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The strong desire to add a number to learning is a perennial unfortunately. I recognize that in order to help children we need to give feedback about how well they are doing but this pseudo-scientific approach does not really help in the bigger pict…
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- About Me:
- I am a semi-retired educator. I was an ICT Coordinator for the Toronto District School Board but retired in 2004. I have been and continue to be an instructor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, teaching a course called Design Thinking and Problem Solving in the Classroom. I have been interested in how we think and especially how we solve problems for MANY years and have developed some theories and practical tools for teachers who wish to think outside the "pyramid".
I am also a Principal for Additional Qualification courses at OISE in the areas of Computers in the Classroom, Computer Science and Business Studies.
In addition I am a Director (sounds grand eh? NOT!) of an educational computing organization - www.ecoo.org that advocates for the use of computers - in Ontario, Canada.
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- At 5:22pm on January 25, 2008,
Deirdre Bonnycastle said…
- When I teach higher order thinking techniques to faculty, they are most reluctant to consider creativity because they say they have no idea how to assess this. Smile! I'm doing a workshop on this very topic in March!
- At 11:22am on January 25, 2008,
- Thank you for the comments. I may use the McLuhan comment in something I'm working on. Smile! You might be interested someday in submitting an article to the Active Learning Blog Carnival http://activelearningcarnival.blogspot.com/. I
- At 6:23pm on December 4, 2007,
Geoff Day said…
- I only found out about in the past few months so I am not an expert at all but it is an interesting approach to people who talk a lot when presenting a PPT. It was invented in an architecture school but I think could easily be adapted for school use. In a way it challenges the presenter to be succinct. The best way to find out more is to Google it I think. Wikipedia has a nice history of it and I think some teachers have already used it.
I was going to try it with my last class at OISE but I literally discovered it two days before I had the chance, so I didn't have my act together - literally! In January I will try it.
BTW I REALLY like the video you posted about the Vision of a Student Today. I am still pondering what actually causes a change in education - having been involved for over 40 years I just cannot fathom what makes a real change - not a cosmetic linguistics exercise, but genuine change in structure and direction. I feel the students are telling us but decision makers choose to take a "holier than thou" stance - I see hope some days - it lies within those teachers who think outside the structure.
- At 2:50pm on December 4, 2007,
Nigel Riley said…
- Hi Geoff
What's pecha kucha?
Sorry I'm not up on this one!
- At 7:10pm on December 3, 2007,
- Hi Geoff
Had a look at the ppt. Really interesting when you only watch the graphics and titles. It becomes a kind of cloze procedure! The idea is really interesting and could be the answer to mid-career crises that people tend to go through. Cheers.
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