Are You Ready to Disrupt Learning? | Holly Clark | TEDxLangleyED

Learning needs to be disrupted. The way teachers think of themselves as learners needs to be disrupted, and the way we deliver instruction in classrooms need to be disrupted.
So how can we disrupt? We can start by making three simple changes. We need to change the focus of questions in education, how we gather information about student learning and growth, and we need to redefine what it means to be literate in the 21st Century.
With three simple changes we can hopefully create an atmosphere of binge learning in classrooms everywhere - where students learn to love learning again.
Holly Clark: She is an award-winning educator and speaker based in San Diego, CA and Portland, Oregon. She is both a National Board Certified Teacher and Google Certified Innovator. A long time teacher and administrator, Holly consults globally with schools to help them successfully and purposefully innovate instruction through the use of learning theory, technology integration and design thinking strategies. Holly holds an MA in Education from Columbia University, New York. She is an internationally recognized keynote speaker - passionately spreading the idea that we need to disrupt education and innovate our classroom curriculum. She is the Educational Strategist for EdTechTeam and head of their new publishing division - EdTechTeam Press. She authors a successful blog and her first book - Are You Ready to Disrupt? is due out in 2016.
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