Disrupting+Class

Disrupting Class 20 July 2009

Vinnie Vrotny, Director of Academic Technology @ North Shore Country Day Has a weekly show []

Medina, John. __Brain Rules__ Brain research and the need for exercise

Christensen et al. __Disrupting Class__ Disruptive change. Innovation will change learning

Flip camera: take movies of classroom activities and post them for students, parents, teachers iPod: find podcasts, TED talks, etc. to expand world of learning

Disruptive technologies change what we are doing.

The New Global Student: [] Why Students Don’t Like School: [] This guy comes up a lot: [] What I think needs to be disrupted: the schedule, the use of teacher time, the way we construct curriculum, the way we give feedback, the ways we assess