Posts Tagged ‘image’
I am recreating some of my favourite image quotes I created some time ago. This time I use Pablo by Buffer and indicate attribution and CC license.
Dewey’s quote has been my mantra. As a teacher educator, I am acutely aware that teachers tend to teach the way they are taught.
If I do not model alternative and progressive ways to not just teach but also educate, they are not as likely to do differently for the good of our learners.
Note: I am on vacation with my family. However, I am keeping up my blog-reflection-a-day habit by scheduling a thought a day. I hope this shows that reflections do not have to be arduous to provoke thought or seed learning.
Bite-sized lesson 8: Evaluation
Posted on: December 6, 2017
I am recreating some of my favourite image quotes I created some time ago. This time I use Pablo by Buffer and indicate attribution and CC license.
I like this quote because it addresses how academic progress is often measured largely or even solely by paper-based tests. Such tests are yesterday’s measure and they are relatively easy to prepare for and score in.
Today’s educational progress and successful performance has higher order demands and outcomes. Consider soft skillsets like communication and collaboration; factor in literacies digital and scientific; think about metacognition and value systems.
We cannot test those things; they must be experienced, performed, and reflected on. We need to be designing and implementing performative evaluations and e-portfolios. We need to get learners to constantly create, not just consume.
Note: I am on vacation with my family. However, I am keeping up my blog-reflection-a-day habit by scheduling a thought a day. I hope this shows that reflections do not have to be arduous to provoke thought or seed learning.
Bite-sized lesson 7: Different
Posted on: December 5, 2017
I am recreating some of my favourite image quotes I created some time ago. This time I use Pablo by Buffer and indicate attribution and CC license.
This quote addresses at least two things: 1) Change for its own sake, and 2) what it means to be truly innovative.
Doing things differently — like using an “interactive” white board to lecture — does not make things better. This is change for its own sake or because of the heavy financial investment in white elephant technology.
To innovate is to do things better. Some say innovations can be either iterative (doing the same things differently) or disruptive (doing different things). The second half of the quote reminds us that when leveraging on technology, better is accompanied by different. Separate the two and you are not likely to innovate.
Note: I am on vacation with my family. However, I am keeping up my blog-reflection-a-day habit by scheduling a thought a day. I hope this shows that reflections do not have to be arduous to provoke thought or seed learning.
Bite-sized lesson 6: Tools
Posted on: December 4, 2017
I am recreating some of my favourite image quotes I created some time ago. This time I use Pablo by Buffer and indicate attribution and CC license.
This is one of my favourite quotations because it challenges the rhetoric that “technology is just a tool” and that it should be use to merely enhance learning.
Some tools are extremely powerful. So powerful that they change mindsets and behaviours. Take the modern mobile phone for instance. They have changed the way we walk and communicate and they continue to affect the way we learn.
If teachers and administrators want to integrate technology (not just use it) in the curriculum and classroom, they need to acknowledge this fact and learn more about sociotechnical systems and change.
Note: I am on vacation with my family. However, I am keeping up my blog-reflection-a-day habit by scheduling a thought a day. I hope this shows that reflections do not have to be arduous to provoke thought or seed learning.
I am recreating some of my favourite image quotes I created some time ago. This time I use Pablo by Buffer and indicate attribution and CC license.
Remember bite-sized lesson 2: question? In it I referred to the importance of using the pedagogy of questions (PoQ), not just the pedagogy of answers (PoA).
However, simply asking factual or low-level questions is not representative of the PoQ. It is not just about searching for answers and getting them right. This focuses on the product of learning.
The PoQ is more about the processes of teaching, e.g., asking the unGoogleable questions, and of learning, e.g., analysing and evaluating what is found.
Note: I am on vacation with my family. However, I am keeping up my blog-reflection-a-day habit by scheduling a thought a day. I hope this shows that reflections do not have to be arduous to provoke thought or seed learning.
Bite-sized lesson 4: Vigilance
Posted on: December 2, 2017
I am recreating some of my favourite image quotes I created some time ago. This time I use Pablo by Buffer and indicate attribution and CC license.
No one really likes watchdogs because they sound the alarm when they sense danger around something they are protecting. But everybody needs them. So Jon Stewart’s call to be vigilant is particularly important in the era of fake news and false prophets.
Note: I am on vacation with my family. However, I am keeping up my blog-reflection-a-day habit by scheduling a thought a day. I hope this shows that reflections do not have to be arduous to provoke thought or seed learning.
Bite-sized lesson 3: Change
Posted on: December 1, 2017
I am recreating some of my favourite image quotes I created some time ago. This time I use Pablo by Buffer and indicate attribution and CC license.
This quote is about recognising that we are all part of a larger social system, e.g. schooling and education. If we are not part of the solution, then we are part of the problem. If we are not pushing and pulling for meaningful change, then we are maintaining the status quo to the overall detriment of the system.
Sometimes change agents need to move or create movement even when the system is not ready and terribly unforgiving. If the attempts to change fail, change agents need to apologise for the fall and pick themselves up.
If the change succeeds, everybody wins. The change agents might still need to apologise for creating a fuss in the first place.
Note: I am on vacation with my family. However, I am keeping up my blog-reflection-a-day habit by scheduling a thought a day. I hope this shows that reflections do not have to be arduous to provoke thought or seed learning.
