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Leidenschaftlicher Beitrag von Chris Lehmann anläßlich einer Konferenzvorbereitung, den ich an dieser Stelle zitiere, um mitzurufen:

I want to scream at these folks… I want to shake them up. I want to tell them that we have to stop thinking that business has any idea what schools need to be. I want to tell them that our reliance on test scores will kill innovation and creativity. I want to tell them that every time I go to the exhibit floor at a conference and see more tools for monitoring, accountability and security than I see tools for creativity, creation and collaboration, I see us move one more step away from the dream of what I believe our schools can be.

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I want to tell them that we have to forget so much of what we think school are now — we have to unlearn so much of current educational thinking. And then I want to tell them everything they have to relearn… I want to tell them that we can’t look to the future unless we are willing to learn from the past.

I want to tell them that pedagogy matters. That we have to empower, even if that means giving up the soft comforts of security… of filtering… of mandatory curriculum… of lecture.

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I want to ask them how a lecture matters when kids cannot see a connection between the work of the classroom and the life they see outside the school.

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I want to tell them that schools can’t be all things. We have to give up our notion that we can do everything. We can’t teach coverage and creativity. We can’t assess depth and breadth as our primary focus and have any kind of sanity. We can’t tell kids we want them to think for themselves, take ownership, solve the problems of the 21st century, oh and by the way, first you have to take this test that was made by someone you never met and if you don’t pass, forget all that stuff.

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Ich sehe hier zwar nicht nur die Pädagogik gefordert (sie scheint mir vielmehr überfordert angesichts der Komplexität der Zusammenhänge) – aber sie könnten sicherlich auch einen guten Beitrag leisten …

via Stephen Downes

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