basiani - from georgia to ann arbor - 04 10 2012
creative thinker-in-action
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"Toddler Spatial Knowledge Boosts Understanding of Numbers."
= Praise for Montessori. All knowledge comes through the senses.
http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/06/how-spatial-thinking-can-improve-math-and-science-skills/
study: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120613102005.htm
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peer-to-peer learning →
Students take online courses in groups, without instructors.
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Project-based learning: a guide
” ‘Project-based learning’ refers to students designing, planning, and carrying out an extended project that produces a publicly-exhibited output such as a product, publication, or presentation.
A fabulous resource
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"he passed all the required assessments in six months and took home his bachelor’s without taking a course"
from “How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education,” Fast Company, 2009.
“The string-quartet model of education is no longer sustainable.”
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“Industrial processes are linear… but education is not”
Key points from Sir Ken Robinson:
the purposes of education are:
1. economic – but not the same as during the industrial revolution and the origins of public education
2. cultural – to pass on cultural genes; but this has to be global
3. personal – the most important, the most forgotten aspect.
“revolutions never come from the top”
principles to observe:
1. make education personal
2. customize education to individual communities
3. curriculum: from subjects to disciplines (focus on skills and processes)
4. knowledge: from static to dynamic
5. education: from solitary to collaborative, passive to active (think drama!)
6. assessment: from judgment to description
“the heart of education is teaching” -
“The future will belong to those who can focus.”
According to one teacher reflecting on the future of education in a hyperconnected world,
The future will belong to those who can focus. This will be an increasingly small and rare group of people.
Read more teachers’ opinions on this topic at: “Teacher express many concerns; you can feel the tension in their words,” an article from the Pew Research center report on the future of the internet titled “Millenials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives.”
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[NYT article] on the predictive power of statistics →
“If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that? ”
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"Our approach will allow universities to provide an alternative to standard lecture classes for on-campus students. We propose a flipped classroom model, in which students use our interactive videos to watch the content in advance, and classroom time is used for a more meaningful and engaging interaction between faculty and students, and between students themselves."
Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, who founded Coursera to scale up efforts to educate the world.
I am highly supportive of this and similar initiatives. Top physicists agree:
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/01/144550920/physicists-seek-to-lose-the-lecture-as-teaching-tool
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
