Digital Learning Farm with Alan November
Daniel Pink in Drive
You need: Purpose, Autonomy, and Mastery to drive and motivate people and produce effective results.
- Purpose; Has to be outside of the self to be most effective
- Autonomy: Why games are so effective... kids choose how to solve problems
- Mastery: We don't have this, we have cover the curriculum
The more you grade creative work, the less you will get from students.
Our instructional design ignores the research on motivation and seems to reward things that decrease or demotivates people. Farm kids know work ethic. "They know what hard work is.."
Teacher in Texas built a library of math tutorials created by students. 3 Minute video that took 3 hours to create. She wanted to help her friends who were struggling with the content. It was an option to do instead of homework. She did not get a grade for this. Her homework would have taken seven minutes. You have highly motivated kids who have purpose. Publishing for their peers and the world.
Every teacher should be a global publisher of student work.
Eric Mazur, Harvard Professor: Great teachers figure out where their students are stuck and confused.
Videos have a rewind button and my teacher does not. Do not deliver content- show every child how to use screencasting tools on the first day. Build capacity for everyone to contribute.
Teacher in Winnipeg: Every day a student is the scribe. Teachers approves and publishes the notes. One child who is a bit of an outcast, publishes amazing notes. Everyone seeks out this kid because of his amazing notes.
First grade teacher in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan. Student created videos. Kids sharing their learning.
Asking teachers, "What is the biggest waste of your time?"
Science Fair- kids get anxious, 45 minutes per kid. Google search for exemplar samples. Teachers should show kids how to find the best science fair projects.
Project on Iranian Hostage Crisis. Child did a report for AP History class. Looked up sources from Iran. Site:IR Gets you source from Iran. Teachers should use Diigo with students to compile lists of source materials. A library of materials available for everyone in your class.
Day 2 of school. Teach children to tear apart the internet layer by layer. Become research experts.
Ranking students as to go. No incentive for #1 student to help
Flipped Classroom problem: Content made by teachers... Why? Wouldn't the kids do a better job?
Video from Denmark got an A... Number the Stars Book Trailer. Picture of girl with soldier and police. Not accurate.
Have your students benchmark best assignments of teachers across the country. site:"k12".*."us".
How can you change the first five days to transform the learning environment?
ReplyDeleteYoutube videos. Www.rsa.org
Purpose, autonomy and mastery--most important & are largely missing from schools.
Do not grade creative work it's demotivating
First day of school-build capacity.
-make sure every kid has screen casting software
-teach students to design tutorials to contribute to
Students need to learn from students. More on their level (kids want to rewind what teacher says..)
kids should be working harder than teachers in classrooms
Show students best student work in the world--just google it!
-look for sources from different cultures(site:country code) in google search bar
Diigo--www.diigo.com(allows you to save content and access on the cloud), start in 3rd grade. Allows kids to contribute