OLDaily Text Edition ~ Mar 08, 2016

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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Mar 08, 2016
Making Sense of Blended Learning: Treasuring an Older
Tradition or Finding a Better Future
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From the summary in the Contact North newsletter: "A
consensus is emerging that blended learning, a term that
embraces various combinations of classroom presence and
online study, will become the most common approach to
teaching and learning in higher education. Does this
consensus simply aim to safeguard the tradition of
face-to-face teaching against an invasion of fully online
learning - or can blended learning raise higher education
to new levels of effectiveness and quality?"
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Stop Innovating In Schools
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What Will Richardson means, of course, is that instead of
constantly focusing on teachers, we should invest in
learners. "The vast majority of “innovation” I’ve
seen in my visits to schools around the world doesn’t
amount to much change at all in the area where we need it
most: using those new methods, ideas, or products to shift
agency for learning to the learner." He cites author
Seymour Sarason Link "the goal is not to
force kids to abandon their passions and interests for our
curriculum when they come to school, which is what we
currently do... we must start with their questions and
curiosities, and bring our world to them." Too true.
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Good scientist or successful academic? You can't be both
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I can't say I have any disagreement with this chart either.
As the author says, "I find it interesting to find and
connect puzzle pieces that make up a bigger picture of how
the world works. Engaging in practices that are currently
required in order to be a successful scientist goes
directly against this ideal. In other words, when I chose
my career, I did not want to play a dirty game of selling
myself, sucking up to the right people, and publishing
results that I don’t even believe in myself."
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