Love the ruler concept! Teaching is certainty an art! Tech is a instrument played to move minds.

All the best,

Ron Teitelbaum

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018, 4:00 AM Hilaire hilaire@drgeo.eu wrote:

Hi Ron,

Thanks for your insight. Commenting bellow.

Le 18/08/2018 à 17:20, Ron Teitelbaum a écrit :

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Hi Hilare,

Thanks for your recent posts. Please do keep them coming. For me there is a difference between documents that help you understand a concept and documents that allow you to expand your knowledge past your original question. Explain vs enlighten. Highlighting useful information on authentic documents for directed learning would help guide the learner without removing the potential benefit of a deeper dive.

Regarding complexity of authentic document, you make me think of a Dynabook scaffolding tools to both reduce the complexity and to increasingly augment/reduce it to its original state.

For an audio document, once teacher scaffolds part of it, learner could play with a ruler to put back its original complexity.

For a technical document, you can imagine the same. Same with a geographic map, etc.

The more I teach the more I see teaching as an art. There are not one RIGHT way of teaching, but more different approach, methodology you will use depending on your student or personal inclination. A successful Dynabook could be to follow these diverse teaching approaches.

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Overall in today's world a motivated student with a real interest in a topic will find real world documents. (Try to stop them) Will this help the opposite situation? I don't know but I remember a teacher that gave struggling students the questions and the answers to a test that was coming up just to see if that world help and it didn't! Access to authentic documents will help motivated students but so will teaching them to search and to distinguish good results from bad.

I've been working with problem based learning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem-based_learning. Watching students placed in a real world situation working in groups that are needed if you were actually responsible for solving the problem is really powerful.

Understanding the process you will encounter in the real world definitely has benefits. You learn what skills are valuable to help you solve problems but you also learn what skills you have that are valuable to others.

Also giving people the opportunity to share with others what they learn and how it would apply to their personal situation gives everyone involved an excellent view into the real world. I find that experience extremely powerful and I frequently recommend adding time for it in classes to my clients.

-- Dr. Geo http://drgeo.eu

Hi Yoshiki,

Thanks for the insight, definitely worth looking at it.

Hilaire

Le 20/08/2018 à 19:36, Yoshiki Ohshima a écrit :

I want to plug a stuff here. There is a book titled "Inventive Minds" coming on the way. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/inventive-minds