Remake of Visible Learning - Chapter 5 by Jackie Ramey https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s Please read Exercise 3 on page 99 in Visible Learning and respond. Then respond to one student. Consider the following two extracts from Charles Dickens' Hard Times. How has teaching and teacher education changed since the 1800s? Extract #1 [Mr. Gradgrind:] 'Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to the Facts, sir!' Extract #2 So, Mr. M'Choakumchild began in his best manner. He and some one hundred and forty other school masters had been lately turned at the same time, in the same factory, on the same principles, like so many pianoforte legs. He had been put through an immense variety of paces, and had answered volumes of head-breaking questions. Orthography, etymology, syntax, and prosody, biography, astronomy, geography, and general cosmography, the sciences of compound proportion, algebra, land-surveying and leveling, vocal music, and drawing from models, were all at the ends of his ten chilled fingers. He had worked his stony way into Her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council's Schedule B, and taken the bloom off the higher branches of mathematics and physical science, French, German, Latin, and Greek. He knew all about all the Water Sheds of all the worlds (whatever they are), and all the histories of all the peoples, and all the names of all the rivers and mountains, and all the productions, manners, and customs off all the countries, and all their boundaries and bearings on the two and thirty points of the compass. Ah, rather overdone, M'Choakumchild. If he had only learnt a little less, how infinitely better he might have taught much more! en-us 2018-10-16 00:30:54 UTC 2023-02-18 08:33:07 UTC hello@padlet.com I agree, I think that education is based more around conceptual knowledge of something. My mind immediately goes to building number sense versus teaching formulas. They have to have conceptual knowledge of how something works and how to apply it in different scenarios before learning or memorizing a formula. This is very frustrating for a lot of my students parents when trying to work with their child because it is so vastly different than how they learned. -Ellen jdramey https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110768 2018-10-16 00:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110768 The teacher pushing "nothing but facts" is unrecognizable in today's educational environment. Facts are at our fingertips with technology's aid, what students today are tasked with is delving deeper into the why of a subject. jdramey https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110769

]]> 2018-10-16 00:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110769 The teacher pushing "nothing but facts" is unrecognizable in today's educational environment. Facts are at our fingertips with technology's aid, what students today are tasked with is delving deeper into the why of a subject. -Diane Peterson jdramey https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110770 2018-10-16 00:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110770 I think today's education isn't about "these are the facts because I told you so." Today is proving facts and truth, and understanding why, rather than accepting them at face value. Also education about communication and collaboration in a global society. ~Tina Rowden jdramey https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110771 2018-10-16 00:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110771 Benjamin Franklin rephrased"Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn." jdramey https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110773 2018-10-16 00:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110773 Today's educational system is focused on the creation of problem solvers and critical thinkers. Ultimately we are charged with teaching students how to think. In the past educational institutions were places were children were suppose to learn and act in a cookie cutter fashion so they could be good workers in the factories. Society has changed and thus educational systems have ultimately changed to reflect this.-Michelle Brown jdramey https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110774 2018-10-16 00:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110774 jdramey https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110775 Today we don't teach "nothing but facts", we teach understanding. It is important for student to not necessarily know the facts or answer but how to find the facts or answer. Like many have said before me, facts are now at students' fingertips thanks to technology, but if we don't teach students how to seek that information and filter through false or unnecessary information, they will struggle to be successful. - Rachael Arthur]]> 2018-10-16 00:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jdramey/hwnewr2u5a2s/wish/293110775