Week One Summary

We made it!  

Recapping what we accomplished this week:

• We set up Twitter accounts and followed @mr_wires
• Learned about retweets, favorites, following, hashtags (#topic), and mentions (@username)
• Watched the comedy of Father Guido Sarducci:

• Is his comedy based in a true phenomenon?  Do we really forget the things we learn so easily?
• What does this tell us about memorization as an educational technique?
• What things do we need to remember?
• What things do we not need to remember?
• We also watched Sir Ken Robinson's talk on Changing Education Paradigms (beautifully animated by RSA Animate)

• What is Sir Ken Robinson's talk about, in a nutshell?
• What are some examples of convergence/conformity/standardization in your school?  
• What benefit does this paradigm offer?
• What are some negatives/weaknesses of this paradigm?
• What are some examples of divergence/creativity in your school?
• What benefit does this paradigm offer?
• What are some negatives/weaknesses of this paradigm?
• What would a school modeled on the new paradigm suggested in this talk be like?  
• Would you like to be a student in that school?
• We also took a look at Dr. Renata Nummela Caine's article on the 12 Brain Mind Learning Principles 
• We reflected as we read by tweeting our responses to #dmtwires
• ... we were told there would be an assignment based on this article and our tweets on Monday.

Have a great weekend everyone!