In Finland national agencies act as Learning Partners to local systems, enabling local actors to find their own answers. The gov strategy is thus to promote and enable local learning.
In my opinion Localism and designing for local emergence is a very powerful way to fight what Charlie Munger calls “Man with hammer syndrome(he sees only the nails)”,and(or) one size fits all perspectives. It is also an inbuilt mechanism to fight certainty merchants, particularly those with ideas which reduce evolvability of thinking and future optionalities.
Most education research communities are self-aggrandizing clusters of eco-chambers. Nobody care for what other groups are doing. I think localism and allowing local agents to come up with their own solution will enable emergence of more ideas and diversity in long run.
Finland education localism at best: (No one size fits all) National agencies act as Learning Partners to local systems – enabling local actors to find their own answers; government strategy is to promote and enable local learning. https://t.co/8w5mPE2kTC
This is a very interesting discussion on education and its fundamental purpose. It is focusing on two important paradigms of education; The Human Capital Theory and The Signaling Theory.
Human capital theory claims that education will stimulate social mobility and raises wages by increasing productivity
The signalling perspective on education suggests that education causes social mobility because it signifies the competence to the employers or other decision makers. It suggests that the asymmetric information in job market causes the decision maker to look for most trustworthy attributes of the job seeker. That is why getting into a top college sends an stronger positive signal.
In a popularTed talk by Rory Sutherland “Life lessons from an ad man” he gives a funny explanation about the effect of signaling power of credentials on a persons confidence level which in-turn makes him more successful in life.
” I don’t know if anybody knows it. Someone was actually suggesting that you can take this concept further, and actually produce placebo education. The point is that education doesn’t actually work by teaching you things. It actually works by giving you the impression that you’ve had a very good education, which gives you an insane sense of unwarranted self-confidence, which then makes you very, very successful in later life. So, welcome to Oxford, ladies and gentlemen. “
India decided to rationalize the school curriculum by reducing it by 10 to 15 percent this year to meet the target of 50 percent by 2021.
The decision was made to ensure a holistic education in which there will be time for physical education, value education, life skills education and experiential learning.
Linda Darling-Hammond on Becoming Internationally Competitive
Linda talks about effects of superficial learning due to massive size of syllabus. This results in impaired deep learning and shallow understanding.
Big Fish Little Pond Effect: Students in higher-achieving schools will compare themselves with peers and consider themselves less capable, while equally performing students in lower-achieving settings have more confidence.#Education#learninghttps://t.co/nChvvJDIso
“Big-fish-little-pond” is a concept in which students in higher-achieving schools will compare themselves with their peers and consider themselves less capable, while equally performing students in lower-achieving settings have more confidence.
A new Stanford-education study provides new evidence of “big-fish-little-pond” effect on students globally.
Following is a Quote from Malcolm Gladwell’s “David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants”
“Any class, no matter how able, will always have a bottom quarter. What are the effects of the psychology of feeling average, even in a very able group? Are there identifiable types with the psychological or what-not tolerance to be ‘happy’ or to make the most of education while in the bottom quarter?” He knew exactly how demoralizing the Big Pond was to everyone but the best. To Glimp’s mind, his job was to find students who were tough enough and had enough achievements outside the classroom to be able to survive the stress of being Very Small Fish in Harvard’s Very Large Pond. Thus did Harvard begin the practice (which continues to this day) of letting in substantial numbers of gifted athletes who have academic qualifications well below the rest of their classmates. If someone is going to be cannot fodder in the classroom, the theory goes, it’s probably best if that person has an alternative avenue of fulfillment on the football field.”
Children in Singapore will no longer be ranked by exam results. Learning is not a competition,” states Ong Ye Kung, Singapore’s Education Ministerhttps://t.co/YqlLuJTDt0
Singapore has long been an educational high-achiever, Scoring high onPISA scores, promoting rote learning and long study hours to propel school children toward exam success.
Discussions, homework, and quizzes are set to replace marks and grades as the favored method of collecting information on the performance of primary school students.
Older primary and secondary students will also study in a less competitive environment.
Listen to the following video in which Stanford professor and noted researcher Linda Darling-Hammond discusses what the United States can learn from high-achieving countries on teaching, learning, and assessment — from Finland to Singapore
Early evaluation,early feedback and early intervention for student success; Driven from the conclusion that the grades students receive early in a course can be used to predict how they will score on a cumulative final exam. https://t.co/f4yUmzSSHr
The results of the regression analysis showed that early, but not intermediate, evaluative feedback was predictive of students’ scores on the final cumulative exam.
Similar but twisted analogy here in entrepreneurial #learning , Just asking the customer what they think may not contribute to real intelligence if the product is new and innovative. To Quote Henry Ford If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. https://t.co/RpHlqmoR9W
If you're going to 'just ask the kids' for student-led instruction/practice, please make sure there's evidence of effectiveness. If a student says they learn best by rereading their notes…they're wrong. Just going with what the student says isn't always correct.#leadupchat
I think this is where conferencing comes in. Using guided questions to help Ss see if they’re learning or not, if their strategies are effective or not. We have to teach Ss to self-assess if we want them to be life-long learners. #leadupchat
I had my Sophomores read a science-based article about how rereading doesn’t work, and half of them disagreed with it. Half ody class are science-deniers.
