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“The Audrey Test”: Or, What Should Every Techie Know About Education?
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“The Audrey Test,” Part 2: What Educators Need to Know about Tech
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Why Kids Need Schools to Change | MindShift
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In education, although there are great new models of learning and schooling, they are the exceptions, and the progressive movement has not gained much momentum.
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“I’m astounded at the glacial pace of change in education,” she said. “Like many academic areas, there’s a huge disconnect between what’s known and what’s in practice. It’s very slow moving.”
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“The biggest impact you’ll have as a teachers is the relationship you establish with your student.”
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Try to integrate what students are interested in within what’s happening in class, get to know each student, and have high expectations.
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“There’s probably no better example of the throttling of creativity than the difference between what we observe in a kindergarten classroom and what we observe in a high school classroom,”
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In an ideal world, the school day would reflect kids’ changing needs and rhythms.
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There would be time for free play; school would start later to allow time for students’ much-needed rest; the transition time between classes would be longer, allowing time for kids to walk down the hall and say hi to their friends and plan their next moves; kids would have the opportunity to step away from school “work” in order to regroup and process what they’ve absorbed. “The actual encoding of information doesn’t take place when you’re hunched over a desk,” she said.
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arts would be integrated into a curriculum, not as an ancillary addition, but as a primary part of learning.
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PROJECT BASED LEARNING.
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ALTERNATIVE ASSESSMENT.
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SCHEDULING.
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CLIMATE OF CARE.
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PARENT EDUCATION.
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