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| Education was about absorbing content |
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| Now, it is about how to navigate in a digital world |
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| Providing content in teacher-directed lessons |
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| Deprives students of the joy and benefit of discovery |
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| In Singapore, mantra is teach less - learn more |
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| use inquiry method and have students explore with teacher as a mentor |
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| sense of how things connect; what works and what does not and why |
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| people who have grown up collaborating, sharing, and creating together online |
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| more effective in increasing academic performance than individual learning - Dennis Harper [GenYes program] |
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| Customizing education [getting rid of factory-style education] |
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| learning inventories and entrance interviews - differentiation |
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| Become a kid watcher - Carol Ann Tomlinson |
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| Study the kids in any way you can - learn to see them as individuals |
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| Is having computers in schools the answer? |
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| No, need web-based learning; student-center learning; turn students in teachers |
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| 8 Norms of Educational Learning |
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Choice
Customization
Transparency
Integrity
Collaboration
Fun
Speed
Innovation |
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Lifelong learning - not teaching to the test
teach them how to learn - not what to know |
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