Tag Archive For "deeper learning"
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Everybody’s Designing
The ability of instructional leaders to identify high quality teaching, hold it up as exemplary, and support all teachers in making incremental progress toward being exemplary remains crucial under the social-distancing regime, but it’s more difficult than ever because everybody’s designing. State boards and their bureaucratic hordes convene in dimly-lit video conferences to conjure the …
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”
Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of how we meet and why it matters, provides key insights into at least three crucial aspects of excellent teaching: establishing purpose, cultivating generous authority, and ending well. Parker’s book’s written for a general reader; anyone who has …
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Machine Poets of the Apocalypse
A frontier in machine learning seeks to mimic human learning by assembling computers into teams to solve problems. This type of deep learning, called “reinforcement learning,” allows machines to acquire knowledge, take collective action with that knowledge, and observe the consequences on their world and on their teammates. This machine deep learning environment unsurprisingly mimics …
Links to Deeper Learning
Over the course of several days, fifty teachers established what makes deeper learning for students possible. Three themes emerged: connections, purpose, and intellectual depth. What existing practices and tactics, related to these themes, can we tap into to create a shared infrastructure on which to design and facilitate deeper learning experiences for students? A partial …
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Three: Ending Well(If you haven’t read part one, on establishing purpose, or part two, on facilitating well, I’d [keep reading...]
Treating Classes Like Gatherings, Part Two: Teaching With Generous Authority(If you haven’t read part one, about establishing purpose, consider starting there.) After [keep reading...]
Why Teachers Should Consider Their Classes “Gatherings”Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, a book that, as the subtitle suggests, takes up the subject of [keep reading...]