Chapter 4
Quotation: “Teachers no longer need to scramble to provide the latest up-to-date information to students because the students themselves are taking an active role in helping to create and mold it, particularly in areas of social information.” In fact, this chapter advocates for peer-to-peer learning in which “all participants stand on equal ground.” The teacher can and should be learning from students in a collective way, with everyone contributing knowledge in some way. Having a teacher stand in the front of the classroom and lecture is an old way of learning that doesn’t match up with the pace of the world. Instead, everyone in a collective learning community contributes in order to belong; students are not passive recipients.
Question: Every student has skills and talents, even students who are differently abled. I wonder what differentiation would look like for students to participate meaningfully in the collective. Also, what might a “collective” classroom look like? I would enjoy seeing more examples of it in a standard public high school classroom.
Quotation: “Teachers no longer need to scramble to provide the latest up-to-date information to students because the students themselves are taking an active role in helping to create and mold it, particularly in areas of social information.” In fact, this chapter advocates for peer-to-peer learning in which “all participants stand on equal ground.” The teacher can and should be learning from students in a collective way, with everyone contributing knowledge in some way. Having a teacher stand in the front of the classroom and lecture is an old way of learning that doesn’t match up with the pace of the world. Instead, everyone in a collective learning community contributes in order to belong; students are not passive recipients.
Question: Every student has skills and talents, even students who are differently abled. I wonder what differentiation would look like for students to participate meaningfully in the collective. Also, what might a “collective” classroom look like? I would enjoy seeing more examples of it in a standard public high school classroom.