No where to run, no

where to hide
The bold new future of
EDUCATION

Keith R Iwanicki
Human Brain EED 667
Summer 2009
Allow song to play
The Old Way…
ØIn the past, we prepared teachers by
better educating them in their fields
ØAllow teachers to bring in their life experiences
 to enrich & motivate
ØAllow students time to discover their interests and
paths
ØAllow students to learn from failure and discover
what works for them
ØStudents had the human right of privacy
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The New Way
ØSpend professional time on meeting testing
standards and behavior interventions
ØHave teacher learn and practice collaboratively
ØPrepare a detailed dossier for each child:
 track behaviors, attitudes, interests, thoughts,
 attention, as well as cognitive data of every student
ØMine data using every possible
 format
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 The New Student Reality

 No where to
run…No where
to hide
In Connecticut, get to every
student
 school districts are allowed to use a process known as
Response to Intervention (RTI) as part of
identification procedures for learning disabilities…
RTI involves providing scientific, research-based
instruction and intervention matched to student
needs, with important educational decisions based on
students’ levels of performance and learning rates
over time. Rather than limiting the provision of
instructional and social/behavioral supports
for those students classified under a
particular label or program, supports are
provided to all students, based on individual
needs.
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From CT State Education Resource Center
We will need a 6 sense for
teachers to data mine
everyone !
The ADD answer for all students
 Besides drugs, another answer
says Tom Snyder is to follow the
SLANT program and grade each
student on compliance
(Cambridge College, 7/2009) to
the attention program. Teachers
would be followed with data
collection as well
Using fear as a motivator
 S – Sit up straight
L – Lean forward
A – Activate your thinking
N – Note key ideas
T – Track the talker
So once you have the buy in and explain the strategy, model and practice by saying the S
stands for “Sit up straight”, so everyone please sit up straight. The L stands for “Lean
forward” so everyone please lean forward in their chairs. The A stands for “Activate your
thinking” so everyone turn on their thinking caps. The N stands for “Note key ideas” so
everyone knows we are talking about SLANT right now. The T stands for “Track the
talker” so everyone look straight at whoever has the floor and is talking right now. Bring
some fun in it with “Track the talker”. Walk around the room, stand in the back, even get
under a desk, and have the students track you and your words wherever you move about.
The beauty of this strategy is that when the students aren’t paying attention, or listening
or taking notes, instead of constantly saying pay attention, or sit up, or stop talking out,
you can just say “SLANT” or “Everyone needs to SLANT” and they will immediately know
what you mean. Others who come into your room will be truly amazed to see this strategy
in action. When your students are “slanting” they are truly primed and ready for fully
engaging in the learning process.
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 http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art48616.asp
Fix the attention span !
 Our children are in the process of making multi-
task brains that our unable to fully concentrate
on one thought or idea…
 “As U.S. children are exposed to 8½ hours of TV,
video games, computers and other media a day —
often at once — are they losing the ability to
concentrate?
 Are their developing brains becoming hard-wired
to "multi-task lite" rather than learn the focused
critical thinking needed for a democracy? “
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 “Children are more attuned to distractions around
them. "They attend to everything — the air vents
creaking, someone talking. They bounce from task to
task. Teachers here say kids have more trouble
getting organized, and their attention spans are not
as good as they used to be," says school psychologist
Tamara Waters-Wheeler of the Bismarck-Mandan,
N.D., public schools.
 Studies with college students and adults show that the
brain doesn't work as well when it focuses on more
than one task, Walsh says. If the challenge demands
a lot of attention, mental performance is particularly
poor. But he says there are no such studies on today's
kids as they multi-task with new media — instant-
messaging, plugged into an iPod and doing
homework at the same time.”
 Marilyn Elias, USA TODAY 3/2005
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Direct Connect to the Brain:
A better way to monitor students
Steven Hassan's BITE model
for Mind Control (for students &
teachers ?)
 In his book, Hassan describes the components of the
BITE model:
◦ Regulation of individual’s physical reality
◦ Major time commitment required for indoctrination
sessions and group rituals
◦ Need to ask permission for major decisions
◦ Need to report thoughts, feelings, and activities to
superiors
◦ Rewards and punishments (behavior modification
techniques positive and negative)
◦ Individualism discouraged; "group think" prevails
◦ Rigid rules and regulations
◦ Need for obedience and dependency
 Wikipedia, mind control
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 When will it end ?

Can students ever truly be free again ?

Is school a place to learn if you wish or a
programmed mind control center, where the
aim is the highest test score…
Can a student daydream in class ever again ?
Can a child take a break from the school
confines and be by himself?
Will we ever grant children the privacy they
deserve?
Can the Matrix be far
behind?