This document discusses education and learning in three main points: 1) It quotes "If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn" to advocate teaching students in a way that matches their learning styles. 2) It notes that 1 in 4 children have an online presence before birth, showing how digital tools are increasingly part of children's lives. 3) It presents a diagram contrasting formal vs informal and intentional vs incidental learning, arguing that learning takes place through both planned and unplanned means.

1. In Education

2. “If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe
we should teach the way they learn.”
- Ignacio Estrada

4. Flickr photo by
umpcportal.com
http://tinyurl.com/29yepm8

5. 1 in 4
children
have an online
presence before they
are even born.

6. Flickr photo by Victor Bezrukov
(Pew Internet , Social Media and Young Adults, 2009)

7. Photo Credit
http://wordpost.org/2009/10/against-
pronouncing-email-blogs-dead/

9. Flickr photo by Johan Larsson

10. Flickr photo by Daveography

11. Branding our District

12. http://www.intersectionconsulting.com/blog/?cpage=xxudwjoepto&paged=4

13. Moundsview
Stillwater
Osseo
Mankato
District287
Spring Lake Park Schools

14. Law that requires schools to block
sites that are:
•Obscene
•Pornography
•Harmful to minors
(for computers that are accessed
by minors).
Flickr photo by enggul

16. • Organization controls • Learner controls
objectives objectives
• eLearning • Community
• Classes • Playing
Formal Informal
Learning
Incidental Intentional
• Indirect and • Planned to reach
unplanned goals
• Surfing/social media • Reading
• Observations • Coaching
• Mentoring

17. http://internettime.pbworks.com/

21. The district strongly discourages
teachers from accepting invitations to
friend students within these personal
social networking sites.

22. Flickr photo by escapedtowisconsin

23. Flickr photo by stijnbokhove

25. Flickr photo by splorp

27. Time on Task
(Students & Staff)

28. Would you Ban the Pencil?
• A student might poke out the eye of another
student.
• A student might write a dirty word with one.
Or even write a whole harassing note and pass
it to another student.
• One student might have a mechanical pencil
making those with wooden ones feel bad.
• Kids might be doodling instead of working on
their assignments.
Doug Johnson, BFTP: Rules for Pod People and
a Proposal to Ban Pencils (via Blue Skunk)

29. Next Steps?