Lets talk about learning
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This document discusses learning and education. It contains 3 main points: 1. Learning involves having expectations, experiencing failures of those expectations, and adapting one's understanding based on new explanations. True learning happens through doing, failing, and receiving just-in-time teaching to try again. 2. Many students' goals in school are not focused on learning, but rather on getting good grades, credits, or pleasing parents. Half of students are disengaged from or undermining the learning process. 3. For real learning to occur, students should be learning disciplines through practice, not just learning about them. The future of education involves applying skills like prediction, modeling, and teamwork to authentic experiences.
Lets talk about learning
- 1. Lets Talk About Learning iCiL 2012 Colby
- 2. “Nothing is so common as the desire to be remarkable.” William Shakespeare 2 ✔
- 4. When somebody says that a student needs to “know” something …. They should be asked to add “in order to …” 4
- 5. The Intentions Of Kids When They Come To School • Get Grades • Serve Time • Socialize …and not necessarily in this order! 5 ✔
- 6. “A teachers’ job is not to teach kids. A teacher’s job is to create meaningful, engaging work whereby kids learn the things we want them to learn.” – Phil Schlecty ✔ 6
- 7. Stages Of Learning And Growth Conscious Conscious Incompetence Competence Consciousness Unconscious Unconscious Incompetence Competence (Start) Competence 7
- 8. Course • QPA Regulations ... http://www.ksde.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1787#91-31-31 • (p) "Unit of credit" means a measure of credit that may be awarded to a student for satisfactory completion of a particular course or subject. A full unit of credit is credit that is awarded for satisfactory completion of a course or subject that is offered for and generally requires 120 clock-hours to complete. Credit may be awarded in increments based upon the amount of time a course or subject is offered and generally requires to complete. Individual students may be awarded credit based upon demonstrated knowledge of the content of a course or subject, regardless of the amount of time spent by the student in the course or subject. • Our Suggestion ... • (p) “Unit of credit” means a measure of credit that may be awarded to a student for satisfactory demonstration of mastery of a set of standards which comprise a "course." • The individual who validates mastery of the identified standards must be certified in the state of Kansas in the appropriate subject area. 8
- 9. Driving Exam Two Parts – Written Exam … Conscious Knowledge – Driving … Non - Conscious Knowledge ✔ 9
- 10. How Does Learning Work? • You have a goal (something that you want to happen) • You have an expectation that a plan of action will achieve it • The plan fails (this is what it means to have an important experience … expectation failure) • You need an explanation of why your expectation was wrong (this is called thinking -- or teaching) • You adapt an old explanation or someone provides you with a new one • You create a new expectation and try again … 10 ✔
- 11. Student Goals • Learn • Get a good grade • Get into a good college • Please mom and dad • Keep mom and dad off their back • Get a credit • Get through • Disrupt 11 ✔
- 12. Gallup Found Half of students are either going through the motions at school or actively undermining the teaching and learning process. 12 ✔
- 13. Definition Of Insanity Doing something over and over, and expecting different results. 13
- 14. Any real learning experience includes: • An actual experience • A story that demands telling about that experience • Cognitive processes get honed by the experience • Teaching that is done just in time • Actually accomplishing something … 14 ✔
- 15. People Learn in Two Ways • They learn by doing (try, fail, explain, try again) • They learn just in time (try, fail, get help, try again 15 ✔
- 16. The Fundamental Cognitive Processes 1. Prediction 7. Causation 2. Modeling 8. Judgment 3. Experimentation 9. Influence 4. Evaluation 10.Teamwork 5. Diagnosis 11.Negotiation 6. Planning 12.Describing 16 ✔
- 17. We understand and remember the world in terms of expectations • We remember expectation failures • We remember ours (or other’s) explanations • We alter our memories as a result 17
- 18. Your “Sweet Spot” – Jim Collins What are you PASSIONATE about? What can What drives you be the the CASH? BEST at? 18
- 19. Things are true … until they aren’t. 19 ✔
- 20. Instead of learning about, students should be learning the discipline of … Howard Gardner - Five Minds For The Future ✔ 20
- 21. In Real Life, as opposed to School... learning is about practice 21 ✔
- 22. “The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed.” – William Gibson 22 ✔
- 23. Schools Are... If you asked high school kids to describe school in one word, what word would they choose? Is boredom a desirable condition for learning to occur? 23
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