every person is a learner and everyone is a teacher
Posted in Curriculum and Academics on Dec 3rd, 2007
It’s time to pause and take a clear-eyed look at an evolving and powerful determinant of what students are being taught in American public schools. This time, instead of filtering curricula through a lens of high stakes state exams, NAEP and other testing barometers, we need to look at societal norms and realities, and examine […]
Posted in School Climate on Nov 27th, 2007
What has happened to school in our society? It has become something to be endured, seemingly by both students and teachers, in many cases. We recoil from measuring success by test scores, but lack consensus on how to prepare our students to succeed in today’s global society. Research tells us that if learning is “joyful, […]
Posted in School Climate on Nov 3rd, 2007
Dr. Seuss saw it coming. Before his death in 1991, he was trying to write a book that would be a tribute to teachers, a story in celebration of individuality and creative thinking. In the last book credited to his genius, Hooray for Diffendoofer Day, readers come to know Miss Bonkers, who teaches her students […]
Posted in Technology in Education on Nov 2nd, 2007
We’re entering an era of cognitive externalization. We’re in the midst of a technology revolution that is outsourcing our need to remember everyday information. Even some of our decision-making responsibilities have been lifted in surreptitious ways.
Most people believe that the main transformative innovation of the information age was that it allowed us to know a […]
