The SAN Script Thursday, September 25
Wednesday was a great day at St. Anthony – over $340.00 raised for cancer research and a terrific Terry Fox event – what great spirit!!
Thanks sandra and everyone who helped put this great event on!
Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
– Elizabeth Harrison
St. Anthony Today
Boys soccer – McMaster School Nora out
Shayna Tate – mural artist in to meet with all students (in-class) – starts first thing today.
I will try my best to get to every room and spend 10-15 minutes or so talking to each class (depending on what the teachers prefer)
Please inform teachers that due to smaller size of mural, all students in school may not have a chance to paint with me. It is up to teachers to decide students selected and sign then up on my schedule day of. All students ideas will be considered however and the goal is to be inclusive in this way. They are partners with me in designing theme.
This will allow for a better quality mural.
11:00 – Planning and Facilities Principal Orientation Meeting (Paul and Bob) at school
Welcome to BBBSO Lainey for Grades 4/5 and 5/6 students
Dalhousie Daycare Meeting in reading room (2nd floor) all day today
8 Ideas That Will Permanently Break Education As We Know It
Disrupting Education: 8 Ideas That Will Break It Once And For All
As education changes, it depends primarily on internal catalysts for that change. That is, the “things” that change it are on the “inside” of that system itself, most notably data, assessment, PLCs, and running a distant fourth, technology. It’s interesting that technology is among the least impacting “agents of change” in the classroom. Certainly it has caused teachers and districts to update some of their practices (e.g., budgets, teacher training, and IT policies) but very little of their thinking (e.g., peer-to-peer and school-to-school collaboration, assessment forms, and learning models).
At some point, this will change. Eventually the tethers will break and education–in whatever form or forms–will shoot forward like it’s been held back in a slingshot for nearly a century. It may not feel triumphant at first. When things you lean on give way, you flail and panic and yelp. There will probably be a lot of that. In fact, if you stand in the hallway at school or sit in a staff meeting, you can probably hear the yelping now.
Below are 8 ideas that will permanently “break” education as we know it–in the best possible way.
1. Connectivity is replacing knowledge.
2. Student are clients.
3. Adaptive software can replace 75% of what a teacher does.
4. YouTube is way, way more engaging than reading and writing.
5. Reading and writing should be social.
6. The disruption of mobile technology will be complete.
7. Parents don’t understand teaching and learning.
8. Universities are decaying.
you can read Terry’s post for each of these interesting points here