For my last session at Educon, I attended David Warlick's session on Forging Links between Casual Information Practices and Formal Learning Procedures . The nature of information is what's changing. Children in our classrooms are coming from an information experience different from what we had. Next we went to this site for a hands on learning experience . How do we tap in to the energy students have outside school, in our classrooms? The 3 Principles of Learning in the middle of the diagram come from Linda Darling-Hammond. Logical connections can be made between the students outside-the-classroom information experience, and the principles of learning. We then looked at examples of how students experience fits each of the areas, outside the classroom based on our rolls. Students today are... Connected Carrying the communication with them Multiple Perspectives/sources-? Or are they having a transparent conversation? Multi-tasking at the same time.(Medina's "Brain Rules...
Ideas and Tips on Digital Age Learning from Michael Walker. These thoughts and ideas may not represent the views of my employer.