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I think dealing with distraction has been with humans for many centuries. It isn't something we have to bash up our youth with. They are not a diminished generation. I like Elvis even though he destroyed my parent's minds How do we measure diminished concentration? Many people have an unintentional injury in the pre-Google world. In America (land of Google) from 2000 to 2009 unintentional death rates declined by 29%. There is enough research that demonstrates a rise in IQ occurred alongside the rise of the internet. (Google Scholar search: Internet and IQ increase).  I believe that Learning is actually a distraction (disruptive and distractive).  I have a keen interest in how mindsets which focus on narrow points disconnects us with what is actually happening in what is a rich multi-faceted complex reality. Knowing actually positions the person. It can lessen adaptability and change. An open learning mindset distracts us from fixed knowing. Education is in the learning bus...

My favorite Distance Learning quotes From https://twitter.com/jjfbbennett Shifting content-based teacher transmitted delivery to student inclusive learning requires a whole-of-school approach. Distance Education provides learning to students separated by distance, this should not lower teaching-learning quality. Technology is not enough. Transformative structures can be easily disregarded by implicit morphic practices Morphic behavior operating in a new structure will not improve learning effectiveness or achievement. It may do at best: maintain output. Distance Education technologies plasticizes the actual place of instruction, within which the teacher fabricates the describable activities. Distance Education teacher is about transformative mastery of ICT contextually applied to the pedagogy used in quality classroom teaching. Gatekeeper teachers can easily conjure up arguments to maintain the status quo to resist disruptive technologies. 5 levels 4, 21c teacher: global, school-org...

This is a quote from Pew Research "Our educational system is not adequately preparing us for work of the future, and our political and economic institutions are poorly equipped to handle these hard choices". As an educator, I am concerned with whether our students gain the skills required for a quickly changing workforce.   However, when my youngest son, who is in year 10 ChromeCasted this video " Humans need not Apply " onto the family TV, the Pew Research statement carried some extra impact. Will the education my son gains completing Yr 12 and university prepare him for this?  He will graduate in 7 years' time.

Hattie on school improvement: In the Visible Learning for Teachers… book Hattie refers to whole-school improvement as the platform for student achievement. know thy  impact Teachers as Change Agents have more impact than Teachers as Facilitators effective drivers: whole school attitude, philosophy, and theory of action. wrong driver: fragmented strategies Improvements are related to building a collective capacity of teachers in a school to show success - not only in achievement, but also in making learning a valued outcome, by retaining students’ interest in learning, in making students respect themselves and others, by recognizing and esteeming diversity, and by building community. Students are never ‘owned’ by a teacher, but by the school. the starting place is governance and policy. Visible Learning for Teachers Maximising Impact On Learning John Hattie 2012 ISBN: 978-0-203-18152-1-2 Student expectations and student achievement: Student Expectati...

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Question If we use detectors to observe, we know we are observing and we see different things.  If we know our behaviors are being detected, we start to observe ourselves and we start behaving differently. In education - can observation detection made through learning analytics and simulation technologies change the teacher's perception of students and student modify their learning behavior? One-off sponsorship You Tube

Disillusioned Space Is it possible that when we become more and more focussed on our own endeavors (wheel barrow) we become more and more disconnected with what is actually happening outside of our fabricated personal paradigm - to the extent that we end up in a disillusioned place where we think we know but wouldn't actually have a clue who we are working with?   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWSxSQsspiQ