience to Responsibility for
  Teaching, Leading Learning (Stop using
  accountability)
• Foster Digital Alternatives for Assignments
• Cut the current content load by one-third

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In 2002, only 9 percent of adults were able to
say that the children they saw in public were
"respectful toward adults," according to surveys
done then by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan and
nonprofit public opinion research group.
Judith Warner, Kids Gone Bad, New York Times,
November 27, 2005 http//www.smart4kidz.org/press/
Kids_Gone_Bad.pdf
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In 2004, more than one in three teachers told
Public Agenda pollsters they had seriously
considered leaving their profession or knew a
colleague who had left because of "intolerable"
student behavior.
Judith Warner, Kids Gone Bad, New York Times,
November 27, 2005 http//www.smart4kidz.org/press/
Kids_Gone_Bad.pdf
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Discipline with Dignity, 3rd editionPowerlessnes
s, p. 19
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Children should be seen and not heard.
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Web 2.0

• Buzzword
• Diigo
• Email
• Embedded Links
• Facebook
• Skype
• Wikis
• VoiceThread
• Flickr

• Magnitude of the Web
• Online Identity
• Web 2.0 Agreement with Parents
• Images for Illustration Illumination
• Digital Citizenship, Safety, Success
  http//ad4dcss.wikispaces.com/

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21st Century Learning

• Framework for 21st Century Learning
• ISTE NETS
• NCTE Toward a Definition of....
• ASCD Whole Child Education Initiative
• The Power to Transform - SPM
• New Media Literacies Project
• Microsoft Education Competencies
• Whole New Mind /The World is Flat

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Survival Skills Tony Wagner

• Critical Thinking Problem Solving
• Collaboration Leadership
• Agility Adaptability
• Initiative Entrepreneurialism
• Effective Oral Written Communication
• Assessing Analyzing Information
• Curiosity Imagination

http//www.schoolchange.org/articles/rigor_redefin
ed.html
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Tony Wagner, Rigor on Trial, www.SchoolChange.org
Tony Wagner, Rigor Redefined, www.SchoolChange.org

www.WholeChildEducation.org
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Atrophic Learningin American Classrooms

• Learning is passive.
• Learning is acquired information.
• Potential capability are finite and bounded.
• Intelligence is fixed.
• Content is our priority.
• Reliable evaluation is external.
• Competition external rewards motivate.

Stephanie Pace Marshall, Does Education and
Training Get in the Way of Learning? 1997
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Generative Learningin American Classrooms

• Learning is dynamic and developmental.
• Learning is constructing meaning patterns.
• Potential capability can be enhanced.
• Intelligence is malleable.
• Genuine understanding is our priority.
• Reliable evaluation is qualitative
  self-correcting.
• Collaboration motivates.

Stephanie Pace Marshall, Does Education and
Training Get in the Way of Learning? 1997
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