My school

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My school
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Structure in traditional schools
Fixed timetable
Teacher directed learning
Homework from day to day
Fixed workplace
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My grandson

• What kind of a school will he meet?
• Is it a school which facilitate for Johannes-
  for his strength and weaknesses?
• What competence will Johannes need when finished
  school in 2020?

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Three dimensions in the learning process

• A cognitiv process a connection between new
  information and existing knowledge.
• A psykological dimension concerning our feelings.
• A social dimension ,interaction between the
  learner and the learning situation.

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Learning environment in our millennium

• Students in 6th grade from Røyse school in Norway
  planning their day.
• The learning environment should facilitate for
  learning in the main class, in groups and for
  individual learning.
• The learning environment should facilitate for
  students learning style

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The structure for this millennium
Adapted learning environment
Parents-student-teacher conferences
Learning strategies
Teaching/courses
Portfolio
Thinking strategies
Individual talks Teacher - student
Adapted individual studyplan
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Six Thinking Hats
Informative
Intuitive
Constructive
Creative
Reflective
Cautious
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The Red Hat

• What do you feel about the suggestion?
• What are your gut reactions?
• What intuitions do you have?
• Dont think too long or too hard.

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The White Hat

• The information seeking hat.
• What are the facts?
• What information is available? What is relevant?
• When wearing the white hat we are neutral in our
  thinking.

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The Yellow Hat

• The sunshine hat.
• It is positive and constructive.
• It is about effectiveness and getting a job done.
• What are the benefits, the advantages?

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The Black Hat

• The caution hat.
• In black hat the thinker points out errors or
  pit-falls.
• What are the risks or dangers involved?
• Identifies difficulties and problems.

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The Green Hat

• This is the creative mode of thinking.
• Green represents growth and movement.
• In green hat we look to new ideas and solutions.
• Lateral thinking wears a green hat.

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The Blue Hat

• The control hat, organising thinking itself.
• Sets the focus, calls for the use of other hats.
• Monitors and reflects on the thinking processes
  used.
• Blue is for planning.

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Facilitate for learning

• How is it possible to facilitate for learning to
  each pupil compared to
• Skills
• Maturity
• Learning style
• Without knowing how they learn.

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Model learning style
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How does learning take place?

• Learning is supposed to be an active process in
  which the learner construct his/her knowledge.
• For such a constructive learning process to take
  place, a meaningful context is needed and what is
  more, opportunities to discuss the newly
  constructed knowledge with others. This is the
  core of nowadays views on learning. Learning is
  what experts call a social constructive process.
• (Jaap van Lakerveld/I-probenet)

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Environmental factors

• We are different when it comes to physical
  condition .
• Design
• Light
• Temperature
• Sound

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Emotional factors

• We are not equal when it comes to
• Endurance
• Motivation
• Responsibility
• Structure

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Sociological differences

• Some of us prefer to work
• Alone
• Two and two
• In a team
• Together with an adult
• For others It does not matter. We are flexible.

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Physiological differences

• Perceptual preferences
• Intake
• Time
• Mobility

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Perceptual preferences

• Visual
• Tactile
• Auditive
• Kinesthetic