Dealing with New Realities: What Matters Now

Dean ShareskiSeLNO

Thunder Bay, ONNovember 18,2013

WHAT MATTERS NOW

DEALING WITH NEW REALITIES

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Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.


“My argument is not with educational research but with the imperative of evidence-based education policy. At its best, educational research can provide important insights into the relationship between various social and cultural variables and pedagogic outcomes.”


But the principal problem educators face today is not the dearth of educational research or a lack of evidence about ‘what works’, but

rather the increasing absence of any opportunity for them to exercise professional judgment and to learn the value of what Aristotle call phronesis – the virtue of judgment.

Experimentation in education should be part of a teacher’s everyday life.

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“People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of thingsthey weren't so crazy about the first time around.” ~Author Unknown




What Matters Less Now?

school

grades

grades

“MEASURABLE OUTCOMES MAY BE THE

LEAST SIGNIFICANT RESULT OF LEARNING”

Dr. Linda McNeil

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Consumption CreationReading

Listening

Viewing

Writing

Speaking

Representing

Consumption Creation

ReadingListening

Viewing

WritingSpeaking

Representing

WHAT MATTERS NOW

DEALING WITH NEW REALITIES




MindfulNess

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Abundance




Abundance Scarcity





Abundance Scarcity

information







Abundance Scarcity

information attention






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Photograhpers having Breakfast

“At this age, they get stuck on Wikipedia being the answer to everything and they forget that people can be a really great resource.”

Research suggests over and over again that people are using mobile devices and social media to connect more with others, even face to face. The technologies of isolation and loneliness were the automobile and the television, and even though we’re starting to see a reversal of the long term rise in social isolation , there continues to be cultural insecurity around loneliness. Which is understandable, but misplacing our worries on one of the few trends that is pushing back against isolation isn’t helpful.

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My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years.

My goal, as a technology writer, would be to discover what the internet had done to me over the years.

“But the internet isn't an individual pursuit, it's something

we do with each other. The internet is where people are.”

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Digital Dualism

Digital Dualism

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Digital Dualism

offline online

Digital Dualism

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Digital Dualismwe have been taught to mistakenly view online as meaning not offline. The notion of the offline as real and authentic is a recent

invention, corresponding with the rise of the online. If we can fix this false separation and view the digital and physical as enmeshed, we will understand that what we do while connected is inseparable from what we do when disconnected.

attention literacy

Do you regularly change routine and structure to focus ATTENTION?

How are you practicing MINDFULNESS?


How are you practicing MINDFULNESS?


What are you doing to help your students more INTENTIONAL with their thought and actions?

COMMUNITY

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The smartest person in the room, is the room. Dave Weinberger

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Tell that to Chris Avenir

Tell that to Chris AvenirRyerson University sites 3 reasons for the case against him.

1.Learning should be hard.

2.There is no structure of regulation for online behavior and that makes it incompatible with academic work.

3.It is our job to protect academic integrity from any threat.

i.e. Unless learning is hard and is directed by certified persons, it’s not valid.

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Mind Your Own Business

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What did you learn from others?

What did you contribute to the learning of others?

“Bringing smart people together is an ancient and effective technique for developing ideas. The Net also lets smart people connect and communicate...

David Weinberger,Too Big To Know

But the Net brings people together in new and occasionally weird configurations—a weirdness that is now being reflected in how expertise works....”


My Learning Project

My Teaching Staff

"Weird configurations"

How are building COMMUNITY?


Have they experienced “WEIRD CONFIGURATIONS”? Have you?


How do you insure they LEARN from others beside you?

Have they experienced “WEIRD CONFIGURATIONS”? Have you?

JOY




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Feel-Bad EducationThe Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joyby: Alfie Kohn

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"Why are our schools not places

of joy?"










I’m appearing to accept an odious premise—namely, that joy must be justified as a means to the end of better academic performance. Not so:

It’s an end in itself.





It's an end in itself.

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It's an end in itself.

















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