I loved the variety of experiences last night’s panelists brought to their EduCon discussion about why innovation matters. The panelists were
Matt Berg – a community-project leader working in Africa.
Aaron Gross – a animal farming ethicist .
Neeru Paharia – a costumer behaviorist working at Harvard.
Trung Le – a learning space designer working for Canon.
Stanford Thompson – [...]
I believe in 1:1 learning. I also acknowledge the difficulty inherent in differentiating instruction for multiple classes of 30+ students a day. I envision a school system in which students learn to take ownership of their work and acquire essential skills and understandings through self-directed curricula. I think we need to scale up models [...]
You know that song, “The Gambler?” I love that song. I loved listening to it in between G’n’R and Alice in Chains before high school football games. I love it when Kenny Rogers sings it. I love it when Mike Doughty sings it. Please comment below and tell me who [...]
[Author's note: I love Foyble.com and its potential to add relevance and voice to students' community service. I greatly appreciate the opportunities I have to work with Foyble.com, but I am in no way compensated by the site.]
Monday night I Skyped with Brian Foy (@Foyble_org), a co-founder of Foyble.com, and Jack King (@drjackking), founder [...]
[Author's note: Thanks for this post's inspiration go to Shelley Blake-Plock (@teachpaperless) of Teach Paperless fame for his crazy stuff challenge, as well as to those who have already commented!]
Invert & Green the School Calendar
First, let’s invert the school calendar to promote sustainable food projects and maintain alternatives to food monocultures. If [...]
My sources say these predictions for 2010 are pretty sound. Network macronodes will ditch the hubs and spokes and explode into clouds as learners carry new learning with them from opportunity to opportunity.
Social reading
I want synched e-readers with color screens and robust tablet features for annotation and audio/visual mark-up, and I want them licensed [...]
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 [...]
[Editor's note: I've been extremely fortunate in being able to speak and msg with several pre-service teachers this Fall. Each and every one of them has helped me better articulate my beliefs and practices. They certainly are colleagues and a great addition to any PLN. This post goes out to all pre-service teachers [...]
I’m very grateful to be able to share with you the work going on at Murray High School in Charlottesville, Virginia. Murray High School is “the world’s first Glasser Quality Public High School.” The school uses William Glasser’s Choice Theory and Quality Schools framework to re-engage students with the joy of learning. [...]
Our first federal Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra, sent a video message to attendees of the recent EduStat University gathering in Charlotesville, VA. I’ve mentioned the video via Twitter (@classroots) and in “Reform on Learning’s Terms,” a recent post at The Edurati Review. I want to share the video here because its message so helped [...]
Chad teaches humanities at a charter school and blogs on reforming classroom practice and democratic education.
