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Letting Go

I found this week’s read to be extremely intriguing and mind boggling. The article this week had ample relevance in education today. “Great Teaching Means Letting Go” written by Grant Wiggins in my opinion challenges many school districts/state curriculums. According to Wiggins, everywhere he goes he sees more scaffolding and prompted teaching. Are the students learning to be independent learners? Are they utilizing analytical and strategic thinking skills on a daily basis or are we spoon feeding them to memorize facts in order to gain success? It is ironic I read this article today because a colleague of mine just gave me an idea to have a “board game” day with my students weekly. We expressed how the students are using their strategic thinking skills enough and we are afraid that will impact them for life long learning. I know scaffolding in most education facilities is preferred, we have all heard of the “I do, We do, You do”. I have also watched colleagues and have had former ins...

Blog Post 5

Hi, As we are almost halfway through this semester I do feel the need to modify my goals (as usual). I will like to advance my research skills (based on the Galileo) assignment. As stated in my discussion and previous blog, the type of researcher I am is a horizontal which I don't feel is the most affective. My goal is to teach the "google generation" (including myself) how to research effectively and to utilize scholar articles and resources for not just research but to learn. I must admit that I realized with reading articles since I started my course I find myself "skimming" and "ready to get to the point" but I noticed I wasn't learning, I in fact was making myself a robot and obtaining information. I also will like to make inquiry based learning a priority in my classroom next school year using the information obtained. If I could be completely honest, growing up I was labeled as a "gifted" and "magnet" student. I always...

Blog Post 2

The video "Infowhelm"and the article "My Daily Info-Wrangling" routine had a couple of main point similarities that grasped the eye. Both resources expressed relevance to information fluency and expressed the how us (humans) are bombarded with information- from our emails, texts, social media, television, etc. . The expectation of us to "learn" has evolved to simply memorization due to the fact that we are receiving so much information has created a different era of learning, which connects us to the next resource-" Creating Classrooms: 8 Ways into Inquiry Learning". These resources presented exposed the correlation between information fluency and inquiry learning. In my opinion, in order to have be predominately fluent in information we must teach students using inquiry based learning strategies. Understanding the concept of inquiry learning was one of my learning goals of this course and the article "Creating Classrooms: 8 Ways into Inquir...

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