Bill edited Creating Purpose-Driven Learning Experiences

Creating Purpose-Driven Learning Experiences
Direct link to this resource page: http://bit.ly/CPDLEAlberta2016
Backchannel for today's session:https://todaysmeet.com/CPDLEAlberta2016
In his 2012 Kindle SingleWhy School, technology expert and educational change agentWill Richardsonargues that classrooms as they are currently structured are failing our students. "We focus on the easiest parts of the learning interaction -- information acquisition, basic skills, a bit of critical thinking, analysis -- accomplishments that can be easily identified and scored," he writes. "Learning is relegated to the quantifiable" (Kindle location 227). To create highly engaged learning spaces, Will believes, classrooms must instead be reimagined as places where students do work that matters with others -- a process introduced by sixth grade classroom teacher Bill Ferriter in a series of presentations to Alberta's Regional Learning Consortiums in January of 2016.
The resources for Bill's presentations can be found on this page.
Module 1: Are Today's Students the Dumbest Generation?
In February of 2010, Dan Brown dropped out of college, arguing that schooling was getting in the way of his education and that if educators aren't ready to change, society will move on without them. Watch Dan'sOpen Letter to Educatorsanduse this handout to reflecton his core argument that schools are failing to prepare kids for the world that they will inherit.

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