Yup--constant search for the one true way is simply ridiculous. Basis of much of my research into structuring school structure(s) is that one size (type of school, type of pedagogy, schedule etc.) does on and has never fit all! Lehman was right then (he used to regularly report on the Ed. beat) and his predictions have been right on. Sadly. The tit for tat, manifesto á manifesto is the blueprint sadly of what now passes for “reform.”
The silver bullet. You know what bothers me? The assumption that teachers don’t know what they’re doing, that teacher prep programs don’t prepare teachers well, and that teachers welcome scripts and canned lessons. So support them if you think that. Don’t dehumanize them. Take all of the paraphernalia away--the grades, the grading, the credits, the textbooks, the tests, the curriculum, the political pressure. Rewrite the whole system from the ground up with learning in the center of the blueprint--learning for everyone involved--and reboot. Sarason was right. Michael Fullan too. Predictable failure of educational reform is rooted in piecemeal changes by zealots looking for silver bullets.
Indeed it does. Share opens the door to any and all secondary capabilities and resources. If readers restrict their access to information during autonomous reading events, the self-teaching mechanism would likely fail more frequently. Share does not imply that kids should be placed in reading situations designed to restrict their access to all available resources
Yup--constant search for the one true way is simply ridiculous. Basis of much of my research into structuring school structure(s) is that one size (type of school, type of pedagogy, schedule etc.) does on and has never fit all! Lehman was right then (he used to regularly report on the Ed. beat) and his predictions have been right on. Sadly. The tit for tat, manifesto á manifesto is the blueprint sadly of what now passes for “reform.”
The silver bullet. You know what bothers me? The assumption that teachers don’t know what they’re doing, that teacher prep programs don’t prepare teachers well, and that teachers welcome scripts and canned lessons. So support them if you think that. Don’t dehumanize them. Take all of the paraphernalia away--the grades, the grading, the credits, the textbooks, the tests, the curriculum, the political pressure. Rewrite the whole system from the ground up with learning in the center of the blueprint--learning for everyone involved--and reboot. Sarason was right. Michael Fullan too. Predictable failure of educational reform is rooted in piecemeal changes by zealots looking for silver bullets.
I appreciate this explanation of Share's self-teaching hypothesis and how it seems to differ from the way SoR advocates interpret work.
Indeed it does. Share opens the door to any and all secondary capabilities and resources. If readers restrict their access to information during autonomous reading events, the self-teaching mechanism would likely fail more frequently. Share does not imply that kids should be placed in reading situations designed to restrict their access to all available resources