[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 [...]
Here is today’s leading #edchat question:
How does the internet change the role of content and prior knowledge?
It doesn’t. Kids still need a personal stake in both to create meaning. While everyone can learn content and has prior-knowledge, school-valued content and prior knowledge remain commodities that some have and some do not. I would further [...]
When a student asks me a question, I try to answer with a question. Call it Socratic Method Lite.
However, there’s one question I keep answering over and over again, and I need to stop. Whenever a student asks me, “Why does this matter?”, I’m ready with one of three flavors of [...]
Kyle Pace posted a challenge during last night’s #edchat on encouraging teachers to adapt and change in response to the needs of today’s students.
It sent me thinking in a new direction about teacher evaluation as practiced by us teachers.
Apart from formal teacher evaluation, we evaluate one another all the time. We evaluate ourselves against [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about authentic audiences for my students’ work. Most often, a teacher is the immediate audience, though not always an authentic one. Parents, too, are an traditional audience for student work, but their authenticity waxes and wanes with their children’s relationships with them. Because of communications technology [...]
