Mimi Ito – Translation, Triggers, and Transitions: What does it take to connect interests to achievement?

March 22, 2012
10:00am - 11:00am PST
By Educator Innovator

What support can parents & educators provide young people to connect interests with school, career & politically relevant achievement?

Key Questions and Comments:

  • (10:36) How do we connect kids’ interests and their social engagements to the kinds of engagements that will open up opportunity in their adult-driven lives?
  • (13:05)What are the supports that could bring more kids into connected learning environments? What are the barriers, whether it’s economic, psychological, or cultural?
  • (14:50) Have you seen, in your own work, some promising directions in terms of processes or programs or technologies or ways of engaging youth that can help bridge that divide?
  • (18:47) I guess my issue is working with all the different departments and getting them all on board and I’m not sure how other people have dealt with that?
  • (19:06) Do you find that the teachers in the subject areas are open to some of those technology practices entering more of the core curriculum of the school?
  • (25:35) Is it still difficult to bring this connected learning into a school setting? Does connected learning include English Language Learners (ELLs)?
  • (34:42) What do you mean that school is intended for a ‘smaller audience’?
  • (36:38) As parents, what do we need to be asking our school districts to help them understand and adopt connected learning?
  • (40:43) How can I [as a parent] function as a mentor in the classroom? Is there an expertise or mentor model that a school could adopt? How do you scale that across the culture of the district?
  • (50:55) If school is just a ‘node’ in the network of learning, how do schools learn from the other parts of the network?

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