Cultural Capital and Curriculum Remixing

A Rich Seam : How New Pedagogies Find Deep Learning; Fullan, Michael & Langworthy, Maria, (2014) A really long but interesting report here (full report embedded below) that despite feeling a little too biased and a little too much like it was desperatley trying to sell these new pedagogies at all costs, does actually help me think that part of my project can use this type of 'deep learning' pedagogy as there is significant overlap with what i am trying to do with elements of curation pedagogy and independent background culture work. Highlights:  pgii "Increasingly, digital access is freeing teaching and learning from the constraints of prescribed curricular content. These forces drive changes in the roles and relationships of students and teachers, among teachers, and within organisational systems...   Helping students learn about themselves as learners and continuously assess and reflect upon their own progress is essential to this process. The new ...

So I have also been reading this report by Emma Sims, (2006) around initial ideas for 'Deep Learning' Here she outlines how older school pedagogy focussed on 'Surface learning' Her section around  'Growing learner Autonomy is also interesting as it may be a secondary factor/beneft in my study. 

Today i have been mostly reading.... Learning about learning; What every teacher needs to know,  (2015) Laura Pomerance, Julie Greenberg and Kate Walsh, National Council on Teacher Quality. Report accessed at:  www.nctq.org/dmsStage/Learning_About_Learning_Report   (Embedded below) To save you reading the whole thing, just read the page below. It outlines the main principles of the report in that they found that text books do not adequately advise people on the best 6 strategies for instruction. The best 6 are below. The reason that this is relevant to my project is that perhaps when i am thinking of my solution for this problem i can encorporate some of these strategies into the student blogging process. Certainly points 1 + 2 below are both clearly possible with a online diary type platform.