Create A Curriculum That Questions The Purpose Of Knowledge
The purpose of curriculum is to provide a mutual language to organize and communicate knowledge–and students inherit its implications.
8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions
A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.
How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different
The shift toward a fluid, formless, socialized nature of information, thought, and belief is a not a small one.
63 Things Every Student Should Know In A Digital World
In an increasingly digital world, the things a student needs to know are indeed changing–sometimes drastically.
The Relationship Between Quality And Effect
What is the relationship between quality and effect? It’s partly causal but that’s not exactly it. But there is clearly interdependence.
What I Tell Students When They Say They Don’t Like To Read
Some readers may think they dislike the process of reading but everyone loves ideas–and reading is a wonderful strategy to find them.
Critical Thinking Is A Mindset
Critical thinking is certainly a ‘skill’ but when possessed as a mindset–a playful and humble willingness–it shifts from a labor to an art.
Is Great Teaching Sustainable?
Good teaching is addicting–a kind of magic. It’s also unsustainable by the standards we’ve created for schools and teachers.
Why Being Wrong Is Actually A Good Thing
This is first about how the process of becoming wrong—the sweeping of the arms out in front of you as you search—helps you become right.
The Challenge Of Scale In Learning
What scale in learning should someone operate on to ensure that they are aware and in control of their effects on the things around them?
A Comprehensive Gamification Framework For Human Motivation
Education also withholds permanent markers of performance until the end of a semester to motivate students and demonstrate control.
20 Ways To Bring The Joy Back To Your Classroom
The potential for new learning spaces and dynamics represents an opportunity for a different kind of resonance–and hopefully, joy.
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