Oct 06, Pete Welter rated it it was amazing. I've read enough Richardson to know that he and I generally agree, and his reading list an mine match up pretty exactly, so I'm not sure I learned a huge amount from this.
I thought his quote on giving assessments that were "open network" rather than closed book was dead on. It's disheartening to see my girls taking tests that rely on them memorizing stuff that they just won't remember at all - and with good reason, because they can look it up in a few seconds on Google.
I'm not quite as with Richardson on the need to gradually transition. However, that's detail and the general message of the book is definitely worth reading. Mar 25, Heather rated it it was amazing. Every parent must read this book.
Schools must change, and educators need informed parents to help us reimagine school for our children. We have an education system designed to meet the needs of the 20th century. We are not preparing our kids for the world they will enter in years. The critical skills they need have changed from when we were young.
Read this short book to launch your education of how we need to redesign schools to really provide the education our children need. May 31, Cathy rated it really liked it. I think this book is an important one for any parent, grandparent, educator, administrator, businessperson -- human.
If nothing else, it will serve to get a conversation started, and we need to be talking about this. Sep 26, Nancy rated it really liked it. Nice to get an easily read, unpadded book for low cost, via e-reader. If most books on education were this thoughtful and readable, perhaps more educators, parents and policy-makers would avail themselves of good thinking on education. Not much in the book is new thinking, but it's a very cogent summary of why we're in such trouble, educationally, in America.
Jul 19, Pete rated it liked it Shelves: school. Some good and important questions were raised in this book around what it means to "learn" in an age that has put the world, via technology, at our fingertips.
And these questions were nicely embedded and contextualized in critiques of the profit-motive in neoliberal education "reforms". New paradigms for learningespecially those that go beyond droll standards-based educationare surely needed. And I appreciated this book for that. But I still struggle with reconciling these kinds of conver Some good and important questions were raised in this book around what it means to "learn" in an age that has put the world, via technology, at our fingertips.
But I still struggle with reconciling these kinds of conversations about school with the big conversations that center on social and racial justice. Are they really just separate conversations? Or do we have to pick and choose? Something I will continue to think about Feb 23, Kevin rated it really liked it.
Good wake up call for change Well thought out, yet short and sweet summary about how education is changing whether we want it to or not, and we'd best get on board with breaking the old paradigms so our kids have the best possible future. Mar 12, Catalina Latorre neira rated it really liked it. Great arguments, great stories, great examples. The only thing that's not really clear for me is if his kids still go to a traditional school I would like to see how Richardson is working with his own children.
I haven't watched the TED video yet Nov 20, Cassandra rated it liked it. I read this as part of a class that I took, Ownership of Learning. The book was like a narration of a Ted Talk. He provided a lot to think about but did not provide data to support his opinions. Aug 12, Fernando Martinez rated it it was amazing. Aug 15, Sherrice Mojgani rated it it was amazing.
This quick read is very relevant in this landscape where everything must change, and should change. Oct 23, Thomas Fackler rated it liked it Shelves: nonfiction , , ebook , education. What world will we have when we can pick and choose how and with whom we fulfill our curiosity.
Jul 21, Kirsty rated it really liked it. Started off really great—fresh writing and original concept. Mar 06, Fab rated it liked it. I should imagine most teachers, like myself, are already integrating new technology into their lessons, as well as a lot of research projects, videos etc. I should also think that, as he suggests, most teachers are constantly learning, at least about our profession, new methods and materials come along all the time and we need to be aware of them and question our teaching regularly.
However, I'd like to answer his question why school? Other criteria are racist, sexist, or just too subjective. I doubt we will ever find the perfect school system, but I'll be following the debate. I read this book while considering the charter schools initiative that's on our ballot this November. Richardson's main point is that in an age where there is an abundance of information available e.
Leaving aside for a moment whether or not I agree with this position I don't entirely , he makes a valid point about many o I read this book while considering the charter schools initiative that's on our ballot this November. Leaving aside for a moment whether or not I agree with this position I don't entirely , he makes a valid point about many of the school "reform" ideas being championed currently.
The author's description of what a classroom experience looks like when a teacher helps his or her class "discover" the lesson rather than delivering it , is truly inspiring. These are ideas worth reading and thinking about if you want to join in the school reform conversation.
Feb 04, Derrick Schneider rated it did not like it. While I definitely agree with the book's ideas, it's not clear that it's saying anything particularly new or different. This reads to me like a TED talk: lots of waving hands and talking big ideas from a person of privilege, but precious few facts.
The anecdote he uses to launch the book is of his son who has time restrictions on Call of Duty, but is one day allowed a full day to play Minecraft with his friends. So, let's see: an XBox, a computer, Internet access, a social milieu of similar-class While I definitely agree with the book's ideas, it's not clear that it's saying anything particularly new or different.
They should then model these skills for the kids that are in the classrooms. The most important thing we can help our kids with now is developing them as learners, and they need to see us do that as well. I think standardized testing does more harm than it does good. So, I think we have to rethink assessment. The interesting thing is that in a lot of places around the world, people are pushing back against these standardized assessments. I think that any learning environment that engages kids is one that allows them to pursue what they have a passion and an interest in.
Those are the types of learning environments where kids are fundamentally most joyous and interested, and are doing amazing work. I think we still have this very traditional mindset. We hear these traditional narratives about what schooling is and what the pathway through school is.
Everyone needs to take this particular subject at this particular time, they need to take this particular assessment from this particular teacher. So the structures are rooted in the way that we do school, and governments could do a better job of encouraging people in education to innovate. Encouraging them to look at different ways of structuring schools and the type of work that we do in classrooms with kids, but to do that they need to educate.
When I got engaged in those conversations with other people from around the world, it was a powerful moment and it changed the way I thought about schools, about teaching and about education in general. Now, each one of us has to have the dispositions and skills to edit the world as it comes to us.
What can schools do to implement some of your ideas? The next 10 years are going to be exceedingly difficult for schools to navigate the gap between maintaining the traditional curriculum that reformers want and providing the learning opportunities and literacies that kids desperately need today, opportunities that few outside of education are asking for.
I think the first step is that educators have to reexamine their own learning practice and move toward becoming more networked and connected themselves. The educational process is pretty slow-moving and sclerotic. Do you have hope that these changes will be made? I have hope because I see more and more individual classrooms that are beginning to understand what abundance means, places where teachers and kids are getting connected, doing real, meaningful, beautiful work for real audiences that help students become true modern learners in the process.
I have hope because every one of us knows that amazing relationships and amazing learning happens in those real life places we call school, that they are an important part of our communities and histories. The fact is that schools are not going to go away in the near term for a host of reasons. It has to. And most of that insanity stems from the multi-billion dollar month-long war for capturing our attention.
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