YGTA Council Pinecrest Session 1. Introduction - Where? Why? Who I - - PDF document

YGTA Council Pinecrest Session

• 1. Introduction
• Where? Why? Who I am? Who I represent?

Markville History: www.markvillehistory.com

FINDING PURPOSE

• In your video’s from the True Depiction Project words like: freedom, respect, community resonated,

as did your vision of what is the right way to learn along with ways of teaching that do not resonate with you. What is powerful is the critical analysis, the deconstruction of your learning environment and visioning out solutions to the challenges that lie before you.

• 2. Is Education Obsolete?

The Evolving Role of the Student and The Evolving Role of the Instructor

• in vogue to talk about 21st Century learners
• there are no definitive answers, the process is ever evolving
• what has changed is the pace and the demand for change
• website example (thought it would take 10 years in 1997... its 15 years and we are not there yet)

Harkness Model

• 1. What are the fundamental traits (positive and negative) of a

21st Century learner?

• 2. How are your needs different than mine?
• 3. What are the changes you think need to be made?

1993 vs Today

* Sugata Mitra: The Future of Learning (TED Talks) * Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms (RSA Animate) * Ken Robinson: Escaping Education’s Death Valley (TED Talks) Transition... Deciphering what education is and what it should be...

• 3. Importance of the Individual

Video: How Bad do you Want it (Success) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSC2vx7zFQ

Talk/Listen Line

• 1. What do you want out of your education?
• 2. Why are you going to school? University? etc
• 3. What is your responsibility as a student?
• 4. List the key traits that make a great teacher.
• 5. What makes you want to learn?
• 6. Where do the biggest problems lie in education?
• 7. What do we need to do to make the education system better?

* Share the answers, record on a Google Doc/Chart Paper Transition... becoming an Outlier

• 1. Uses of a ________________
• 2. Microsoft Question
• 3. 10000 hours

• 4. Brain activity
• stretch the brain

Individual, Partner, Table Analysis The Picture

• 1. What do you see?
• 2. What explains what you see?

The Video

• 1. Talk about what is happening in the video

The Simpson’s What is Time?

• semiotics, Homer Simpson
• looking at things from different perspectives
• a general philosophical theory of signs and symbols that deals especially with their

function in both artificially constructed and natural languages and comprises syntactics, semantics, and pragmatics

Transition: Thinking Differently... travel... diversify... separate yourself... lead

• 5. Value of Travel

Video: Make it Count Photos of Travel * travel through the years... 1988 Italy 1998 NYC... learned fundamental lessons 2001 Hawaii - 2013 Washington and looking ahead Fundamental Goal: Help students find a passion for travel, learning for the sake of learning, importance of relationships

Transition: So what? Put your money where your mouth is... Your educational philosophy...

• 6. Educational Philosophy

The Latest Terms: Differentiated Instruction, Individualized Learning, Authentic Performance Task, Formative Assessment, Summative Evaluation, Flipped Classroom, Google Docs, Moodle, Critical Thinking, Literacy, Digital Literacy, etc...

• Good pedagogy is good pedagogy
• student is at the heart of education
• constructivist learning
• non-judgemental environment
• always keep learning and putting yourself in the role of student
• reflective

Margaret Heffernan: Dare to Disagree (TED Talks)

Reflective Internal Discourse (aka Journal) What is your Philosophy of Education? Other questions to consider:

• what have you added to the education of those around you?
• look ahead 10, 15, 20 years... what do you want to become?
• what do you want to learn? how will you achieve these goals?

• 7. Role of Technology

Wrapping it Up

Your role, our role in the future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ