How has the role of the teacher changed when a student can Google anything? That’s what three colleagues (@eileen_lennon, @JPatanio, @DarlynnAlfalla) and I discussed with participants at this year’s #Educon. We discussed with participants what we could expect to see more or less of in the age of Google as well as the new vs traditional roles.
Here is what we came up with at the session:
What we'll see in the age of Google, more or less...
More
Less
- Critical Eval of Websites
- Analyze for credibility
- Creating content
- Customizable and proactive searches
- More developed questions and questions skills
- Primary Sources
- Sharing of ideas and collaboration
- True intellectual honest conversations
- Opinions supported by facts
- Transparency
- Nice political conversations!
- Exposure to other opinions
- Broader Community
- Empathy
- www.Thrively.com
- Looking at the top hit in Google
- Looking up facts
- Education will be less of imparting knowledge
- Siri
- Slaves to the algorithm that is already dictated.
- Textbooks
- Working in isolation
- Less grey areas of understandable facts
- Teacher opinion
- One viewpoint and perspective
- Hateful speech (hopefully)
- Biased views
- Defensive arguments
- Trolls
- One size fits all
New roles vs old roles in the age of Google...
New Roles
Traditional Roles
- Support students publishing
- Inspiration provider
- Facilitator
- Fact Synthesizer
- Digital Classroom
- Coach
- Macro Manager
- Ring Master
- Self-regulation modeling
- Learning experience designer, Mentor/Advisor
- Audience for student work
- Information disseminator
- Dictator
- Fact Recycler/Summarizer
- Paper/Pencil Classroom
- Manager
- Micromanager
- Lion Tamer
- Policeman
- Facilitator
One participant, Dan Gallagher, shared this vision for how he viewed today's classroom. You can click on various areas in the classroom to learn more.
Lisa Nielsen writes for and speaks to audiences across the globe about learning innovatively and is frequently covered by local and national media for her views on “Passion (not data) Driven Learning,” "Thinking Outside the Ban" to harness the power of technology for learning, and using the power of social media to provide a voice to educators and students. Ms. Nielsen has worked for more than a decade in various capacities to support learning in real and innovative ways that will prepare students for success. In addition to her award-winning blog, The Innovative Educator, Ms. Nielsen’s writing is featured in places such as Huffington Post, Tech & Learning, ISTE Connects, ASCD Wholechild, MindShift, Leading & Learning, The Unplugged Mom, and is the author the book Teaching Generation Text.
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