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What Happens When Students Use Technology Better Than Teachers?

Truth be told, students are geniuses with technology. Born hackers. And of course they are better than teachers. They’re digital natives.

Assess the extent to which students, unprompted, use the strategies when reading new text before ‘releasing responsibility.’

The real problem with multiple-choice questions isn’t assessment design as much as it is function and tone–and these things matter.

By ignoring the phases of inquiry learning, premature Googlers often find the information they want rather than the information they need.

In ed reform, we train our sights on the wrong targets, hoping to improve curriculum, assessment & schools via plans, policy & standards.

While we think in a linear way, learning is non-linear. Curriculum must center real-life problems & issues, vs. a linear set of competencies.

he way forward, then, might just be a more nuanced discussion about how people learn, and what role technology can play in that process.

If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.