The Two Minds Of An Educator
The need to be rational collides with the enormous complexity and scale of the circumstances teachers face.
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How Disruption Innovation in Education Creates Lasting Change
One goal for disruption in education could be the ongoing emergence of new ideas–new learning models, content, new strategies and thinking.
Why So Many Students Think They Dislike Reading
Reading is personal but we often focus on the mechanics instead of the people and the strategies instead of the living and breathing happening around us.
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers
Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.
Here’s What Students Do Better Than Teachers
Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.
12 Barriers To Innovation In Education
While funding one of several barriers to innovation in education, failures of communication and imagination might be more significant.
Classroom Of The Future: Shifts To Move Tomorrow’s Learning To Today
Shifts to create the classroom of the future include a shift from academic standards to learning networks and single modalities to blended.
The Most Important Question Every Assessment Should Answer
Whether a formal test or an informal observation, the most important question every assessment should answer is, ‘What now?’
12 Myths About Project-Based Learning
Among the most pervasive myths about project-based learning is that students ‘doing projects’ equates to students learning through PBL.
30 Universal Strategies For Critical Learning
From making an observation and drawing a conclusion to forming and improving a question, here are 27 strategies for critical learning.
4 Stages Of Edtech Integration From A Student Perspective
Mobile technology erodes the traditional classroom. Truly ‘mobile’ learners should disrupt non-flexible curriculum.
What Is The Purpose Of School?
How much of your intelligence, your affection, your skill, and your pride is employed in your work? What are its ecological and social costs?