Powerful Learning Practice‘s co-founder, Will Richardson, gave a five-minute presentation on 19 Bold Ideas for Change at the ISTE 2012 conference.
iste-presentation from Will Richardson on Vimeo.
Key points of presentation:
- Give open network tests
- Roll your own text
- Be Googled well
- Flip the power switch
- Change the world
- Don’t “Do your own work”
- Learn first. Teach second.
- No more workshops
- Share everything
- Ask questions you don’t know the answers to
- Repeat after me… “I want to be found by strangers on the Internet”
- Unlearn. Relearn.
- Résumé. Shmesume.
- Stop Googling. Get a network.
- Go free and open source
- Create an “UnCommon Core”
- Don’t deliver…discover
- Disrupt the system
- SCREAM!
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. When I first started teaching I believed all these things. After returning from an extended absence, I wasn’t sure if there was anyone out there willing to stand up to the forces that have reduced education to bubbles on a test sheet. Tech has opened up the conversation but teachers need to light the way. Thx for summing it up.
Susan’s right, the forces that oppose to positive change in education are huge, mainly because of the employees that have worked in the system for 20-30+ years and prefer doing things the old way. Not to mention they oftenly have a saying in who will be employed and who won’t, and they do not hire young, aspiring and promising teachers just because they suggest new ways to do their job.
Lima is right.The educational system is full of young,aspiring teachers that want to change things a bit and make the students learn in an interactive way.But the old teachers aren’t willing to keep up with tehnology so they do what they had been doing in the past years and they impose their ideas to the young teachers,fearing that the young ones will replace them.