in our schools we must…
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With all of the high-tech gadgetry cascading into our lives, you might have thought this book would be bout teaching students how to use technology. In my view, the use of technology in the classroom is not the critical issue facing us in education in the 21st century. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
With all of the high-tech gadgetry cascading into our lives, you might have thought this book would be bout teaching students how to use technology. In my view, the use of technology in the classroom is not
the critical issue facing us in education in the 21st century.
The issue of foremost importance is to develop thinking skills in our students so that they will be able to utilize the power of technological tools to solve problems and to do useful work.
People who possess technology skills but lack independent problem solving skills are useless until someone tells them what to do. The use of technology needs to be taught along with the higher-level thinking skills required to solve problems. People with these independent problem solving skills plus technology proficiency will have great power and will be effective, productive participants in families,
communities, and businesses...what students need first and foremost are effective thinking skills.
Teaching for Tomorrow pg. 84
In our schools we must…
Resist the temptation to tell
Problems first, teaching second
Progressively withdraw from helping students
Reevaluate evaluation
Stop teaching decontextualized content
Stop giving students the final product of our thinking
Ted McCain
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UDL Paradigm Shift: How UDL changes the way we think
about students and education
Old Assumptions New Assumptions
Instructional adjustments need to be made for at risk students.
Learning is centered on a single text book.
The problem is with the student – remediate, remediate, remediate…
Instructional adjustments need to be made for all learners.
Learning materials are varied, digital.
The solution is within the learning environment. A flexible learning environment adapts to the needs of all students.
Center for Applied Special Technologies, CAST www.cast.org
Students who learn differently constitute a separate category.
Students who learn differently fall along a continuum of learner differences.
Jobs/Careers* Our Students Will Have
Nuclear Pharmaceuticals
Injectable Tissue Engineer
Mechatronics (smart controlled actuators).
Grid computing
Molecular imaging
Nanoimprinting Lithography
Software assurance
Glyconics
Quantum cryptography
Agriceuticals and Biopharmaceuticals
Designer optics
Skills for the 21st Century
Cooperative Learning and Perseverance
Critical and creative thinking
Digital literacy/information literacy
Inquiry (think like a scientist)- enlightened skepticism
Problem solving
Decision making
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of K_12 Students Today.wmv
Where to from here?
• “So if we know all of this why aren’t we changing?”
• What do you see in classrooms today that gives you hope?
• What questions do you have and who will answer them?
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