We have spent the better part of the last few weeks getting you up to speed on some of the tools you can use to create and cultivate you PLN. You have looked at theories that support this type of learning and discussed how it applies to you. You have thought about your passion and a topic for your 20% project. Now, it is time for you to use this personalization process and begin your learning journey. . .It will look different for each of you. What should be the same is that you are each learning. . .Learning about a topic in depth, about how to connect to other like-minded educators, about how to take responsibility for what you get out of this course, about how to really learn. . .I mentioned last week, and we discussed in class, that you need to begin to cultivate your PLN. This includes doing more reading, writing, connecting, and sharing online. . .You are beginning your professional/educational "residency." Uh, yeah, about that. . .I didn't see too much sharing on Twitter, or personal bloggging, or sharing of resources. . .I hope this will be the last week of relative inactivity. I will go over the matrix that I have created on how to cultivate a PLN, but you are going to be the ones responsible for your learning from this point forward. I can create conditions under which you can learning, but any actual learning is completely up to you.
Tonight, we will discuss the first part of Pink's book and how it relates to education. I gave you the following guidelines on Edmodo:
1. What is the Conceptual Age (explain in detail).Here is a link to my notes on the first part of Pink's book from last year. I will continue to give you reading that you can blog about. I think Edmodo does a great job allowing me to give you a virtual checklist of what you should be doing and for you to check your progress. I have begun to give you credit for your work in Edmodo. . .please look for my comments and resubmit if you have missing or incomplete work.
2. Why does Pink believe this "Conceptual Age" requires a whole new mind?
3. Do you agree or disagree with Pink and why? (Don't forget to read and comment on the work of your peers.)
Question: What is your biggest "takeaway" from the first part of Pink's book? (click the comment and add your response)
My biggest takeaway is how little our current education system fosters creativity and R-directed thinking. In order for us to teach this and prepare students for the future it will require an overhaul on our part in the classroom, which is scary and exciting at the same time.
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ReplyDeleteThe biggest "takeaway" for me from the first part of the Pink book is the excitement about the need to shift towards more "R-directed" learning in the classroom. During my practicum I was privileged to be in an 8th grade classroom with an R-directed teacher. He had his students provide some type of artistic monument for Andrew Jackson. They could choose to make it a positive or negative one, and then they had to write about why they choose specific symbols and elements in their monument. The teacher invited the students to make it 3D out of a shoe box, or in a computer drawing program, etc. I think these are the types of assignments we should give students.
ReplyDeleteThe biggest take away for me is the notion that the L-directed mindset is no long sufficient anymore. It is necessary but it must be conjoined with the R-Directed thinking. These two hemispheres of our brains and what they consists of is very interesting.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest takeaway from it was from the point of view of an educator. What learning looks like in the classroom. I firmly believe that the R-Directed thinking needs to be blended into L-Directed thinking, that both need each other in order for our students to make the leap to 21st century skills. We need to make sure that our students know the skills that are starting to become valued in the workforce. If we teach our students these skills and a show them we value skills such as collaboration, creativity... then they can in turn take these into the workforce and hopefully prove to not be easily replaced :)
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