What Vonnegut Might Say About Your Teaching
I’m in the middle of “Breakfast of Champions” by Kurt Vonnegut, and I stumbled on a magic secret about teaching I want to share with you.
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“We shouldn’t assume people know what digital citizenship is.”
Planning the Digital Citizenship Summit provided us with insight into how the education world can better promote digital citizenship.
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GMOs: A Timely Inquiry-Based Learning Topic
Do we fully understand the long-term effects of science–and if we don’t, how should that change how we “practice science”?
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20 Questions Parents Should Ask Teachers About Their Child’s Education
One of the most significant challenges facing formal education in the United States is the chasm separating schools and communities.
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Creating A Fire For Inquiry Starts At The Beginning
If You Want To Create A Fire For Inquiry, Start At The Beginning by Brian Cleary, oldbrainteacher.com If science is inquiry and inquiry is a fire, when does that fire start? When the world talks about STEM education for the most part they talk around elementary teachers rather than to elementary school teachers. This should not…
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How Deductive Thinking Can Drive Student-Designed Research
Deductive Thinking Can Drive Student-Designed Research by Jane Healey, Ph.D. I specialize in an odd subject—research. I teach students to select a subject area, pick a topic, craft a question, design a prospectus, follow through on the plans, adapt to obstacles and “interesting” findings, organize results, and create an appropriate outcome that matches the content and…
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Redefining What It Means To Be Human In The Absence Of The Humanities
We increasingly need the humanities because technology requires us to know what information we need and the kinds of questions we should ask.
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Misunderstanding The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Framework
Assess the extent to which students, unprompted, use the strategies when reading new text before ‘releasing responsibility.’
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3 Ways Personal Learning Networks Are Evolving
The nature of Personal Learning Networks is evolving as the range of tools available to support them increases.
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A Learning Typology: 7 Ways We Come To Understand
7 Ways We Come To Understand by Stewart Hase, Heutagogy of Community Practice This typology is an attempt to redefine how we think of learning in the 21st century context. Current definitions of learning focus on performance rather than holistic growth, and on what the learner can do after a learning experience. Gagne is perhaps the most…
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Learning Theories: Jerome Bruner On The Scaffolding Of Learning
Bruner believed that when children start to learn new concepts, they need help from teachers and other adults in the form of active support.
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How Google Impacts The Way Students Think
By ignoring the phases of inquiry learning, premature Googlers often find the information they want rather than the information they need.
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Spreading Your Wings And Becoming A Connected Educator
Becoming a connected educator means plugging in, making it official, “unconferencing,” and connecting your class/school immediately.
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Education’s Curious Fascination With Uniformity
While decent, the adoption of a set of national standards for K-12 public schools doesn’t solve the challenges in mass compulsory education.
