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 [...]
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Posted 18 January 2010
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Also tagged: Alice in Chains, CATEC, Crozet Elementary School, CTE, Digital fabrication, Education reform, G'n'R, Glee, Kenny Rogers, Lab school, Masonry, Mike Doughty, School art, School budget, School mural, STEM, Student mentoring, Sue Sylvester, Summer school, The Gambler, The Muppets
[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 [...]
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Posted 14 January 2010
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Also tagged: Authentic learning, Authentic work, Brian Foy, charity: water, Community service, Digital citizenship, DoGood, Education reform, Educators give, FaceBook, Foyble.com, Haiti earthquake 2010, Instructional technology, Jack King, Meaning making, Northfork Center for Servant Leadership, Relevance, Service learning curriculum, Skype, Social media curriculum, Student blogging
[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 [...]
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Posted 09 January 2010
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Also tagged: Alternative certification, Alternative licensure, Crazy pedagogy, Education reform, Local authority, School art, School calendar, Shelly Blake-Plock, STEM, STEM & agriculture, STEM & the arts, Teach Paperless, Teacher certification, Teacher licensure
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 [...]
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Posted 02 January 2010
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Also tagged: 2010, Authentic learning, Authentic work, Book challenge policy, Career & Technical Education, e-Reader, Edmodo, Flexbook, Inquiry by RSS, Instructional technology, Karin Perry, Laura Oldham, Magic 8-Ball, NCLB, Patacritical Demon, Predictions, RttT, Skype, Social media, Social reading, SpecLab, Teacher evaluation, Teacher pay, The Educational Optimists, TwitterKids of Tanzania, Website challenge policy
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. [...]
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Posted 04 August 2009
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Also tagged: Authentic engagement, Authentic work, Charlotte Wellen, Choice Theory, High School, Instructional technology, Meaning making, Murray High School, NBCT, Quality Schools, Relevance, William Glasser
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 [...]
