‘The Freelancer’s Manifesto’ Is Something Every Student Should Know
If ‘freelancing’ is working for yourself to do things that matter to you, how can you help students develop a vision for this kind of work?
Why Every Student Should Be A Nerd
Today, nerds have all of the potential. Following and adhering and conforming are currencies less valuable in comparison.
Everyone Is A Novice With Technology
Technology is ubiquitous, fluid, and a matter of human experience. The crafting of things for our own use is ongoing and ever-evolving.
A Framework For Learning In Digital Networks
Consider the ‘collaborative problem-solving’ framework to guide your design of project-based learning or learning in digital networks.
14 Messages Every Student Needs To Hear From You
One message every student should hear from you: “The word ‘smart’ doesn’t mean anything so you and I aren’t going to use it anymore.”
6 Questions About John Hattie’s Meta-analyses: The Big Picture Of Data
What if a teaching strategy improves test scores but stifles creativity and ambition? Is that still a ‘win’?
What A Flat Classroom Looks Like
In a flat classroom, is no single authority for information or process, but rather dozens of sources of information and authority.
Bring On The Golden Age Of Learning Technology
The Golden Age Of Learning Technology by Terry Heick We are approaching the golden age of learning technology. In the same way that film in the 1930s through the 1950s was considered the golden age of Hollywood, and the 1950s and 1960s the golden age of television, teaching and learning with technology will likely hit…
Kurt Vonnegut Describes The Shape Of A Story
Every story, Vonnegut playfully asserts, can be ‘shaped’ on a Y-axis of Good Fortune & Ill Fortune extended along the X-axis of Time.
Why Apps Should Replace Textbooks In Your Classroom
Maybe apps can do everything a textbook can, but with the agility to enable sustained personalized instruction.
State Growth Contribution: Student Growth Percentiles–What?
Does the idea of a Median Student Growth Percentile sound intimidating? No worries, there’s a PowerPoint for that.
David Foster Wallace On What It Means To Think
“‘Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.”–David Foster Wallace
End of content
End of content