Session
2
Recommended - Watch before the class
Grant Lichtman at TEDxDenverTeachers
The rate of change in the world
demands that we re-imagine and restructure the foundational learning
relationship among students, teachers, and knowledge. In September 2012,
pursuing a decades-long passion for transformational education, Grant packed up
his Prius and set off on a solo, nationwide research tour to discover what
schools are doing to prepare students for an evolving future. Find out what he
learned from three months on the road visiting 21 states, 64 schools, and the
great ideas of 500 educators. Presented by Grant Lichtman, Author and
Educational Consultant.
Student
ownership of learning - messy, busy chaotic
Cross
curricular, schools are becoming relevant, self-correcting, authentic
refection, empathy
Schools
are becoming creative spaces, ideate, prototype, creative adaptive, preamble,
dynamic, self-correcting
- Change is described as HARD everywhere he went
- BUT change is Uncomfortable/ Complicated/ Messy - there is a huge difference between these things and HARD
- Student focussed and driven learning environment is messy and busy
- Schools need to ensure that learning goes beyond the classroom
- Schools need to ensure we cross the lines of subjects (Integrate)
- Need to take time everyday to reflect
- Empathy needs to be embedded into everything we do and believe
- Still trying to fit what we know is effective teaching styles and methods into a system that has not changed for decades
- 5th Sphere - Cognitosphere - system of knowledge creation and management
- Where do we want to be - Dewey
- We the adults have created:
- Anchors that control - time, space and subject -my classroom, my subject, my time
- Dams - College Boards/ Content driven - packets of content learning
- Silos - Structures that keep us from communicating and networking - classroom/ departments/ division etc
- We need to teach into the unknown - we need to learn these skills, we don’t know what the future looks like
- Self-evolving learners - we need to become these ourselves - constant change
- Self-evolving educators
- We should be Preparing students for their futures not our pasts
- Challenge: time we stop talking about this and start doing it - fan those brush fires of innovation!!!
- If we teach today as we taught yesterday we ro
