To continue last year’s goal-setting and teamwork practice with New Super Mario Bros Wii, this year we’re going to mash up Mario Kart and cycling teams.
Last year we used a lives-lost-per-level ratio to determine which teams of players were most efficient at preserving one another’s lives. Teams with more fluent players were sometimes at an [...]
[Author's note: last night's #edchat gave me the opportunity to frame my beliefs about #edreform, so I thought I would compile and share them here.]
#edchat #edreform suspects that happy edu-entrepreneurs & innovators will stick around & benefit stdnts; unhappy ones will go & be shunned
#edchat #edreform asks why we don’t embrace structures & create jobs [...]
My brain itches.
I’m hitting the wall separating what I saw and what I see. I need to pull an Inception and start dreaming the wall and walking on it instead of familiar ground.
I’m looping with our school’s inaugural class for the third straight year. I feel a desperate need to get it right. I [...]
So, the whole pitch idea and citizen-artist project a moving along okay. We’ve started with lots of interactive-notebook-like visualizations of concepts and terms related to citizenship and some initial analysis of Jacob Lawrence’s life and work. I think maybe this project will take longer than I thought and become more episodic. For example, every Friday [...]
Chad teaches humanities at a charter school and blogs on reforming classroom practice and democratic education.
