Lee Crocket - 21 Century Fluencies

Another school holiday course but one I'm really excited to be attending.  Learning Network NZ has organised a two day programme with Lee Crocket from the 21C Fluencies Institute.

Keynote - Lee Crocket
Different ways of doing things











TTWWADI - that's the way we've always done it.
Why do we accept things without questioning?

• holidays
• bell times
• classrooms
• hands up
• writing in books
• ...

Why do we need to examine our TTWWADIs?  For the kids!!!

Myths in education

• IQ is fixed - creatical thinking - creative and critical thinking
• Solution Fluency
• relevant, engaging learning opportunities
• Homework improves performance
• very little connection - John Hattie
• no correlation between homework and achievement
• Mendina - Brain Rules
• quality over quantity
• In partnership with the kids
• Text is better for communicating than images
• eyes process images at 60 000 x that of text
• 80% of info comes to us through our eyes
• we need to find ways to present with visuals 
• Learning is more effective when students sit quietly and listen
• digital learning mashup 
• Receiving Information - Passive Learning
• audio
• visual
• audio visual
• Participation - Active learning
• verbal 
• multisensory 
• Impact on learning higher when cooperative learning than competitive learning
• Small class sizes are essential for effective learning
• no effect, size doesn't matter
• impacts on management
• progressive withdrawal - from teacher control to student control of their learning
• we need to teach them how to learn - not how to be taught
• University education is essential for a successful future
• kids need to prepare for 10 ~ 17 careers in their life
• students are abandoning university
• information has a short shelf life
• information quickly becomes obsolete
• white collar jobs are just factory jobs in nicer clothes