{"id":6835,"date":"2018-02-10T09:51:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T16:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2018-02-10T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T16:51:30","slug":"worth-sharing-education-is-performance-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/10\/worth-sharing-education-is-performance-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Worth Sharing: Education Is Performance Art"},"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><blockquote><p>The first job of a teacher is to make the student fall in love with the subject. That doesn\u2019t have to be done by waving your arms and prancing around the classroom; there\u2019s all sorts of ways to go at it, but no matter what, you are a symbol of the subject in the students\u2019 minds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2016\/01\/what-classrooms-can-learn-from-magic\/425100\/?utm_source=atlfb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/facebook.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Teller, of the entertainment duo Penn &amp; Teller, explains how magic and discomfort made his teaching come alive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2016\/01\/what-classrooms-can-learn-from-magic\/425100\/\">Education Is Performance Art<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-6835'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(6835);\" 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(6835);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(6835);\">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>The first job of a teacher is to make the student fall in love with the subject. That doesn\u2019t have to be done by waving your arms and prancing around the classroom; there\u2019s all sorts of ways to go at &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/10\/worth-sharing-education-is-performance-art\/\">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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[9,373,24],"tags":[389,16,393],"class_list":["post-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-students","category-teaching-learning","tag-educational-technology","tag-instructional-design","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-1Mf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5240,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/08\/04\/quiz-yourself-how-good-are-you-at-teaching-the-art-of-learning-mindshift\/","url_meta":{"origin":6835,"position":0},"title":"Quiz Yourself: How Good Are You at Teaching the Art of Learning? | MindShift","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"August 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A different way to present material. It might be fun to do this instead of the usual lecture. Quiz Yourself: How Good Are You at Teaching the Art of Learning? | MindShift | KQED News.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"q","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/q-281x300.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6846,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/02\/22\/worth-sharing-would-college-students-retain-more-if-professors-dialed-back-the-pace\/","url_meta":{"origin":6835,"position":1},"title":"Worth Sharing: Would College Students Retain More If Professors Dialed Back The Pace?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Why do we forget so much of what we read? Anthropologist Barbara J. 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When I was working on my PhD I even wrote several papers about learning styles\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Educational Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Educational Technology","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/educational-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/4422952742_8d6f0d99f4_o-510x339.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4126,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2014\/07\/27\/taylor-francis-online-do-learners-really-know-best-urban-legends-in-education-educational-psychologist-volume-48-issue-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":6835,"position":3},"title":"Taylor &#038; Francis Online :: Do Learners Really Know Best? Urban Legends in Education &#8211; Educational Psychologist &#8211; Volume 48, Issue 3","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Taylor & Francis Online :: Do Learners Really Know Best? Urban Legends in Education - Educational Psychologist - Volume 48, Issue 3. Digital Natives, Learning Styles, Self-Educators. Yup. None of these are backed up by any data. I have great respect for Marc Prensky, but the more we learn about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7164,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/12\/08\/worth-sharing-another-nail-in-the-coffin-for-learning-styles-students-did-not-benefit-from-studying-according-to-their-supposed-learning-style\/","url_meta":{"origin":6835,"position":4},"title":"Worth Sharing: \u201cAnother nail in the coffin for learning styles\u201d \u2013\u00a0students did not benefit from studying according to their supposed learning style","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I am glad to see more evidence against this notion. It's almost always a good idea to provide learning material in a variety of forms, but that's not the same as \"learning styles\". \u00a0It may now be time to bury the learning styles myth once and for all. By Christian\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7168,"url":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2018\/12\/10\/is-it-what-straight-a-students-get-wrong-or-is-it-what-we-get-wrong\/","url_meta":{"origin":6835,"position":5},"title":"IS it What Straight-A Students Get Wrong, or is it what WE get wrong?","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"December 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not the students' fault. Not making marks random, and reducing the risks of failure are what gives students more room to really think. We owe them that. We need to get rid of compartmentalized grading entirely, and quit blaming the students for responding appropriately to an unreasonable assessment system.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Academia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Academia","link":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/category\/academia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6837,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}