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Revisiting Past Posts
November 15, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
Today I decided to take a journey back into some former blog post and as I read some of the following lines resonated with me. Great way to stimulate my day!!! I hope you enjoy.
- “I never would have been allowed to share my ideas and my thoughts. My thoughts and ideas would never have been challenged or tested by hearing comments from others at my table. My learning never would have been enriched by the thoughts and conversations of others.”Delivering Change
- “The social change is the connectivity with other learners who are pursuing the same learning goals. Learners in this network pool their ideas in a series of cooperative exchanges that “can produce, not merely individual goods, but also social goods.” At personal learning network is a place to pool their knowledge (like the exchange on this blog). Once they are pooled, it has the potential to take a life of its own and finds itself in places where it has uses that its creators never intended.” Traditional vs. 21st Learning
- “21st century learning may offer her learner a place to pursue his/her own objectives and ways for the learner to engage in conversations and discussion with others globally. Blogs may offer an avenue to archive the learning. “ Traditional vs. 21st Learning
- “The Element”. Sir Ken states, “the key to this transformation is not to standardize education but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of the each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions (238). The curriculum should be personalized. Learning happens in the minds and souls of individuals–not in the databases of multiple-choice tests (248).” Will Richardson’s blog post
- “We know students process and understand information differently because our brains are different and we each bring different life and cultural experiences to our classrooms. This should matter to the teachers, but the old school of thinking we are back to school and back to teaching and not to back to learning. Teachers too are a part of the learning process. With technology today it helps us target the right approaches for each student. (Solumon & Schrum, 2007)” Teaching with the Brain in Mind
