FW: Outside the Skinner Box. TOY education issue

 

 

Tosha Caston-Smith

Pre-AP English 9

Spain Park High School

 

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From: Caston-Smith, Tosha
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 6:21 PM
To: Caston-Smith, Tosha
Subject: Outside the Skinner Box. TOY education issue

 

Parts of this have to do with my new teaching plan . This is how we have to do it . Also . I need to learn to code .     "You cannot be expected to teach 21st-century learners if you have not learned in this century. Professional development strategies need to focus on creating the sorts of rich constructive learning experiences schools desire for students, not on using computers to perform clerical tasks. We must refrain from purchasing "teacher-proof" curricula or technology and then acting surprised when teachers fail to embrace it. PD needs to stop rewarding helplessness and embrace the competence of educators."   Tosha Caston-Smith shared with you:   Outside the Skinner Box nais.org - ​The phrase "technology and education" usually means inventing new gadgets to teach the same old stuff in a thinly disguised version of the same old way. Moreover, if the gadgets are computers, the same old teaching becomes incredibly more expensive and biased towards its dumbest parts, namely the kind of rote learning in which measurable results can be obtained by treating the children like pigeons in a Skinner box.1   Available on the App Store.

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