No Where To Run, No Where To Hide

No where to run, no where to hide The bold new future of EDUCATION Keith R Iwanicki Human Brain EED 667 Summer 2009

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The Old Way… ØIn the past, we prepared teachers by better educating them in their fields ØAllow teachers to bring in their life experiences  to enrich & motivate ØAllow students time to discover their interests and paths ØAllow students to learn from failure and discover what works for them ØStudents had the human right of privacy 

The New Way ØSpend professional time on meeting testing standards and behavior interventions ØHave teacher learn and practice collaboratively ØPrepare a detailed dossier for each child:  track behaviors, attitudes, interests, thoughts,  attention, as well as cognitive data of every student ØMine data using every possible  format 

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No where to run…No where to hide

In Connecticut, get to every student 

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school districts are allowed to use a process known as Response to Intervention (RTI) as part of identification procedures for learning disabilities… RTI involves providing scientific, research-based instruction and intervention matched to student needs, with important educational decisions based on students’ levels of performance and learning rates over time. Rather than limiting the provision of instructional and social/behavioral supports for those students classified under a particular label or program, supports are provided to all students, based on individual needs. From CT State Education Resource Center

We will need a 6 sense for teachers to data mine everyone !

The ADD answer for all students 

Besides drugs, another answer says Tom Snyder is to follow the SLANT program and grade each student on compliance (Cambridge College, 7/2009) to the attention program. Teachers would be followed with data collection as well

Using fear as a motivator 

S – Sit up straight L – Lean forward A – Activate your thinking N – Note key ideas T – Track the talker So once you have the buy in and explain the strategy, model and practice by saying the S stands for “Sit up straight”, so everyone please sit up straight. The L stands for “Lean forward” so everyone please lean forward in their chairs. The A stands for “Activate your thinking” so everyone turn on their thinking caps. The N stands for “Note key ideas” so everyone knows we are talking about SLANT right now. The T stands for “Track the talker” so everyone look straight at whoever has the floor and is talking right now. Bring some fun in it with “Track the talker”. Walk around the room, stand in the back, even get under a desk, and have the students track you and your words wherever you move about. The beauty of this strategy is that when the students aren’t paying attention, or listening or taking notes, instead of constantly saying pay attention, or sit up, or stop talking out, you can just say “SLANT” or “Everyone needs to SLANT” and they will immediately know what you mean. Others who come into your room will be truly amazed to see this strategy in action. When your students are “slanting” they are truly primed and ready for fully engaging in the learning process.

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http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art48616.asp

Fix the attention span ! Our children are in the process of making multitask brains that our unable to fully concentrate on one thought or idea…  “As U.S. children are exposed to 8½ hours of TV, video games, computers and other media a day — often at once — are they losing the ability to concentrate?  Are their developing brains becoming hard-wired to "multi-task lite" rather than learn the focused critical thinking needed for a democracy? “ 

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“Children are more attuned to distractions around them. "They attend to everything — the air vents creaking, someone talking. They bounce from task to task. Teachers here say kids have more trouble getting organized, and their attention spans are not as good as they used to be," says school psychologist Tamara Waters-Wheeler of the Bismarck-Mandan, N.D., public schools. Studies with college students and adults show that the brain doesn't work as well when it focuses on more than one task, Walsh says. If the challenge demands a lot of attention, mental performance is particularly poor. But he says there are no such studies on today's kids as they multi-task with new media — instantmessaging, plugged into an iPod and doing homework at the same time.” Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY 3/2005

Direct Connect to the Brain: A better way to monitor students

Steven Hassan's BITE model for Mind Control (for students & teachers ?) 

In his book, Hassan describes the components of the BITE model: ◦ Regulation of individual’s physical reality ◦ Major time commitment required for indoctrination sessions and group rituals ◦ Need to ask permission for major decisions ◦ Need to report thoughts, feelings, and activities to superiors ◦ Rewards and punishments (behavior modification techniques positive and negative) ◦ Individualism discouraged; "group think" prevails ◦ Rigid rules and regulations ◦ Need for obedience and dependency Wikipedia, mind control

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When will it end ? Can students ever truly be free again ? Is school a place to learn if you wish or a

programmed mind control center, where the aim is the highest test score… Can a student daydream in class ever again ? Can a child take a break from the school confines and be by himself? Will we ever grant children the privacy they deserve?

Can the Matrix be far behind?