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It is a privilege to be working with the Greater Essex County District School Board again and especially to be engaged, once again, in conversations about the future of schooling — a future that you are attempting to identify and apply to today’s schools.
It is a critical part of this conversation that today’s world, information environment, and students are the reason why we are looking into the future — to realize that we are, too often, looking from the perspective of the past. Our schools are still, in too many ways, a reflection of past notions of what education is and what it looks like.
I hope that one of the main ideas that comes out of this conversation is that education is a verb, not a noun. It is not a goal to be accomplished or a task to be completed. Education is a lifestyle that continues beyond the borders of classrooms and campuses, and beyond the borders of graduation. Learning is lifelong. Learning is a lifestyle.
I will kick off our sessions with a presentation about our students. It is called Cracking the ‘Native’ Information Experience. It looks at how our students use information in their outside the classroom experiences, and seeks to identify some of the qualities of that experience that make is so compelling and potentially educational.
Below are some links to online handout resources related to this talk and to our conversations.
| Blooms New Taxonomy | |
| Creating | assemble, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, write. |
| Evaluating | appraise, argue, defend, judge, select, support, value, evaluate |
| Analyzing | appraise, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test. |
| Applying | choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write. |
| Understanding | classify, describe, discuss, explain, identify, locate, recognize, report, select, translate, paraphrase |
| Remembering | define, duplicate, list, memorize, recall, repeat, reproduce state |
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 Online Handouts by David Warlick is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://davidwarlick.com/. |
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