Process Over Product

Presentation for today's session at NY/NJ Google Apps Summit.  Also provided is an overview for the session.

The use of mobile devices in classrooms increases opportunities for teachers and students to reflect upon their own learning. Through leveraging cameras embedded into iPads, iPod touches and smart phones, footage of classroom experiences can be archived for further analysis and discussion.

Come see how the Morris School District is using film and its use of Google Apps to focus a conversation on reflection and personal growth

Key Cognitive Strategies

Next installment of my not so weekly podcast series.  Thoughts on key cognitive strategies and how the K-12 system can help prepare students for college and careers.  The following excerpt from An Examination of the Four Dimensions of College and Career Readiness offers judgment on the K-12 system.


Wondering what your thoughts are?

The success of a well-prepared college student is built on a foundation of key cognitive strategies that enable students to learn, understand, retain, use and apply content from a range of disciplines.  Unfortunately, the development of key cognitive strategies in high school is often overshadowed by an instructional focus on decontextualized content and facts necessary to pass exit examinations or simply to keep students busy and classrooms quiet.

It was further noted that studies of college faculty members nationwide found a near universal agreement that most students arrive unprepared  for the intellectual demands placed upon them and require further development in critical thinking and problem solving.

   

   
   
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