Learning & Teaching

In a guest post on the The Innovative Educator blog entitled Class size matters only when the teacher does everything, Mark Prensky describes his work helping to integrate technology in elementary and middle school classrooms in New York City schools. During this experience his best idea was to “require that all my students, whenever they had ‘idle’ time . . . spend that time focused on increasing their expertise about whatever their passion was.”

But my final conclusion is this:  As we continue to struggle with introducing more and more technology, it is also extremely important that we train our students to self-direct their own learning, so that they can continually make learning progress, whether or not everything—the technology, the teacher, the weather, or anything else in their life—works perfectly that day. That is why knowing how to continually learn about their own passion is so important.

When all our kids are taught to do this, and actually start putting it into practice, I believe our schools will have made enormous progress.

Filed by Mrs. S at 10:46 am under blogs,instruction,reflection,school reform,technology  Tagged technology
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