The paradigm of our world and the jobs for tomorrow are radically different than they were 100 years ago. However, when you look into the walls of our classrooms, not much has changed. After teaching for 13 years you KNOW the moments when really thinking and learning is happening. I can tell you that it is not when students are seated in rows and perfectly ordered. Real learning can be messy!
Sugata Mitri, TED talk winner, makes the claim that, “Learning as an emergent phenomenon in a self organizing educational system.” Basically, that learning happens when we are at the edge of chaos. But are we as teachers willing to take that risk? Can we allow students to self organize? What does that even look like?
He says that learning is about intellectual adventures with mediators (that’s us!) asking questions. It all comes down to asking and framing just the RIGHT QUESTION. This is a recurring theme in EVERY professional development I have attended in the last 5 years!
So here is his question for you to consider…How would allowing the internet into the testing environment change they way you teach?
If you want more information about his work visit School in the Cloud or Self Organized Learning (SOLE)