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How To Fake A 21st Century Classroom

Creativity is a 21st-century teaching and learning currency–and the best way to make sure it happens is to give points for it.

Upgrading for me means a clean, fresh start. It’s about assessing what’s out there, removing what’s outdated, and investing in the future.

There are elements of play, leveling up, and a sense of mastery or achievement upon accomplishing each challenge.

Literacy / September 20, 2021 / Random

Strategies for using context clues in reading including word parts, definition–> explanation, examples, antonyms, and analogies.

Teachers are professionals and their ‘clients’ are children and their function is teaching and their craft is understanding.

Teachers are guides and coaches and content experts. A ‘post-progressive’ teacher would be empowered, not replaced.

Education / May 19, 2021 / Random

Wikipedia is a surprisingly useful tool for even formal educational research. The ‘References’ section on each page can be a gold mine.

Sugata Mitra showed that children could learn complex tasks in the absence of formal training, spurred on by curiosity and peer interest.

Genius requires one to reject convention in pursuit of something special through a mix of intelligence, creativity, mindset, and perseverance.

Can we design a school that’s more inherently sustainable? Our 7 principles of sustainable learning focus on to place, limits, scale, & more.

Education / May 2, 2020 / Random

Crows can remember individual humans for a long time, and even communicate how to identify them to their group.

Teaching / March 15, 2019 / Random

By engaging your students with works of art, you can help them see the world while teaching them to value diverse perspectives.