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Questions:

Who owns students' learning in your classroom? Alan November (activote)

Who should own students' learning in your classroom? Alan November (activote)

Who owns your learning as a teacher? What evidence do you have?

What was the last thing you learned?

What made you learn it?

Why is that the case? (Mix-Pair-Share)

How do you learn best? (Talking Chips)

How would your students say you learn best? (written reflection with Round Robin)

Facts/Ponderances:

"Will you show me how to do this?" vs. "I will show myself how to do this."

What kind of learners are we trying to create?

Will Richardson's post. (http://weblogg-ed.com/2007/its-the-empowerment-stupid/)

• Self-learners who are able to navigate the 10 or 15 or however many job changes people are predicting for them by the time they are 30
• Self-selectors who must find and evaluate and finally choose their own teachers and collaborators as they build their own networks of learners
• Self-editors who can look at a piece of information and assess it on a variety of levels, not simply believe it because someone else does
• Self-organizers who can manage the slew of information coming at them by developing their own structures and strategies for making sense of it all
• Self-reflectors who are not solely dependent on external evaluation to drive their decision making and their evolution as learners and people
• Self-publishers who understand the power and importance of sharing and connecting information and knowledge and can do it effectively and ethically
• Self-protectors who understand where the online dangers lie, can recognize them, and can act appropriately to stay away from harm

Of course, all of this requires a certain willingness to relinquish control, not just of the things we know but of the things we don’t know.

 

Hero in the Hallway (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtFtbaKIYyg)

"I see you" clip from FW?

Konrad's post on Action Research (http://www.teachandlearn.ca/blog/2007/05/20/towards-a-personally-negotiated-understanding/)

Difficulties:

Not used to owning learning in the classroom. (use example of posting/creating on Myspace as skills that can transfer into the classroom).

Less teacher control.

Quotes:

We, as teachers, need to be so enthralled with the magnificent possibilities of our occupation that we actually enjoy spending time honing our craft, multiplying our skills. Imagine if every teacher eliminated, for example, 2 hours of television watching each week and devoted it to reading professional materials, poring over the web, or collaborating with colleagues. (http://randyrodgers.edublogs.org/2007/05/13/the-lost-art-of-discovery-and-time-the-enemy/)

Our research, actually looking at what puts kids at risk for receiving the most serious kinds of sexual solicitation online, suggests that it’s not giving out personal information that puts kid at risk. It’s not having a blog or a personal website that does that either. What puts kids in danger is being willing to talk about sex online with strangers or having a pattern of multiple risky activities on the web like going to sex sites and chat rooms, meeting lots of people there, kind of behaving in what we call like an internet daredevil.

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http://ideasandthoughts.org/2007/06/07/just-the-facts/

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