Twitter Book Club: Robert L. Fried (2005) The Game of School - Chapter 7

Chapter Seven:
No Time to Waste

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anderscj"Most students crave opportunities to use their knowledge, their energy, and their sense of justice or injustice in... http://t.co/gofVwP2 55 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"Authentic learning is within our reach. We have no time to waste in figuring out how to make such an environment our own." Fried 55 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"Let us resolve to look at our students as the dynamic natural learners that they are, rather than the learning-ave... http://t.co/RAGJArq 55 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"we owe it to our students to adopt a critical posture, to raise questions about the importance or validity of our chosen topic." Fried 55 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"What if we invite our students to grapple with our skepticism, rather than our enthusiasm." Fried 55 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

Twitter Book Club: Robert L. Fried (2005) The Game of School - Chapter 6

Chapter Six:
Getting Stuck

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anderscj"We are stuck when we no longer view ourselves as growing in our craft but, instead, feel criticized for our inadeq... http://t.co/WIWoaZ8 57 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"There is a common perception that, by and large, teachers (as is true of many other professions) don't read widely... http://t.co/AhB3Hdj 57 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"Professionals should always be 'going to school.'" Fried 57 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

Twitter Book Club: Robert L. Fried (2005) The Game of School - Chapter 5

Chapter Five:
Humanizing "School Talk" in Pursuit of Authentic Learning

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anderscj"The child must want to learn what we adults teach, must feel that school is a friendly, safe, socially affirming, ... http://t.co/rSyCrsh 59 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"if what we seek is a learning partnership with students, we cannot remain aloof from them or be seen as demanding ... http://t.co/9TcB3uJ 59 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"what if instead of managing our students, we chose to enter into a partnership with them?" Fried 59 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"I worry that in focusing so much on the minority of 'problem kids,' inexperienced teachers unwittingly foster an e... http://t.co/5Rmfs4K 59 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"When control of the curriculum is seen as lying outside the classroom or school, and when the curriculum is loaded... http://t.co/RiCwozK 58 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

This pretty much sums up what Fried's whole book is about:

"When control of the curriculum is seen as lying outside the classroom or school, and when the curriculum is loaded with so much material that it can only be 'covered' through constant lecturing and note taking, students see the teacher as tied by marionette strings to an unseen, impersonal, yet constantly hovering master. Game-playing artificially replaces authenticity, and enduring learning falls by the wayside." Fried

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anderscj"Intimidated, subservient teachers make poor role models for students." Fried 58 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

Thank you Sandy Kress! This is what thou hath wrought.

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anderscj"I can't truly teach unless my students want to learn whatever it is I'm teaching them." Fried 58 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"all students are continuously motivating themselves with respect to their learning—even when they 'motivate' thems... http://t.co/35PxfUA 58 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"The traditional approach that almost all of us have experienced from kindergarten through graduate school assumes ... http://t.co/ojNcXXY 58 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

"The traditional approach that almost all of us have experienced from kindergarten through graduate school assumes that any lack of intrinsic motivation towards academics can be overcome by a good talking to, plus the judicious application of rewards and punishments." Fried

And of course this doesn't work. Enter Alfie Kohn, stage right....

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anderscj"Nothing the teacher can do can substitute for my own will to learn." Fried 58 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"how seldom we look at people, especially people who are poor or poorly educated, in terms of their strengths, rath... http://t.co/Go0fNDE 58 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"By understanding how vital self-motivation and natural learning appetites are in children, we take a huge step tow... http://t.co/KEkCQ6W 58 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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Sheila Stewart@anderscj I often come back in the morning to finish reading your "book club" tweets from the night before :) 58 days ago via web · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj@SheilaSpeaking thanks. I do it to spark conversation. Feel free to jump in. 58 days ago via Twitterrific · powered by @socialditto

Twitter Book Club: Robert L. Fried (2005) The Game of School - Chapter 4

Chapter Four:
Contemplating Our State Religion, and the Types of Learners Who Attend School Within Its Shadow

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anderscj"Test scores, rather than an enhanced emphasis on learning, become an end—become the end—in themselves (a rather co... http://t.co/ENPjPLg 60 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"The same God who gave you a brain must have been half-asleep when He or She created schools, since nobody in their... http://t.co/tUiz5gH 60 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"there are some students for whom school is almost entirely about hanging out with friends, and there are many othe... http://t.co/0JG03Rs 60 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto