7 ways to transform your classroom

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7 Ways to TransformYour Classroom

By David Truss

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How will you transform your classroom into an inquiry-driven, collaborative, and engaging

learning environment?

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7 Ways to TransformYour Classroom

“A car is not merely a faster horse.And email is not a faster fax...

Play a new game, not the older game but faster.”

Seth Godin

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How will you transform your classroom into an inquiry-driven, collaborative, and engaging

learning environment?

7 Ways to TransformYour Classroom

It’s not the tool, but how you use it that matters!

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Photo by David Truss

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When students get to choose their own topics, with guidance and support from their teachers, peers and

community members, these learners will produce thoughtful, rich and compelling answers.

When students get to choose their own topics, with guidance and support from their teachers, peers and

community members, these learners will produce thoughtful, rich and compelling answers.

Which of these resources will you use to help

you develop some inquiry based projects?

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http://sciencealive.wikispaces.com

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Neon Mic by fensterbme

An integral part of learning is the ability to share what you’ve learned with others

in meaningful ways.Neon Mic by fensterbme

An integral part of learning is the ability to share what you’ve learned with others

in meaningful ways.

How can you use recording devices to get students prepared for presentations,

or to get students to share their work publicly?

Neon Mic by fensterbme

An important skill to learn is how to ‘write to a specific audience’,

and there is no better way to promote this than to give learners a legitimate audience for their work.

An important skill to learn is how to ‘write to a specific audience’,

and there is no better way to promote this than to give learners a legitimate audience for their work.

What can you do to increase the audience of your students’ work beyond the class

or just you, their teacher?

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"It is no longer enough to dopowerful work if no one sees it.“

Chris Lehmann

Àodìlì / 奥地利 By  ּα on flickr

Collaboration is a learned skill that is essential in today’s world. Have students

collaborate on projects that matter, in many different communities.

Collaboration is a learned skill that is essential in today’s world. Have students

collaborate on projects that matter, in many different communities.

Who do you know in your community (or your online network) that can

share their expertise with your students?

Provided students with many opportunities to be designers, stewards and teachers.

Every student has the potential to lead!

Provided students with many opportunities to be designers, stewards and teachers.

Every student has the potential to lead!

How can you create more authentic leadership opportunities for your students in your class?

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“We can never know the totality of our influence in the world, or what conversations happen in response to our work.”

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Play promotes discovery and invites the idea that we can have fun learning, even from our mistakes.

Ingenuity and creativity are both sparked from an environment that incorporates play into learning.

Play promotes discovery and invites the idea that we can have fun learning, even from our mistakes.

Ingenuity and creativity are both sparked from an environment that incorporates play into learning.

How can you embed ‘Game Design’into your lessons?

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“We have been defining learning according to what is to be learned… while what learners in fact

want is not to learn per se but rather to do.”Stephen Downes

‘Father and son surf lesson in Morro Bay, CA 11 of 12’ by mikebaird on flickr

A key principle in the new learning theory, Connectivism, considers networks to be a central

metaphor for learning. Expose students to a multitude of learning networks.

A key principle in the new learning theory, Connectivism, considers networks to be a central

metaphor for learning. Expose students to a multitude of learning networks.

What tools can you use to connect

students to learning that’s happening in other physical and digital learning spaces?

http://2di.me/7networks

Where do I start?

“To teach is to modeland demonstrate,

to learn is to practice and reflect.”

Stephen Downes

‘Push-ups’ by Ann Truss

It starts with YOU!

How will you (continue to) transform your classroom into an inquiry-driven, collaborative,

and engaging learning environment?

“Where do I start?”

How will you (continue to) transform your classroom into an inquiry-driven, collaborative,

and engaging learning environment?

Pick ONE.

How will you (continue to) transform your classroom into an inquiry-driven, collaborative,

and engaging learning environment?

Seek community (you are not alone).Do something transformative.

Share what you learn.

How will you (continue to) transform your classroom into an inquiry-driven, collaborative,

and engaging learning environment?

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THANK YOU!