Recommended+Reading

"Share and Grow through Reading and Practice".
Below ar e readings that can help support both views for the Great Debate. Please add any readings that can benefit the group for th edebate and generaly. It would be helpful to list these under appropriate subheadings where possible. 

__ Developing and Sustaining Successful Learning Communities __
[|Professional Learning Communities: What Are They And Why Are They Important?] This paper focuses on what Astuto and colleagues (1993) label //the professional community of learners,// in which the teachers in a school and its administrators continuously seek and share learning and then act on what they learn. The goal of their actions is to enhance their effectiveness as professionals so that students benefit. This arrangement has also been termed //communities of continuous inquiry and improvement.//



__ The Great Debate __
**//“21st Century Learners Thrive on Traditional Teaching Styles” //** Debate Leaders: Bob abd Roger. Are your teams getting ready? This is worth a good look. It could be developed as checklist for your staff to use when reflecting on their Class ICT Use? ||  || === [|21st Century Connections] === This site is a myriad of links to articles and thinkings on 21st Century learning environments  || A Learning Theory for the Digital Age (Podcast) ||= ||= ===[|To Wikipedia or Not?]=== Are we risking academic rigour? || Instructivism vs Constructivism
 * === [|Characteristics of Excellent ICT Lessons] ===
 * = ===[|Connectivism]===
 * = ===[|Went To A FIght & A Conference Broke out]===
 * = ===[|Went To A FIght & A Conference Broke out]===

[|"The Paper" by Kirshner Sweller & Clark] [|Stephen Downes Counter Punch] ||=  ||= ===[|New Skills for a New Century]=== In short, learning -- and schooling -- must be totally transformed. || Integration of technology does not mean that more traditional educational methods become outdated. ||=  ||= ===[|The Need For Evidence Based Education]=== We must insist that schools of education cease teaching future teachers as if constructivism is the only valid instructional method. ||
 * = ===[|Traditional Teaching vs Computer Mediated Collaborative Learning]===
 * = ===[|Traditional Teaching vs Computer Mediated Collaborative Learning]===

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