Yesterday, the president spoke on education: Whether created by parents and teachers or community and civic leaders, charter schools serve as incubators of innovation in neighborhoods across our country. These institutions give educators the freedom to cultivate new teaching models and develop creative methods to meet students’ needs. This unique flexibility is matched by strong …
It’s hard when you read this: With the rise of technology, the democratization of information, and emerging platforms that allow anyone to teach and learn anytime, anywhere, it would be easy to say that things are looking grim for thetraditional teacher (see last Friday’s post). And then you talk to teachers who are so busy setting …
Some good insights: Education obviously is the most powerful thing in the world. And yet the old Mark Twain chestnut — “I never let school get in the way of my education” — speaks to the core of my own thinking regarding education. the real learning requires lots and lots of doing,not just listening. One …
Now this is connected learning: What I really hope that they will take from this process is the ability to navigate their minds around the world in the future — to be able to recall Iran is bordered by Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq when these countries continue to influence world events over the next decade. …
Teaching isn’t about a linear train ride starting the year at one place and reaching your destination by May with station stops of assessment along the way. There are days that your students look at you and say: I don’t know that word. I’ve never seen that word. Learning is organic and dynamic and unpredictable. …
As students and teachers around SC are reviewing for PASS testing, Harvard and MIT are revising what education is: An organization established by MIT and Harvard University that will develop an open-source technology platform to deliver online courses. EdX will support Harvard and MIT faculty in conducting research on teaching and learning on campus through …
As much as schools are modeled after businesses, I haven’t heard as many conversations about the developing, real competition of the the open source classes that are exploding across the Internet. Instead, schools are having conversations about making baby steps to the door of change to perhaps peak through, but certainly not to open it …
“Let’s just pretend,” is how I started my presentation two weeks ago in my Life and Work of the Minister class. I decided to start with that because my book was about considering a change in your ministry position. For some reason, it’s almost impossible for us, as adults, to talk reasonably through the ideas …
Happy 1 year old Birthday, iPad! I remember because I bought my iPad in April last year (when I actually got a tax refund…being a teacher without a classroom gets pretty expensive come April 17!). I am surprised at how many of the apps I have been using since day 1 and use almost daily. …
Teachers are joining forces and uniting their voices: The high-stakes testing era started with the advent of No Child Left Behind in 2002, and though NCLB has largely been discredited, the Obama administration’s policies have expanded the use of test scores as assessment tools not only for students, but also for teachers and principals. Many …
