why are we here?.
used by Lucas to present to curriculum committee - requesting validation for innovation lab courses,
here is a more formal google doc
1. We are seeking validation of some student-centric courses
2. Validation will be requested on an individual basis (created courses, tech interns)
3. This will affect only a very small percentage of TSD students next year. 50-100?
4. Your validation means much more than simply permission
problem:
A) Great lessons- still lack engagement,
asked and listened, ...every answer to a solution was different, ...
less book work, more books, ... less lecture, more lecture, ... less tech, more tech, ...
B) Info tech has been changing so fast for the past few decades that traditional schools and curricula can't keep up 115
2006 - doubling every 2 years, 2010, doubling every 3 days
A) The ideal education is different for each individual 106
The internet changes possibilities for how each of us can learn.. it allows for unlimited individualization and grouping per passion.
It will convert expensive institutions to expansive networks 110
It's not about being online or offline, it's about finding your connection 119
B)
Our best hope np is to get better at empowering individuals to find answers for themselves 134
learning how to learn, that process, is the skill set for the 21st cent, for skills we haven't even thought of yet.
This prototype is being referred to as
personal learning networks 113
1. how to purposefully develop them for rigor
2. how to facilitate and optimally sustain them
3. how to validate them ___________________________________________get why personalization is needed?
what do we want to do?
what do we need from you?
1. a case for pln's
a) passion
not only other chess players that happen to be in his math class, or his school, or district, or state
instructor is the author of the book they are learning from, the author of the technique and history
no trite conversations, most definitely blues clues, flow b) individualization and rigor
because the members of his pln are just as excited as he, he has 24/7 back up, support, accountability, stretching,...feedback, safe place to try and test AND they know the focus isn't chess... but learning how to learn... and mounds of research validate the logic of chess
2. a case for validation
a) chess Joe, isn't going to do it, even though his parents fully support it, reason, "doesn't see it as valid unless it comes from the district."
b) more than permission students need your validation
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities
garrison-like campuses located in high-crime areas, which often lack the most basic needs. ..diminishes poor children's horizons and aspirations.
3.
a starting place
a)
some specifics for
you today
b)
some conversations to help the transition
___________________________________________get why your validation matters?
We limit our youth when we continue to fit validation into rules the ed institutionalism has deemed as the way.
Lucas Let's take a step outside that box...officially... validatingly.
Gabbi Just with this small group... let's test it out... let's see if it has meat... let's give these young people of TSD the reins to play... in the safey of our district... before we send them off.... to search and play on their own.
Gus Along the way, we'll encounter rough spots, growing pains, unintended and unforeseen consequences - but the alternative is to be satisfied with mediocrity, and insufficient supplies of it at that. 132
