{"id":954,"date":"2011-08-17T05:53:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T10:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2011-11-11T03:13:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T08:13:22","slug":"where-is-the-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Learning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Tedxx Philadelphi talk should be required viewing in every teaching 101 course. All our classrooms would be such better places.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I saw this go by my twitter feed and others like. At face value* it assumes that if you watch, view or are aware of something it causes a change in behavior.\u00a0 If that were true our students would know so much more.\u00a0 We know from experience that is not true, a learner must interact with the information: think, talk, do something with the content for them to develop understanding and meaning. Yet we constantly expose students, sort of drive by teaching, to information and are surprised when they do not remember or use the information later on.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago I had a conversation with a teacher friend of mine from another district and she asked if I could help her set up a wiki for links to videos.\u00a0 Her expectation was that students would watch videos for the topics she could not fit into her instruction.\u00a0 The students could watch and she would have covered the material. Where is the learning???<\/p>\n<p>I often think we need to take a deep breath and rethink the fundamentals. It is easy to concentrate on covering the syllabus\/ standards and loose sight of teaching our students.<\/p>\n<p>*I do not believe the author of the tweet assumes this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Tedxx Philadelphi talk should be required viewing in every teaching 101 course. All our classrooms would be such better places.&#8221; I saw this go by my twitter feed and others like. At face value* it assumes that if you watch, view or are aware of something it causes a change in behavior.\u00a0 If that were true our students would know so much more.\u00a0 We know from experience that is not true, a learner must interact with the information: think, talk,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/?p=954\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[223],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bethknittle.net\/WP_Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}