Pennsylvania Educational Technology Expo & Conference
Chris Lehmann - School 2.0
Notes: Will clean up and format later.
school is worthy of choice that parents made to send their children
teachers need to see more than disaggregated subgroups
every day we must work harder to be better than yesterday
we must be worthy of parents sending us their children.
John Dewey - read
His bias'
school is not about creating a 21st century workforce
create the 21st century citizen. we will get the citizens we need. shooting for workforce is shooting low.
How will we regain that power?
public education is cornerstone of democracy.
public schooling is under attack
we need to stop talking about failiing schools
data driven decisions issue - assuming you use good data, data isn't
cheap. the data we use is the cheapest data available. The mc scantron
test
accountability(external) vs responsibility(internal),
Just a teacher syndrome is a problem. There is no just - nothing
better. No job more powerful, no job more meaningful. Teachers have
most influence, esp when we work together.
Don't let school happen to you, to your students. Be activists. Fight for what you believe in. We organize!
Lack of humility on both sides. Guilty of thinking I did all I could, it's not my fault they didn't get it.
It's not a question of "what's new?" It's a question of "what's good?" (for kids)
Community based, passionate
True understanding about project based learning. Work of the kids is the asssessment. invert the pyramid.
Traditional classrooms are recall based: Class participation, projects, homework, tests
school is worthy of choice that parents made to send their children
teachers need to see more than disaggregated subgroups
every day we must work harder to be better than yesterday
we must be worthy of parents sending us their children.
John Dewey - read
His bias'
school is not about creating a 21st century workforce
create the 21st century citizen. we will get the citizens we need. shooting for workforce is shooting low.
How will we regain that power?
public education is cornerstone of democracy.
public schooling is under attack
we need to stop talking about failiing schools
data driven decisions issue - assuming you use good data, data isn't
cheap. the data we use is the cheapest data available. The mc scantron
test
accountability(external) vs responsibility(internal),
Just a teacher syndrome is a problem. There is no just - nothing
better. No job more powerful, no job more meaningful. Teachers have
most influence, esp when we work together.
Don't let school happen to you, to your students. Be activists. Fight for what you believe in. We organize!
Lack of humility on both sides. Guilty of thinking I did all I could, it's not my fault they didn't get it.
It's not a question of "what's new?" It's a question of "what's good?" (for kids)
Community based, passionate
True understanding about project based learning. Work of the kids is the asssessment. invert the pyramid.
Traditional classrooms are recall based: Class participation, projects, homework, tests
Comment
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Comment by Michelle Krill on February 23, 2010 at 9:37am - @Ron We are in agreement, then! I appreciate the conversation!
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Comment by Ron Reyer on February 23, 2010 at 9:10am - We take what the teacher says as truth because teachers as authorities (both informational and disciplinary) are required to maintain order. I didn't mean to imply that we should encourage disagreement just not discourage it.
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Comment by Michelle Krill on February 23, 2010 at 9:05am
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@Ron Not sure it's about disagreeing with system/teacher. It's about feeling able to question the process, procedure and content. Some kids take it all in and move on. Questioning is important to be able to be independent thinkers.
I can recall when I was in school, I never had questions about what was being taught. I took the teacher's information as truth. That was it, listen, study, take the test.
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Comment by Ron Reyer on February 23, 2010 at 8:56am
- How do schools teach good citizenry and who's version of good?; Do schools have any responsibility to teach students how to think independently (disagree with the system and / or the teacher and know why they disagree) and how this country, a representative republic based on democratic ideals, was established - Might good citizenry will follow?
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