Metacognition Thoughts by Susan Sturm https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy Post a sentence that describes an idea from the TEDxTalk video that resonated with you. en-us 2017-06-28 20:39:02 UTC 2018-10-08 01:34:02 UTC hello@padlet.com Bethany Hall https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/286786696 The kids could ace any test that was thrown at them that had instructions but they struggled with unstructured assignments where they didn't know what was going to be on the test.  Being good at school does not translate to being good at life.  

]]> 2018-09-28 01:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/286786696 Sam Eschner https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/287373649 Ivy league students grew up with the idea and intent of getting very good at school, but lacked the creativity needed to complete unstructured assignments. They couldn't take information and do something with it in order to solve a problem. Just because they could get good grades on tests, does not mean they could be successful in different situations due to their lack of creative thinking.]]> 2018-09-30 19:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/287373649 Michelle Nagle nagl2835 https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/287899131 We are as curriculum designers and teachers and educators, over-engineering the content curriculum. We are surgically removing the thinking so kids are simply following instructions. ]]> 2018-10-01 23:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/287899131 Kelly Grampp The speaker mentioned how through 1 billion dollar research funded by the Gates foundation found that the biggest success is to teach thinking skills. Although we are hardwired to do DSRP like his son Carter, curriculum designers and educators are focusing more on having students follow instructions. As a result, college students can't think because they didn't learn it in grades K-12. https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/287915887 2018-10-02 01:44:21 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/287915887 Lindsey Shelley https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/287926506 I found this video to be extremely interesting because I have often wondered, "is what we are teaching really preparing children to be successful in life or just in school?". The speaker Dr. Cabrera mentioned that we as teachers are "over engineering content material" so our students can pass the tests and get good grades. However, those skills will not transfer well into daily life activities that the children will need as they go off on their own. As teachers, it is also our responsibility to not only help children get good grades, but to help them learn skills that will allow them to succeed in life such as social and communication skills and skills that help students with unstructured/creative tasks. ]]> 2018-10-02 03:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/287926506 Sierra Cross https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288294770 This video was a great watch! One piece that really stuck out to me while watching it was the lego example. Today legos come as kits and there are instructions to make different things. Back in the day legos just came as legos and one had to use their own creativity to make a creation. In the world of education we are "over-engineering our content curriculum and surgically removing thinking, so that our kids are simply following instructions, painting by the numbers and getting the grade" I found that this seemed to be particularly true. There are times where our instruction is being taught for students to solely make the grade rather than making it a meaningful learning experience! ]]> 2018-10-02 17:57:03 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288294770 Catie Clear https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288398612 "Thinking is simply a process of structuring information and doing something meaningful with it." There are a variety of thinking skills and we shouldn't discriminate among any of them of course are schools don't discriminate against any of them, they are killing them all equally.]]> 2018-10-02 22:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288398612 Claire Dunwoodie https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288789305 I was struck by many things in this video! One quote specifically that I took out of this video was "They are very good at doing school". Students are so good at recalling facts and learning for the test. Students can follow instructions to get to the result that they desire in order to receive the best grade, but what students lack is the ability to think outside the box... to apply the facts to solve further problems. I really loved the LEGO example. I see this in my step brother who is 9. He is constantly building his LEGOs to match the picture on the box. Once complete he never looks back at it. He never tries to add to it or create something new with it. We are stifling children's creativity and thinking on their own. 

]]> 2018-10-03 17:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288789305 Adrianna Jimenez https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288835900 One quote that stood out to me was: "This problem starts with education but it has global implications". I never noticed how the education world doesn't prepare you for the real world in terms of teaching children to think for themselves. His example about how Lego sets now come with explicit instructions just further proves his point. We as a society and as educators do not give children the opportunities they need to solve problems on their own. ]]> 2018-10-03 18:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288835900 Jessica Abendschein aben0798 https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288944790  
“This problem of students getting to college and not being able to think is an educational problem but has global effects.” This was a very powerful sentence because almost all formats of education are designed in order to prepare you for the advancement of knowledge as you enter college. To think that students are making it this far but with no self-thinking/processing abilities or skills is a scary statement. This statement not only reflects the struggles college learners may face, but also reflects the prior years of their educational journey and the lack of exposure to real world application strategies and skills. 

]]> 2018-10-04 02:42:10 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288944790 Megan Kucharski koep0640 https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288948508 This talk was extremely interesting and told many truths about the way our education system views academic achievment.  The quote that stuck out the most to me was "If we don't teach them to think there are plenty of people that will think for them."  Students need to be set up with methods to succeed in thinking which leads to life success.  Memorizing facts will only get you so far, thinking will take you farther.  If we are not teaching our students to think, they will have a much more difficult time entering college and/or the work force. ]]> 2018-10-04 03:03:14 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/288948508 Kara Andrews bikrchik94 https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289430529 I was shocked when he said that kids don't know how to think anymore and that we aren't teaching them to think. When I thought about it, I can see how the generations are different and I also think about what I see everyday in school. If you don't push some students, scaffold, prompt, remind, etc. students will not "do". I always thought thinking was innate, when truly it is a taught skill]]> 2018-10-05 01:04:03 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289430529 Lauren Pixley https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289558560 I found this video to be very interesting and eye opening! Educators are removing the thinking of students and they are becoming good at following instruction, painting by the number and getting good grades. Dr. Cabrera says thinking is not happening at every kids desk. It is important that we change this, and provide students with more information, we can have every student thinking. 
"We don't need a miracle, we need a method."]]> 2018-10-05 12:00:29 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289558560 Hayley Guild https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289742443 I really liked the idea that students are mastering school. They are learning how to succeed at school. They are not focusing on real life, genuine learning, improving critical thinking. We as teachers need to be aware of the main goal: Improve kids overall learning, not just being good at school. ]]> 2018-10-05 17:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289742443 Kara Schanbacher https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289844392 "My kids could win at the game show jeopardy. They were full of information. They had encyclopedic recall of facts, but they weren't knowledge "able". They didn't have ab ability with knowledge that they could take information and do something with and structure it and do something with it to solve a novel problem. In a word, they couldn't think."

]]> 2018-10-06 00:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289844392 Ashley Marsh https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289845830 The opening anecdote about the speaker's students being capable of getting near perfect scores when they were given specific requirements and directions for assignments is a statement that I can directly relate to. As someone who has always considered myself a "good student," I can relate the concept of just being "good at school."  Even now, I have a hard time completing assignments that do not have specific guidelines, as I am often worried I am doing it incorrectly. As a pre-service teacher, my motto has always been to teach students "how to think, not what to think."  The speaker made a great point in saying that education is most efficient when teachers, students, and ideas come together. More specifically, we should be teaching thinking skills, not teaching thoughts. ]]> 2018-10-06 00:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289845830 Michelle Persaud https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289847807 I love how this talk is about teaching students how to think. It is a technique that at times feels impossible to teach. We focus so heavily on drill work, and preparing for tests. I hate that we are expected to teach for tests, and not to make students feel the exhilarating rush of learning something new that can intrigue them. Instead of teaching students to be good at school, I believe that we need to teach students how to be curious, inquire, and love learning.]]> 2018-10-06 01:06:07 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289847807 Lexi Conner https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289948469 The opening statements really stuck with me. I could not believe that students who were accepted into ivy league schools had difficulties doing assignments that had few directions. However, this is common in today's society or at least I feel it is. We have all become so used to having guidelines or directions that when faced with an assignment or task without them, we feel lost. I feel it is so important to get back to a place where we do not rely so heavily on instruction to feed how we do something. We should be more independent when it comes to different tasks in order to be more successful. ]]> 2018-10-06 19:49:44 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289948469 https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289970695 I liked the video and the ideas that he had. I would say that the sentence that resonated with me was the one where he talks about his son and that when he gets to school the natural instinct the think  will be taken away and that he will be trained to memorize things. This is so true. The beginning of the video talked about students becoming good at begin students and that they igured out how to give the teachers what they wanted to get good grades. I remember trying this in school I would only study the information we needed to know instead of gaining knowledge about the topic I memorized. 

]]> 2018-10-07 01:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/289970695 Roothland Medina https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/290074689 This video was very interesting to watch. I agree with the fact that all the thinking happens by those making the plans but not those who are learning how to execute them. The sentence that struck me as an educator was "We are as curriculum designers and as teachers and educators, over engineering the content curriculum...And we are surgically removing the thinking so that our kids are following the instructions, painting by the number and getting the grade..We need to get thinking back on every desk." I agree that we may be over structuring things and not allowing students to struggle in a controlled manner so they can also find a way to learn to how to learn. I don't think struggling is always bad and could be healthy as long as it is not overwhelming. ]]> 2018-10-07 19:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/290074689 Amanda Hart https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/290111837 I agree with Dr. Carcara in that thinking is an important skill that our children need to learn. As we explicitly teach both strategies and content, I think our students do lose the ability to think critically. But as we explicitly teach these thinking skills, I think it is important to really present complex ideas and novel problems so that DSRP goes beyond a strategy that is taught but becomes theirs. And in today's educational system, with so much teaching to the test, I think it would be difficult to find the time to really give the students the cognitive space they need to really use DSRP without prompting. DSRP is needed, but it's only one part of the solution for reforming our education.]]> 2018-10-08 01:29:25 UTC https://padlet.com/DrSturm/ecc30crulhzy/wish/290111837