The Updated Classroom
My brain has been sparked by the post Teaching Ourselves Right Out of a Job over at weblogg-ed. It got me thinking about our role as teachers in today’s classroom, and just how that classroom has changed, is changing, and will change in the future.
I thought about many things, and the thoughts continue.
I thought about teachers as “Trajectory Managers” vs. our normal concept of teacher.
Are we really Trajectory Managers, or Trajectory Facilitators or Coaches? Is our role to “manage” or is our role to “suggest” and “nudge” and “encourage” and “equip”? Manage, to me, implies control and power. Contol and power in the wrong hands?
Posts of note around the topic of learning: Most classroom learning sucks from Kathy Sierra’s blog Creating Passionate Users.
Way more to follow…way more.
The Modern Classroom
Students are “Smarter and faster than we [the school] are.”
Learning is King
Students as Active learners [Active learning defined: North Carolina State University - University of Hawaii
This post is under serious construction…
