I have heard Jamie McKenzie before and have enjoyed his books. He is really about pedagogy, not about tools, other than in how the tools can serve deeper learning. His session was based on articles he wrote:
- http://fno.org/mar09/digitallines.html
- http://fno.org/apr06/naep.html
He spoke of the need to keep children's wondering and curiosity alive. "Right answer teaching and peer pressure makes the kids' possibility of looking at the unusual drop off".
We need to help the students look through primary source material
e.g. - What kind of person was Matthew Flinders - knowing he was a British naval captain who was the first European to circumnavigate Australia?
Then look at letters - back up statements with evidence
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/flinders/
We have to get away from topical research into thinking.
A taxonomy of synthetic thought and production
The scale moves from bottom to top.invent - design – conceive – originate
distill – refine – extract the essence
improve – make better – enhance – fix (up)
adjust
paraphrase
summarize – reduce
smush – compact – condense - truncate
You can find out more in his article: A Taxonomy of Synthetic Thought and Production
The term “ reading” must be applied more broadly to include: reading images (faces), students have to understand how to “read a page”, understanding how we are being manipulated
Here are links to a few other of Jamie McKenzie's articles - he is always worth the read.
The New Reality: Making Sense of the World in an Age of Distortionhttp://fno.org/mar08/newreality.html
Filling the Toolbox: Classroom Strategies to Engender Student Questioning
http://fno.org/toolbox.html
Managing the Poverty of Abundance
http://fno.org/oct06/poverty.html
great resources for searching, finding photographs
Go to his site - there is lots more to read.
http://fno.org/
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