JewishGPS JCG Presentation, March 14 2011

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March 14, 2011

Authority: Who has it?

• Think back to when you were 10 and had a question:– How did you go about getting the

answer?

– Where did the authority for the correct answer come from?


Authority: Who has it?

• Think about a 10 year-old today. If s/he has a question:– How does s/he go about getting the

answer?

– Where does the authority for the correct answer come from?


Professor Christopher Dede

• What does he have to say?– 16:08-18:49

Chris Dede is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. His fields of scholarship include emerging technologies, policy, and leadership. He co-edited a book in 2005 called Scaling Up Success: Lessons Learned from Technology-based Educational Improvement.


http://videorep.kennisnet.nl/asset/O3ZzxEu3Z8g5ez19EOkYqk8s

Authority: Who Has It?

• Everyone.


Co-Constructing Knowledgea shifted role for educators

New teachers need to come to know themselves as co-constructors of knowledge rather than givers of knowledge. They facilitate learning not dictate it. Students need the opportunity to explore, question and re-create our culture. Only through this type of dialogue will our students be primed for selective appropriation "that will provide them with the basis for defining and transforming, rather than merely serving, the wider social order" (McLaren, 2002, p. 89).

(written by Michelle Kratofil, EdD student at NEU)

JewishGPS, LLC • www.jewishgps.com Darder, A., Baltodano, M., Torres, R. (2002) The Critical Pedagogy Reader; McLaren, P. Critical pedagogy: A Look at the Major Concepts. RoutledgeFarmer: New York & London.

Implications?• the need to educate for critical thinking

skills moreso than in the past.

• the need to teach a spectrum of idea/thought (i.e. Jewish observance)

• learners are making more “self-educated” choices

• power of the people (i.e. crowd-sourcing, Amazon)

• consumers are making more sophisticated choices


Part II

A Jewish educator with 15 years professional experience in

informal/experiential/immersion/experience-based education

vs.

No Child Left Behind & Standardized Testing


Learning in a non-Jewish environment

• This doesn’t apply to me.

• How does this apply to me?

• What else am I missing by being insular?


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