I’m learning the basics of javascript and how it works with html5 so I can be useful to students interested in making their own web pages and programs. I’m using Run, Sandwich, Run! as an excuse to make a random sandwich, sandwich death, and sandwich distance-traveled generator as a toy. It’s not much of a [...]
This week we held our second Expo Night of the year. I am always caught by surprise by how much fun we have preparing for the event. Everyone spends the day hard at work on something – kids who finish their projects, reflections, and displays early often wind up helping others or setting up our [...]
Run, Sandwich, Run! is a platformer in which you play a sandwich running from its predators. You wake up in a sandwich shop or a street-food cart or truck and begin running from your maker and his or her customers. As you run further and further away, other people and animals catch your scent and [...]
I don’t remember the restaurant, but I remember the meal – something like a cheeseburger and a basket of fries. The decor I remember reminds me of Ground Round, but I don’t think we ate in town that night. We went further out for some reason.
I was somewhere in the 8th grade – or at [...]
Out past the printed word are dozens of modes of expression available to our students. Just as school devalues play, it devalues the accumulation of unsanctioned knowledge and “critical” thought. Standards and scores are deck chairs. Moreover, reading and writing – perhaps, one day, even as embodied by coding – will all be done through [...]
[Author's note: I'm no Junot Diaz, but I'm not going to apologize for the few instances of non-institutional language below, either. Read on at your own risk.]
So let me first say, “Brava,” to the foundations, labs, organizations, and educators of all sorts who shared their walk on/walk out work at #DML2012. I think it’s unabashedly [...]
DML 2012 feels – to me – a lot like EduCon. Both conferences attract a tribe. Both tribes talk about democracy, inclusion, and diversification in both education and their own memberships. I think EduCon is further along in the way it structures sessions – there’s a lot of paneling going on here which is strange [...]
Hello. My name is Chad Sansing. I teach humanities at a Virginia charter school and blog about transforming classroom practice and public education.
I’ve been a gamer ever since Dad got the Nintendo Entertainment System for his 40th birthday. I can’t seem to shake the controller out of my hand.
I’ve been trying to be the teacher [...]
While I don’t think digital learning happens on any one day or in any one way, I am glad to have this opportunity to see so much student work and to reflect purposefully on the role digital tools can play in learning. And that’s the most eerily NCLB-like thing I will ever say. Ever.
Here’s a [...]
I left Philadelphia tired from dreaming, full of intuitions. Like Ed Tom says at the end of No Country For Old Men:
The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night, goin through this pass in the mountains. It was [...]
Chad teaches humanities at a charter school and blogs on reforming classroom practice and democratic education.
