{"id":4579,"date":"2014-12-22T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:34:01","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T16:34:01","slug":"how-deprogramming-kids-from-how-to-do-school-could-improve-learning-mindshift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/12\/22\/how-deprogramming-kids-from-how-to-do-school-could-improve-learning-mindshift\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u2018Deprogramming\u2019 Kids From How to \u2018Do School\u2019 Could Improve Learning | MindShift"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>This is a big part of what I&#8217;ve done in my practical gamification approach. <a href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/Gamification\/doku.phphttp:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">See more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2014\/12\/how-deprogramming-kids-from-how-to-do-school-could-improve-learning\/?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=2046\">How \u2018Deprogramming\u2019 Kids From How to \u2018Do School\u2019 Could Improve Learning | MindShift<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI felt I had to remove all the barriers I could on my end before I could ask my kids to meet me halfway,\u201d Holman said. The first thing he did was move to standards-based grading. He told his students to show him they\u2019d learned the material, it didn\u2019t matter how long it took them.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pull-quote half right\">\u2018We know how kids learn; we know what classes should look like, and yet our classes look almost the opposite.\u2019<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe kids realized this made sense,\u201d Holman said. He taught physics and math at Anderson High School in Austin, before moving on to become a vice-principal. His students were mostly well-off, high achievers, and they knew how to play the game to get the grades they needed. But Holman found when he changed the grading policy, students worried about grades less and focused more on working together to understand the material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turned my students into classmates and collaborators because I didn\u2019t have a system in place to deny the collaboration,\u201d Holman said. His students stopped copying homework. There was no curve that guaranteed some kids would be at the bottom. Instead, the class moved at its regular pace, but if a student persisted at a topic until they could show they understood it, Holman would give them credit. \u201cIt turned the kids on my side,\u201d Holman said. \u201cI was there to help them learn.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-4579'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4579);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(4579);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(4579);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>This is a big part of what I&#8217;ve done in my practical gamification approach. See more here. How \u2018Deprogramming\u2019 Kids From How to \u2018Do School\u2019 Could Improve Learning | MindShift. \u201cI felt I had to remove all the barriers I &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/12\/22\/how-deprogramming-kids-from-how-to-do-school-could-improve-learning-mindshift\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,9,352,24],"tags":[126,393],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-educational-technology","category-gamification-2","category-teaching-learning","tag-gamification","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1bR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3649,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/07\/22\/can-gamification-boost-independent-learning-mindshift\/","url_meta":{"origin":4579,"position":0},"title":"Can Gamification Boost Independent Learning? | MindShift","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Don't get me wrong, I think there is much potential in gamification, but I don't think the reward structure is the most important part. 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