The Key to Transforming Instruction: Learning How to Learn

For teachers to transform their classroom practice, the most important skill may be their ability to learn how to learn.

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It is true, until we do not realize that we need to change the way we are approaching our students, until we do not try learning with technology ourselves (I’m not talking about using PPT’s), we will not change our chips about the way we teach. At the end of the day it’s  just a matter of attitude.

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¿Cómo será la educación del futuro?

Un estudio de la ONG estadounidense Getting Smart hace algunas proyecciones y presenta cómo podría ser la educación del futuro, en concreto en 2035.

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Me parece súper interesante lo de  “se acabará la titulitis” Obtener los títulos académicos tras completar los cursos correspondientes al colegio, la escuela secundaria o la universidad seguirá siendo importante.Los estudiantes necesitarán demostrar sus competencias en distintas áreas.

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MindShift – In the real world, my job doesn’t ask me… | Facebook

In the real world, my job doesn’t ask me things I can Google. I have to use critical thinking.

Sketchnote by Sylvia Duckworth, thoughts by @alicekeeler

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Integrating Technology and Literacy

A middle school language arts educator shares his favorite digital tools for text and video annotations, teacher feedback, and formative assessment.

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Breaking the Mold: School Fosters Design and Discovery

Modern learning is more about discovery. It’s not so much waiting as doing, says Will Richardson. Learners should be empowered to continue learning and to use their interests to fuel projects that they care about. Richardson had some ideas about how teachers can begin to move away from content delivery and towards a model that is supportive of individual learners.

Source: blogs.kqed.org

In Peru, those with control over education policy are making decisions on the old model of schooling — knowledge held by teachers who deliver information to students — while young learners are clamoring for something different.

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How the Power of Interest Drives Learning

Research shows that interests powerfully influence our academic and professional choices. When we’re interested in a task, we work harder and persist longer, bringing more of our self-regulatory skills into play.

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So what is interest? Interest is a psychological state of engagement, experienced in the moment, and also a predisposition to engage repeatedly with particular ideas, events, or objects over time. Why do we have it? Interest acts as an “approach urge” that pushes back against the “avoid urges” that would keep us in the realm of the safe and familiar. Interest pulls us toward the new, the edgy, the exotic. Interest “diversifies experience.” But interest also focuses experience. In a world too full of information, interests usefully narrow our choices.

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So Bill Gates Has This Idea for a History Class …

Should one of the world’s richest men get to dictate the future of how we learn about our past?

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Love it, that´s why he´s a genious. This is how Bill Gates thinks history should be taught in schools.

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Let’s Be Honest: We Don’t Know How to Make Great Teachers

Even though states and districts are choking on data, Bernard Fryshman writes, there’s still very little understanding of what constitutes great teaching.

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Preparing a teacher is in a certain sense far more challenging than preparing other professionals. For all its variations, the physician’s focus on the human body is limited. So is the building studied by the architect and the court of law facing the lawyer.

The classroom awaiting the teacher, on the other hand, is almost infinite in its variations. We mentioned the hundred or so language groups. Now consider categories such as race, religion, sex, economic background, and age. Keep in mind variations in ability, in social problems—interests, physical and mental changes—the list is unending. In a word, there is no professional preparatory program that can encompass every population, let alone every eventuality.

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Report: English as a medium of instruction | British Council

The increase in English as a medium of instruction (EMI) has important implications for education. This research begins to map the use of EMI in order to understand why and when it is used.

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There is a fast-moving worldwide shift towards using English as a medium of instruction (EMI), not so  long ago known as CLIL, for academic subjects such as science, mathematics, geography and medicine. EMI is increasingly being used in universities, secondary schools and even primary schools.

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How Flipped Classrooms Are Growing and Changing

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The teaching method is approaching “mainstream” status, according to the report.

Cecilia Rosas‘s insight:

The flipped classroom concept, pioneered by teacher and author Jon Bergmann, swaps homework time with lecture time, meaning students first listen to or watch a lecture about a topic outside of school before learning more about it in class.

The concept has been around for years, but it’s now coming close to "mainstream" status. Pero en Perú ni la sombra.

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