Global Work Ethics- Alan November

Global Work Ethic- You can design your own assignments, nobody tells you what you do. You are in charge of your own learning.

Questions :

• Who should we look to as key agents of change?
• The biggest barrier of students using technology?
• Have you visited a school outside of the US?
• Do you believe your students will be competing with others utside of the US?
• Do your students have a global work ethic?
• Do you think the close book exam will be replaced by the open source knowledge exam?

There will be a google doc available to access the data of these questions.
How do you shift the control of their learning to the students?

The most successful schools are the ones where students own their own learning. It is a function of vision, culture not technology. Has to change:

How we assess teachers and students.

Teachers are assessed how to manage learning. It would be wiser to leave the room to see if the kids can solve the problem without the teacher there. How much have students learned to solve problems on their own.

Design your own search engine. Should be taught like reading and writing.

Invite people to build collaboratively search engines. Only the web addresses we put in are searchable. All of your links are fully searchable.

Go to Google> Custom Search Engine. You can invite up tot 99 collaborators to add to your search engine.

Help your students stay focus on the search. Keep younger students safe within the

Site: (country extension) ex. Search in google for site:tr will only return results from websites from Turkey

We need specialized search engines to allow and teach students how to get information with global awareness. Make sure you teach your students to use search engines properly. If you want to have insight from a different country’s perspective. Use a current event. If you allow your students to only do research from one country’s perspective, you will not get the “full” picture. Ex. Whatdo the British say about the “Available Revolution”. They will have and teach a different perspective on the same events.

What if you challenge your students to prepare for a live debate with a real British expert on history?

What kind of motivation would you have from your students if you were to tell them that the debate would be broadcasted, uploaded to iTunes, published on a blog compared to the motivation you would get to study for a pencil and paper exam?

Alan suggest to assign one student to be the “researcher” of the day. Any kind of factual question the students might have is directed to the students researcher. We need to teach research skills and the skills to be life long learners.

Have kids produce their own tutorials (screencasts) with programs like Jing, Camtasia. have them own their own learning. What if every day one child in class is the researcher and one is producing the tutorial of the problem of today. What if you were to create a DVD with all these mini lessons/tutorial? All the kids know that they making a contribution to all other kids in class.

“Low hanging fruit”

1. Tutorial Design Team
2. Building a Search Engine
3. Research Team
4. Collaborative Documents/Presentations/Spreadsheet,

Teach kids collaboration tools. You don’t sit there to take your own notes. Kids are social, they LOVE and want collaboration. Using the revision to see the process of creation.

Work around the world collaboratively, contribute to others, earn their own learning.

We can shift control of learning to the students in order to compete in the global economy. Self directed. Kids contribute to the development of the whole. Human need of feeling of contribute to the good of the whole. Central contributors.

Podcast their learning of the past week. Students can contribute more than what we are asking.

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