tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340588566628074930.post6358091715390257014..comments2017-07-03T00:15:07.803-07:00Comments on If I Can Dream...: Reflections on Salman Khan's One World SchoolhouseSwitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00186200578980051282noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3340588566628074930.post-28835086475630682662014-10-19T08:24:45.081-07:002014-10-19T08:24:45.081-07:00Ray, you provide a strong example of how students ...Ray, you provide a strong example of how students can use inquiry and self-directed learning prior to the teacher initiating a new concept or skill. You post, in many ways, speaks strongly to the need for balance: Students investigating and researching on their own and teachers providing strong lessons, feedback and guidance. There is also a great deal of scaffolding happening here...but in a different way then we use it - students self-scaffolding based on their understanding or comfort with a new concept and thus, students moving at their own pace. Your comment/question regarding curriculum guidelines (or even standardized testing) reminds me that we need to start looking deeper into the pedagogical approach, at the policy level, of how standardized curriculum is developed and how the environment of schools can be changed based on the premise that students can learn more readily, at a self-directed pace. Zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05349198414916883571noreply@blogger.com