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TeacherHaines Blog: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. The next interview in the student series is with a naturally gifted young speaker from Oman named Yaqsan. I met Yaqsan, his classmates and their teacher, Salim Al Busaidi, in Qatar in 2009. I wrote about. Him and his presentation. 1 How would you describe your social media use on a normal day? 2 Are you a gamer? Yaqsan: Well I do play playstation 3 but only to some extent. I prefer playing multiplayer shoot em up like Battlefield Bad Company 2. Yaqsan: This from a personal exper...
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TeacherHaines Blog: Repetition is the mother of learning.
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Monday, September 20, 2010. Repetition is the mother of learning. Think about the things you remember from school. We remember our friends, our teachers, how the hallway looked, where we played at recess and dozens of other non-academic experiences. Most of us do not actually remember the moment we learned anything in school. If you think back you can probably identify the moment you learned some. Specific skill or some. While there are a number of ways people the learn things, the basic process boils do...
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TeacherHaines Blog: Games and Television as Professional Development
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Monday, March 21, 2011. Games and Television as Professional Development. Earlier today I watched a student-created video. Tweeted and I think it is very instructive. The explicit message is about advertising and mobile technology but there are other lessons to be learned from the video. One hidden message for teachers who watch that video is this: teachers need to learn more from marketers and game designers. Here is my back of the napkin answer to this question. The lesson for educators: Don't expect p...
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TeacherHaines Blog: August 2010
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Monday, August 2, 2010. Social Learning and the Bazaar. This is quite different from the traditional classroom model. The role of the teacher needs to be re-evaluated in this context. Hopefully the teacher is still the person who contributes the most knowledge and skill to the group and hopefully they have a larger impact than the students we trust them to teach, but how they view their role needs to shift. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Decade 2: The Movie. This is my movie about the 2nd decade of the 21st...
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TeacherHaines Blog: Balance (part one)
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Friday, September 30, 2011. One perennial debate in education circles is the debate about how freedom helps or hurts a student's ability to learn. Some people, usually considered "traditional" or "old school" believe that adults deserve respect and students should sit still, focus and absorb the wisdom of the teachers and coaches who instruct them. Other people, usually considered "progressive" believe children are inherently wiser than adults at deciding what and how they should learn. When the percepti...
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TeacherHaines Blog: Balance (part two)
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011. I always cringe when I hear people make statements without qualifiers at the end. Sometimes it is just poor phrasing, but often it is intentional and it strikes me as shallow thinking. For example, people might say things like "Give kids the freedom to make mistakes," when they really mean, "Look for situations where the consequences of mistakes are not serious and give them freedom within that context.". As a safe, private practice space for lessons about social media and I ...
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TeacherHaines Blog: Interview with Thomas Wendt
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Monday, March 5, 2012. Interview with Thomas Wendt. If students don't remember what they've learned can we really say they learned it? From my perspective, too much of what we teach in school is ephemeral. Students may understand a concept, be able to apply it and even teach it to someone else, but if they don't retain the knowledge or the skills they've learned a year later do we call that "learning" or should we instead call it "exposure" or some less permanent-sounding word? Help us learn how to creat...
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TeacherHaines Blog: February 2011
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011. The myth of exponential knowledge. Last year Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a big splash by telling us that more information is created every two days than was created from the dawn of time until 2003. This is an alarming find, even if the numbers are fudged. It doesn't take an expert critical thinker to see the huge hole in this line of reasoning. The reason this is a somewhat meaningless factoid is that there has always. This should be obvious prima facie. My theory is that ...
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TeacherHaines Blog: November 2011
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011. I always cringe when I hear people make statements without qualifiers at the end. Sometimes it is just poor phrasing, but often it is intentional and it strikes me as shallow thinking. For example, people might say things like "Give kids the freedom to make mistakes," when they really mean, "Look for situations where the consequences of mistakes are not serious and give them freedom within that context.". As a safe, private practice space for lessons about social media and I ...
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