WHY?Ira David Socol

Pamela R. Moran

Educology Partners

Why?

Rethinking Differentiation

What is our purpose?What should students take from this

academic activity/endeavor/semester/year?

What will they know?What skills will they have?How will they have changed?

Purpose driven differentiation

Rethinking Technology

Task-basedWhat has to be done?

Environmentally centeredWhere, for Who, under what

circumstances(are environmental constraints valid?)

Student centeredSkills, Comfort, Preferences

Knowledge basedKnowledge of, training with, tools

Rethinking Reading

Reading is getting information from a recorded source into your head.

In a way which allows you to process and work with that information.

Was Homer literate?

Rethinking Writing

Writing is getting information from your head into forms which others can access asynchronously.

“Literature” is an idea far beyond books, and always has been.

Literature is Narrative, and it takes many forms.

Rethinking Space

Why do we teach in rectangles separated from the world?

Do any of you have this kind of furniture at home?

What does space do?

Rethinking Time

Is this a “learning schedule” or a “delivery schedule?”

What does the “school day” do, good and bad?

How do we bring the students’ lives into school and education into the students’ lives.

Rethinking Connections

How do we join our students to the world?

How do we help them learn to build their own connections?

How do we help them learn to build complex networks safely and well?

• Transparent Learning is Visible• Iridescent Learning is Actively Shared• Choice Driven Students Learn to Make Choices by Constantly Making Choices• Connected Learning is Not Constricted by Walls Real, Virtual, or Imagined• Adaptive Spaces Adapt to Students Students Don’t Adapt to Spaces

Transparency (Middle School)

Transparency (High School)