Presentation for Fraser Heights Secondary School in Surrey, BC

1. ReDiscovering

2.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/praline3001/3651041716/
Joy,

3.
Wonder

4.
and

5. Play
What Really Matters

6. Who Am I?

7. Golfer
Husband/Father
Teacher
Who Am I?
Community Builder Learner Sharer

8. @shareski
shareski@gmail.com
shareski.ca

9. http://www.flickr.com/photos/22326055@N06/4181823128/

10. JOY
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22326055@N06/4181823128/

27. Does

28. Joy

29. Matter

30. in

31. HS?

44. With regards to creating a video like that do you:

45. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.

46. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.
B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful
things with students is important.

47. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.
B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful
things with students is important.
C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity
because you're not sure where it fits with a robust
curriculum but still think it's important.

48. With regards to creating a video like that do you:
A. Do it because it's not only fun but likely does address
some curricular outcomes but you might have to look
them up later. Fingers crossed.
B. Do it and to heck with the outcomes, doing joyful
things with students is important.
C. Do it but perhaps as an extra-curricular activity
because you're not sure where it fits with a robust
curriculum but still think it's important.
D. Not do it at all.

50. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

51. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
Why are our
schools not places
of joy?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

52. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
Why are our
schools not places
of joy?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

53. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
Why are our
schools not places
of joy?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

54. Feel-Bad Education
The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy
by: Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
I’m appearing to accept an
odious premise—namely,
that joy must be justified as
a means to the end of
better academic
performance. Not so:
It’s an end in itself.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/judybaxter/2333068171/

56. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfupamr/4579103337/
Learning should be a joy
and full of excitement.
It is life's greatest adventure;
it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of
noble and learned men. Taylor Caldwell

57. Does your classroom or your office have
room for joy?
Have we resigned ourselves to the idea
that joy is elusive or not important for
learning?

58. http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/education/pics/4_11_one_rm_school_520.jpg

59. wonder
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/education/pics/4_11_one_rm_school_520.jpg

65. Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed
in the styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and
the plant goes up
and nobody really
knows how or why, but
we are all like that.

69. 1,715

72. Do your students come to school to
wonder?
How do you model wonder and awe?

74. PLAY

75. http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/3601144842

77. “...the pattern has been that as children grow up and
become more proficient at making sense of the
environment in which they live, their world seems to
become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and
becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need
for play.”

78. “...the pattern has been that as children grow up and
become more proficient at making sense of the
environment in which they live, their world seems to
become more stable. Thus, as a child grows and
becomes accustomed to the world, the perceived need
for play.”
“As we watch the world move to a state of near-constant
change and flux, we believe that connecting play
and imagination may be the single most important
step in unleashing the new culture of learning.”

79. http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewarchy/2391115592

80. Problem Solvers

81. Problem Finders

82. “Don’t watch guys teach you. Watch guys learn. They
don’t know the answer. We’re in the journey together.
Now the audience are participants. And we see not only
the result but the process.” Marco Torres

83. “Don’t watch guys teach you. Watch guys learn. They
don’t know the answer. We’re in the journey together.
Now the audience are participants. And we see not only
the result but the process.” Marco Torres

86. http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/3165154438
If people did not do silly
things, nothing intelligent
would ever get done.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

87. http://ushahidi.com/

91. How are you making play an intentional
part of your day? Of your students day?

92. What

93. Really

94. Matters

95. to

96. You?

97. Thanks
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