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As educators we have not had a great deal of practice learning the way the‍‍‍ experts advocate that our students ‍‍‍should be learning the new 21 century classroom.

This exercise, in fact, this whole course is based on real learning experiences you can take back to your classroom. As you complete this assignment, think outside the box. Consider creative ideas of how you might engage your students by allowing them to comment on curricular material.

In this respect, you do not have to agree with any of the quotes below nor do your comments have to be based on what you think the facilitator of this course wants to hear.

You must; however, always write in a polite, careful manner taking care not to offend any participants. Remember when you write on the web you are on a potential worldwide stage and need to act accordingly.

(Location numbers represent the location of passages highlighted in __ the Kindle __ version of this book.) > > > > > > > > ‍‍‍ I think this quote is so important. All children do not learn the same way. We have to find what way works best for them and differentiate the instruction. The realistic problem with this is that it takes a lot of time, but if we want students to be motivated and succeed we need to customize their education.
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 * 1) // Facilitate a vibrant, participative democracy (Location // 212 )
 * 1) // There must be a better explanation than more computers and technology--- // ( Location 238)
 * 1) // Could it be that the US model is simply broken? ( // Location 253 )
 * 1) // And across school districts, spending per student does not necessarily track performance. ( // Location 226)
 * 1) // ‍‍Yes, the teacher lectures, but students frequently raise their hands to participate in discussions. Other times students do work while the teacher walks around and offers a helping hand, And at still other times, students work on fun projects in groups. ‍‍ //
 * 1) // The way we measure school’s performance is fundamentally flawed, ( // Location 256)
 * 1) // The primary job or fundamental driver among every student is to feel successful, and all students are motivated to do that. ( // Location 343)
 * 1) // ‍‍‍Schooling can and should be an intrinsically motivating experience. ( // Location 350)
 * 1) // ‍‍A key step toward making school intrinsically motivating is to customize education to match the way each child best learns. ( // Location 362) ‍‍

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 * 1) // ‍‍Standardization clashes with the need for customization. ( // Location 364) ‍‍
 * 1) // Disruption is a positive force. It is a process by which an innovation transforms a market whose services or products are complicated and expensive into one where simplicity, convenience, accessibility, and affordability characterize the industry. ( // Location 371)
 * 1) // ‍We can make schooling intrinsically motivational help our children maximize their individual potential to realize their most daring dreams. ( // Location 416)
 * 1) // Gardner defines intelligence: (Gardner is a Harvard Psychologist Howard Gardner, the pioneer in multiple intelligences. ( // Location 592)//If we agree that we learn differently and that students need customized pathways and paces to learn, why do schools standardize the way they teach and the way they test? (//Location 656)
 * 1) // The current educational system-the way it trains teachers, the way it groups students, the way the curriculum is designed, and the way the school buildings are laid out-is designer for standardization. ( // Location 791)
 * 2) A major lesson from our studies of innovation is that disruptive innovation does not take root through a direct attack on the existing school system. Instead it must go around and underneath the system. (//(//Location 4058)
 * 1) // The proper use of technology as a platform for learning offers a chance to modularize the system and thereby customize learning. ( // Location )
 * 1) Smart people will do smart things if we enable them to do so //(//Location 4067)
 * 1) // ‍Enable children to create tutorial tools for each other, help parents to create tools or their children and others children, make it easy for teachers to create tools for their students and for other teachers will have extraordinary impact. This is because we learn most deeply when we teach others. ( // Location 4113) ‍

Go to the discussion board on this page and notice how each comment became a discussion question. Reply to any of the discussions. Choose two. Be sure each participant has at least one reply. Think.... How could you use this option of making comments in a wiki page with your own class? Address this idea in your reflection Journal.
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