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Slides of the Keynote my presentation to teachers of English in Valencia on 13th April 2013, as apart of the Macmillan Teachers' Day
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The Case for Social Networking in Education
#MTDValencia 13th April 2013
The internet isn’t going anywhere
“…anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”
Douglas Adams
We are all in this together
Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.Marc Prensky
Were we so different?
All the available tools
Copying down,listening to teacher, accepting what you’re told, working alone, sitting still, remembering facts,showing deference, following instructions... These are the skills needed by a 19th century clerk.
Professor Guy Claxton
The people formerly known as the audience
Professor Jay Rosen
Today the information is everywhere
II can do it
I can do it with the help of others
Zone of Proximal DevelopmentLev Vygotsky
I can’t do it
PUENTEDURA, R R (2006) Transformation, Technology, and Education. (2006) http://hippasus.com/resources/tte/
Time to educate
Can you do better than a duck?
1.Notice positive changes in students’ learning habits
2.Design activities that stretch different ‘learning muscles’
3.Model being a confident learner (not a know-all)
4.Display work in progress and visual tools
5.Give pupils increasing responsibility
6.Attribute performance to the habits, not to ‘ability’
7.Get students talking about the process of learning
Small habit changes for 21st century teachersProfessor Guy Claxton
We need to produce people who know how to act when they are faced with situations for which they were not specifically prepared.
Seymour Papert
Intelligence is knowing what to do when you don't know what to do
Jean Piaget
Learning on demand
Child centred learning
Imagine new possibilities
www.wordpress.com
www.pinterest.com
www.flickr.com
Knowledge transparency
www.josepicardo.com
Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine...should be!Arthur C Clarke
