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Realities of Digital Culture
Organic Leadership
Components of Organic Community
- Patterns
- Participation
- Measurement
- Growth
- Power
- Coordination
- Partners
- Languages
- Resources
People are naturally curious, but they are not naturally good thinkers.
It is not possible to think well on a topic in the absence of factual knowledge on a topic.
Memory is the residue of thought. The best barometer for every lesson is a consideration of about what it will cause the students to think.
Why is it so hard for students to understand abstract ideas? We understand new things in the context of things we already know.
Proficiency requires practice. Remember the "workbench" metaphor.
Students may not be able to "think like an expert"--at least not yet! Cognition is fundamentally different early and later in training.
Think about lesson content, not student differences, driving decisions about how to teach. The work of Gardner and Pink should still deepen your toolbox about "how to teach," but every student does not need to be seen as an entirely separate and disconnected project unto itself.
Intelligence can be changed through sustained hard work. Seeming geniuses often benefitted most from having sustained opportunities for practice. This should provide all of us digital immigrants with some hope as well!
Improvement requires more than experience. It also requires conscious effort and feedback. That is why it is different to teach or administrate for thirty, distinctive years than to teach or administrate the same year thirty times.
PREZI
Youtube
Kindle
Digital Response Pads
Digital Storytelling
The MTM Project
or, how NOT to lose your school, staff, identity, or mind in the 21st century
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Technology...sort of
Brain Research and School Practice
The Administrator's
Digital Tools
Skype
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Implications for Us as Leaders