Monday, March 9
Keynote: how the crowd will change education
Charles Best
1.Classroom teacher. Entrepreneur. Philanthropist.
2.Donorschoose.org Teachers ask. You choose. 3.Kickstarter projects: Garbage truck Ballet - Trash Dance. Etsy. 4.DonorsChoose: Nothing standing between teacher ideas and getting it funded. New market place where gatekeepers don't stand in your way. Crowdfunding. NO MORE GATEKEEPERS. 5.Taught in the Bronx. 6. Funded his first 9 projects himself. 7. Teacher submits project request. Use teachers who have about 20 projects on the site to approve new ones. Don't give catch, they purchase the product and send it to the teacher Donors hear from teachers and students. Biggest driver of donations was screwing up and admitting it. |
Social Teaching for Social Learning
http://socialteachingsociallearning.weebly.com
Kyle LivieBentley School - Dean of Academics, Dean of Teaching & Learning, History Teacher
Wanted students to understand how to make history. How to craft narrative. Help students master the research process.
The assignment:
Used Google Docs for collaboration
Jane Hammons University of California at Berkeley
Fluency in talking about using Twitter, blogging, curation has helped them to get a job.
Richard Freishtat UC Berkeley - Sr Consultant
Digital tools, pedagogy and citizenship. Ranges from early adopters to "wait and see" to resistors.
1. Not in their comfort zone. Takes too much time to get there.
2. Giving up authority. Role of the teacher shifts and being comfortable with that is hard. Rigor and efficiency get confused. If my classroom is efficient than there is rigor - not true.
3. Grading. How do I grade it?
What do you do to push them in this continuum
1. Good teaching can happen in any space for place. It is only restricted by the teacher and the students. Where you do see the commonalities is the reactions of the students. We need to move past prescribing what good teaching looks like.
2. Just do one new thing each time you teach a class. Assess it: what worked, what didn't work.
3. Find ways to spotlight the best practice and exemplar teachers. Peer pressure works beyond Kindergarten.
4. Student Outcomes
Kyle LivieBentley School - Dean of Academics, Dean of Teaching & Learning, History Teacher
Wanted students to understand how to make history. How to craft narrative. Help students master the research process.
The assignment:
Used Google Docs for collaboration
Jane Hammons University of California at Berkeley
Fluency in talking about using Twitter, blogging, curation has helped them to get a job.
Richard Freishtat UC Berkeley - Sr Consultant
Digital tools, pedagogy and citizenship. Ranges from early adopters to "wait and see" to resistors.
1. Not in their comfort zone. Takes too much time to get there.
2. Giving up authority. Role of the teacher shifts and being comfortable with that is hard. Rigor and efficiency get confused. If my classroom is efficient than there is rigor - not true.
3. Grading. How do I grade it?
What do you do to push them in this continuum
1. Good teaching can happen in any space for place. It is only restricted by the teacher and the students. Where you do see the commonalities is the reactions of the students. We need to move past prescribing what good teaching looks like.
2. Just do one new thing each time you teach a class. Assess it: what worked, what didn't work.
3. Find ways to spotlight the best practice and exemplar teachers. Peer pressure works beyond Kindergarten.
4. Student Outcomes