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Pedagogy - 21st Century Learning Top Ten Things We Learned From K12 Students.doc, 105 KB
Julie Evans is the CEO of Project Tomorrow (www.tomorrow.org), a national education nonprofit organization (formerly known as NetDay).


The EDUCAUSE Top Teaching and Learning Challenges 2009
  1. Creating learning environments that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation.
  2. Developing 21st century literacies (information, digital, and visual) among students and faculty.
  3. Reaching and engaging today's learner.
  4. Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in teaching and learning with IT.
  5. Advancing innovation in teaching and learning with technology in an era of budget cuts.

There is quite likely no substitute for the experience of feeling empowered. . . if we hope for children to pursue learning enthusiastically within the structure of a classroom or a school. Learning and power are inextricably linked. [The Game of School, p. 65]
The Game of School

The Game of School: Why We All Play It, How It Hurts Kids,and What It Will Take to Change It (Hardcover) by Robert L. Fried !

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  • EDUCAUSE Community Names the Top Teaching and Learning Challenges of 2009
    • - After four months of spirited discussion, the EDUCAUSE teaching and learning community has voted on the “Top Teaching and Learning Challenges, 2009.” The results are in: creating active, collaborative learning environments and developing 21st century literacies topped the list, while engaging today’s learners, encouraging faculty innovation, and advancing IT in an era of budget cuts rounded out the top five.

Pedagogy - 21st Century Learning
Metiri Group


We hear this word and what do we mean by pedagogy? This is the act of teaching and learning. How does this appear in our dynamic world of our classrooms? Is it teacher centered? Student centered? Are teachers the "sage on the stage" or the "wizard in the wings"? Are we facilitators, mentors, managers?

  • teaching; assisting students through interaction and activity in the ongoing academic and social events of the classroom.
    www.crede.org/tools/glossary.html
  • Pedagogy is the art or science of teaching. The word comes from the ancient Greek paidagogos, the slave who took children to and from school. (See Paideia.) The word "paida" refers to children, which is why some like to make the distinction between pedagogy (teaching children) and andragogy (teaching adults). The Latin word for pedagogy, education, is much more widely used, and often the two are used interchangeably.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedagogy

Connectivism
Alternative to the behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism, the three broad learning theories

Principles of connectivism:
  • Learning and knowledge rests in diversity of opinions.
  • Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources.
  • Learning may reside in non-human appliances.
  • Capacity to know more is more critical than what is currently known
  • Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.
  • Ability to see connections between fields, ideas, and concepts is a core skill.
  • Currency (accurate, up-to-date knowledge) is the intent of all connectivist learning activities.
  • Decision-making is itself a learning process. Choosing what to learn and the meaning of incoming information is seen through the lens of a shifting reality. While there is a right answer now, it may be wrong tomorrow due to alterations in the information climate affecting the decision.


From "The Thinking Stick"

I don’t want to integrate it, I want to embed it!

September 24th, 2007 by Jeff Utecht

As I quickly scan my blog alerts - this recent addition jumps into the discussion of pedagogy...

I just read the article and Jeff has a good point about state of school districts still stuck in the "integration of technology" mode, as opposed to beginning to think about "embedding" the technology within the curriculum itself. I recommmend not only reading Jeff's thoughts, but the insightful comments that follow.



Learn More:
  1. The Partnership for 21st Century Skills - Home


Do Schools Kill Creativity
Sir Ken Robinson. TEDTalks video 20 min.

Video: Teaching Teaching Understanding Understanding
A great explanation of constructivist pedagogy