Speaking about the opportunities there are for learning in our world today through technology, I asked educators in the room to do a “Twitter Video Reflection” and share their learning back to the hashtag. Since many of them were new to Twitter, they didn’t know how to do it, so I decided to not help them.
Not a type…I decided to not help them.
Here’s the thing…they all figured it out. Some took longer than others, and some figured it out after they saw that someone else could. I actually think it went faster than if I would have shown them step-by-step.
Too often we talk about how we want to develop learners as students, but we still set up too much of our professional development where we will walk people through every element of any type of learning.
The balance of supporting and pressuring needs to be place; we can not spoon-feed learning to the adults in the room, or we model the exact opposite of what we say we want from our kids.
Source: George Couros
from Connected Principals http://ift.tt/2bPHwgn
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