Education 2.0 & 3.0
148.5K views | +8 today
Follow
Education 2.0 & 3.0
All about learning and technology
Curated by Yashy Tohsaku
Your new post is loading...
Your new post is loading...
Rescooped by Yashy Tohsaku from Professional Learning for Busy Educators
Scoop.it!

Rigor, Grit, Collaboration: Teachers Share Why Buzzwords Don’t Always Inspire (EdSurge News)

Rigor, Grit, Collaboration: Teachers Share Why Buzzwords Don’t Always Inspire (EdSurge News) | Education 2.0 & 3.0 | Scoop.it
Teachers are no strangers to education jargon. From legal acronyms to the names of edtech trends, there seems to be an unending stream of new buzzwords—and accompanying tools—for educators to learn.

But when jargon goes viral, it sometimes gets, shall we say, overused. (If you want to see how extreme the problem can get, check out the giggle-inducing Jargon Generator.) The consequence is teachers tire of hearing the same terminology over and over, and the true meaning of important concepts becomes diluted or lost.

I’ve noticed this happening quite a bit lately. So a couple of weeks ago, I posed a question to my friends on Facebook: Which education buzzwords drive you crazy, and why?

Via John Evans
No comment yet.
Rescooped by Yashy Tohsaku from iGeneration - 21st Century Education (Pedagogy & Digital Innovation)
Scoop.it!

October 2015: Buzzwords in Education

October 2015: Buzzwords in Education | Education 2.0 & 3.0 | Scoop.it

Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
No comment yet.
Rescooped by Yashy Tohsaku from Teaching in Higher Education
Scoop.it!

Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle  

Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle   | Education 2.0 & 3.0 | Scoop.it

Education buzzwords come and go, just as the fads they sometimes represent.


For a variety of reasons, the buzz phrases also come to take on new meanings that were never intended originally, which makes it hard for educators, entrepreneurs and researchers to communicate clearly and hone in on what exactly they are trying to do and why. This is problematic. As Clayton Christensen recently said to me, just as people have taken the phrase “disruptive innovation” to justify whatever they already wanted to do, people are using the phrase personalized learning—and a whole host of other terms—in a similar manner.

2

Via Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.
Rosemary Tyrrell, Ed.D.'s curator insight, January 4, 2017 11:21 AM
Interesting article and well worth a read.