What is the purpose of education?

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What is the purpose of education?

• A sample activity
• brought to you by DLMOOC

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Short free write (3 minutes)

• What should students learn in school?
• Why is this important?

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Pair-Share (3 minutes)

• Turn to a neighbor and share your ideas

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Questions

• (to consider while watching)
• Agreements What aspects of what the speaker says
  do you agree with?
• DisagreementsWhere do you disagree?
• Implications How does our school align with why
  the speaker loves education but hates
  schooling?

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Structured group conversation

• Round 1 First person describes where they agree
  with the video (1 minute or less). Next person
  has 15 seconds to paraphrase what person 1 says.
  Then 1 minute for their own answer.Continue to go
  around the circle.
• Round 2 Where do you disagree?
• Round 3 How does our school align with why the
  speaker loves education but hates schooling?

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Report out

• Questions and next steps
• In the same small groups, create a poster to
  share with the whole group.
• 3 key takeaways.
• Share out ideas with whole group

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Whole group discussion

• Does our school encourage students to do work
  worth doing?
• How could we improve our school?

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Extension Activity

• Looking at the themes that have emerged have
  students redesign a school from the group up.
• --What would this school look and feel like?
• --What would students be doing? Teachers?
• --Create an artifact from that new school