ED307 - Partnering Pedagogies

 

Teaching Digital Natives is a book but more importantly a great resource for all participants in the education space to look within themselves and totally transform the way that they think about understanding and delivering education to 21st-century students. Partnering is a book "For Real Learning." As we continue to search for fresh ideas of how to relate and connect with the students of today, we can pause, stop, and push play on the ideas that Marc Prensky has outlined so eloquently and intellectually in his book, "Teaching Digital Natives".  

I will use partnering in my future as a tool to insert and extract learning from a perspective on collaboration and collective thought mining.  Teachers and students have an opportunity to reach deeper into the possibilities of learning information and translating that information into effective learning. We are responsible for the way we learn, and we shouldn't be held to a system of industrial 20th-century learning, but of asking ourselves questions about what is, and what we can? 

The idea behind partnering pedagogies is refreshing and one takes to own the responsibility to ask questions that delve deeper into a new concept of teaching and learning.  The idea of teachers asking questions and students taking ownership over their own learning is unique and individual. 

Partnering is transformational, holistic, and forward-thinking. We don't have to stand by and settle for just getting by, but we now have the tools to express our passions and define our true purpose for why we want to learn.