Comments on: Tools For Socialized Instruction Not Individualized Instruction

By: What’s Your Short Term? #JulyChallenge2014 4/31 | Math Butler

What’s Your Short Term? #JulyChallenge2014 4/31 | Math Butler — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 19:39:56 +0000

[…] As teachers are upgrading their curriculum and technology for near future integrations I think we need to consider the value of this short term cycle. Â Instead of having an entire year planned out to the day, we can maintain long term bench marks with the intention on updating our planning through small frequent upgrades. Â I doubt that teachers trying to implement formative and interactive technologies in the classroom would have predicted the introduction of @peardeckÂ (read more here). […]

By: "Personalized Learning" Is Redundant |e-Literate

"Personalized Learning" Is Redundant |e-Literate — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:16:31 +0000

[…] with the same title by Benjamin RileyÂ (as well as being a follow-up to Meyer’s post “Tools for Socialized Instruction not Individualized Instruction“).Â Part of the confound here is sloppy terminology. Specifically, I think the term […]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sun, 22 Jun 2014 03:17:16 +0000

I got into the beta!

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 23:22:58 +0000

They click and drag the line from their computers.

By: Marcia

Marcia — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:53:23 +0000

How are the students responding?

By: Brendan Murphy

Brendan Murphy — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:56:42 +0000

Math discussions is one of the big takes aways I got from this course last year how to learn math that I constantly try to push out to my teachers.

By: Riley

Riley — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:45:41 +0000

Another idea that @michaleylynch helps me think about is avoiding “student centered” and preferring Parker Palmer’s “content centered.” We have this big push for individualization and sometimes that means focusing on students at this hyper-omg-what-does-omar-need-right-now-at-this-very-second level.

But the real spirit of learning is about the content or the subject. If we can put the content at the center of a “community of truth…” I think everything feels more interesting and engaging.

I worry about kids on whom we’ve been focusing so relentlessly and specifically to make sure that everything is centered on them.

By: Dan Meyer

Dan Meyer — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:25:04 +0000

PearDeck doesn’t require Twitter.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 12:27:03 +0000

This does not offer a fair playing field to all students. The assumption that students have access through twitter feeds is HUGE. Where I live, a cell signal is not always available and many students do not have the tools necessary to access it. It does sound interesting, though.

By: Shari

Shari — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 22:02:26 +0000

Ah! I had no clue your comment was specific to software. I have individualized instruction without being tied to software. Your comment now makes sense in comparison to “most software”.