Chapter 9 Continuous Improvement Through Practice and Sharing

1. How can I (and my students) continuously improve through
iteration, practice, and sharing?
2. How can I (and my students) move to higher levels of
partnering?
3. How can I (and my students) eliminate boredom?

Most current students have been schooled, up till now,
under the old paradigm of being told and asked to regurgitate. Learning on
their own, with their teacher as a coach and guide, is a new experience for
most of them.

There are three main routes to continuous improvement: iteration,
practice, and sharing.


ITERATION 

 Repeat a process until you get the goal
 Remove things that doenst work

, keep a journal.

A great strength of the partnering pedagogy is

that not every student has to do things the same way.                  

Taking Motivating Strategies From Video Games

The designers of the best games

manage to accomplish many of the things we, as partnering teachers, are

looking to do to motivate our students, so we can and should use many of

the same motivational techniques that game designers use.

The older, predigital generation was raised not to share—their motto was “knowledge is power; keep it close to the vest"
while the generation of digital natives (which includes most of our students) has grown up thinking that sharing information (by posting, blogging, texting, tweeting, etc.) is precisely how you get recognition and power. The motto of the younger generation, if it had one, would be
“sharing is power.”

Prensky suggest that the best way to share info is making a short video, other way is spaking with colleagues.

PARTNERING TIPS

Talk with your students,

Find and consult with colleagues who teach in your subject and

grade level who have tried this before and have been successful.

Search the Web for good examples of partnering. The best

places to start are probably YouTube, SchoolTube, and

TeacherTube.

Think about the tools (nouns) associated with those verbs.

Prensky conclude giving several advices of how the  teachers could be successful becoming partnering teachers, its important been conscious with the difficulties it could appear in the way, that doesnt mean its impossible.it just needs more effort and patience