What’s the best way to improve teaching?
“What’s the best way to improve teaching? Focus on learning. And the best way to increase learning? Move the focus off the teacher and onto the student” David Kolb, 1992
12 claves educativas para la Sociedad digital
Fundación Telefónica
What do you want kids to do with technology?
The motivation behind the image was to remind teachers that carefully thinking through just what we want our kids to know and be able to do is the FIRST step that we need to take when making choices about the role that technology plays in our teaching. Bill Ferriter
A working definition of personalized learning
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Afton Partners, The Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation, CEE Trust, The Christensen Institute, Charter School Growth Fund, EDUCAUSE, iNACOL, The Learning Accelerator, The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Silicon Schools, and educators across the United States, (2014)
Preparar para la vida. Zygmunt Bauman
“El invariable propósito de la educación era, es, y siempre seguirá siendo, la preparación de estos jóvenes para la vida. Una vida de acuerdo con la realidad en la que están destinados a entrar. Para estar preparados, necesitan instrucción, «conocimientos prácticos, concretos y de inmediata aplicación», para usar la expresión de Tullio de Mauro. Y para ser «práctica», una enseñanza de calidad necesita propiciar y propagar la apertura de la mente, y no su cerrazón.” Zygmunt Bauman
In a personalized learning environment, learners have voice…
“In a personalized learning environment, learners have voice in how they prefer or need to acquire information, a choice in how they express what they know and how to engage with the content. When learners have ownership and take responsibility for their learning, they are more motivated to learn and more engaged in the learning process”. (pp 12-13) Bray, B. & McClaskey, K. (2015). Make learning personal. Thousand Oaks, California: Corwin