I am still unpacking what Chris Dede said earlier this month in San Antonio. He was speaking to teacher educators, and so turned his presentation on blended contextualized learning communities (BCLC) to the question What do teacher preparation program look like?
Most interesting to me because work with in-service teachers was his idea that we need to become communities of unlearners-- the inverse of the common phrase of communities of learners. His characterization is spot-on. If we hope to build classrooms that get to the foundations of human learning, that prepare students for unimaginable futures, and use technologies that give us access to vast information and interaction, then we must first unlearn generations of now obsolete ideas and practices.
It strikes me that our students should be our role models for this... they have become skilled learners... quickly accommodating new tools and news ideas into their communication practices.
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