Talk 14

 

Want to enable innovation in education without having to spend big bucks?...Then Redefine Learning

by Glen O'Grady

This talk will highlight how education reform has become an industry that leverages on the desire administrators and teachers have to improve the quality of educational outcomes. Examples of major “educational innovations/revolutions” (ICT, PBL, etc) will be presented; however this talk will point out that ultimately the real value of these innovations is not in the “packaged teaching methodology” (and the associated cost in licensing fees and training) but the underlying beliefs that they represent. Participants will see “simple ways” in which teachers and administrators can implement innovation by examining and clarifying beliefs about learning. By redefining learning from Increasing one’s knowledge; as memorizing and reproducing, and Learning as applying to Learning as an interpretive process aimed at understanding reality and “becoming” one will be able to enhance education outcomes so they are more appropriate to the complex world we live in.

Audience: Educational leaders, policy makers, principals, head teachers and staff/teacher developers.

 

 

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